Pam Relph

Pam Relph

Pam Relph with 2012 Summer Paralympics gold medal
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Paralympic rowing
Summer Paralympic Games
	2012 London	LTA coxed fours
	2016 Rio	LTA coxed fours
World Rowing Championships
	2011 Bled	LTA coxed fours
	2013 Chungju	LTA coxed fours
	2014 Amsterdam	LTA coxed fours
	2015 Aiguebelette	LTA coxed fours

Pamela Lillian Relph MBE (born 14 November 1989) is a British adaptive rower who won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics, thus becoming the first double gold medallist in Paralympic rowing.

Relph was born on 14 November 1989 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.

She attended the Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College on an Army scholarship and planned to join the Royal Engineers as an Engineering Officer. Her army career was ended by arthritis. She studied at the University of Birmingham and graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics.

She is the sister of Monica Relph, GB Women's Senior rowing Squad member. The sisters were the first to compete for Great Britain in a World Rowing Championships at Chunju, South Korea in August 2013, when Monica rowed in the GB Women's Quad.

Relph was introduced to the sport of rowing in August 2010 by her older sister, who had rowed internationally for Great Britain. In November 2010 she finished second in the British Indoor Rowing Championships.

In 2011 she competed at the at World Rowing Championships held at Lake Bled, Bled, Slovenia. She won the gold medal in the Legs Trunk and Arms mixed Coxed Four (LTAMix4+) event alongside crewmates Naomi Riches, David Smith, James Roe and Lily van den Broecke, the cox. They completed the one kilometre course in a time of three minutes, 27.10 seconds, finishing nearly five seconds ahead of the second placed Canadian boat. The result meant that Great Britain qualified a boat for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. The crew repeated their gold medal result at the Munich World Cup event in 2012.

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