Annabel Eyres Explained

Annabel Eyres
Full Name:Annabel Juliet Eyres
Nationality:British
Birth Date:4 February 1965
Birth Place:London, England
Education:City of London School for Girls
Bryanston School
Alma Mater:Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford
Height:183 cm[1]
Weight:70 kg
Other Interests:Artist, printmaking
Country:United Kingdom
Sport:Rowing
Club:Tideway Scullers School
Upper Thames RC
Universityteam:Oxford University Women's Boat Club
Pembroke College Boat Club (Oxford)
Worlds:1989 World Rowing Championships women's quadruple sculls;
1991 World Rowing Championships women's double sculls
Nationals:1990 British Rowing Championships, women's coxless pairs
Olympics:1992 Summer Olympics, women's double sculls

Annabel Juliet Eyres (born 4 February 1965) is a British international rower[2] and artist.

Annabel Eyres was educated at the City of London School for Girls in London and Bryanston School in Dorset. She then studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, where she was a student at Pembroke College. During this time, she rowed for the Pembroke College Boat Club and the Oxford University Women's Boat Club, competing in the Oxford and Cambridge Women's Boat Race. She also rowed for the Tideway Scullers School and the Upper Thames Rowing Club.

Eyres competed in the women's double sculls event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[3] She was part of the coxless pairs with Joanne Gough that won the national title rowing for the British squad at the 1990 National Championships.[4] She also completed in the 1989 World Rowing Championships women's quadruple sculls final and the 1991 World Rowing Championships women's double sculls final.

As well as rowing, Eyres has been an artist, producing prints and also paper cuts and collages, as well as painting, especially of rowing-related subjects.[5] [6] She helped form the company Rock the Boat, selling rowing-related items, including artworks.[7] She has exhibited regularly in London, including at the Riverside Gallery, and Oxford, including as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks.[8]

Annabel Eyres is married with a family.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Annabel Eyres . Rowing Story . 17 October 2020 .
  2. Web site: Annabel Eyres . . 17 October 2020 .
  3. Annabel Eyres Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041802/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ey/annabel-eyres-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 15 September 2018.
  4. Web site: National Championships (1990) . Rowing Story .
  5. Web site: Annabel Eyres . . London, UK . 17 October 2020 .
  6. Web site: Annabel Eyres Fine Art: Rowing Art . Rock the Boat . UK . 17 October 2020 .
  7. Web site: Rock the Boat . UK . 17 October 2020 .
  8. Web site: Annabel Eyres . . 17 October 2020 . 2020 .
  9. Web site: About Me . Annabel Eyres . Annabel . Eyres . 17 October 2020 .