Imogen Grant Explained

Imogen Grant
Nationality:British
Birth Date:26 February 1996
Birth Place:Cambridge, England
Height:1.68 m
Country:Great Britain
Sport:Rowing
Event:Lightweight double sculls
Education:Trinity College, Cambridge

Imogen Daisy Grant (born 26 February 1996) is a British lightweight world and Olympic champion rower.

Early Life

Grant was brought up in Bar Hill, Cambridge where she attended The Perse School for Girls before studying medicine at Trinity College Cambridge.[1]

Rowing

Grant won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in the lightweight single sculls[2] and the following year she won another bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria but this time as part of the lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.[3]

In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the lightweight double sculls in Varese, Italy.[4]

With the Cambridge squad, she won the 2022 Oxford–Cambridge University Boat Race.

At the 2022 World Cup III regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, she won gold and set a new world's best time in women's lightweight singles of 7:23.36.[5]

She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships[6] and the 2022 World Rowing Championships.[7]

At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.[8]

Olympic gold medal

At the 2024 Summer Olympics Grant and Emily Craig won the gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls, the final time that the event was held at the Olympic Games.[9]

Other

Grant has a degree in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Medicine, and master's degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of Cambridge.[10] She is starting a career as a medical doctor in August 2024.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Who is Imogen Grant? The Cambridge born and bred rower representing her city. Cambridge News . 2 August 2024.
  2. Web site: 2018 World Championship results. World Rowing.
  3. http://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2019_1/ROWWSCULL2-L----------FNL-000100--_C73.pdf 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships results
  4. Web site: Women's Lightweight Double Sculls Final A (Final). World Rowing. 11 June 2021.
  5. Web site: 2022 World Cup III results. World Rowing. 15 July 2022.
  6. News: Woods . Mark . British rowing bounces back with four golds in European Championships . . 13 August 2022 . 25 September 2022 .
  7. News: World Rowing Championships: GB win four golds on penultimate day . . 24 September 2022 . 25 September 2022 .
  8. Web site: Rowing - World Championships - 2023 . The Sports.org . 18 September 2023.
  9. Web site: Craig & Grant cruise to gold after men win silver . BBC Sport . 2 August 2024.
  10. Web site: GRANT Imogen.
  11. Web site: Britain’s golden rowers crush the competition… now one of them is off to be a doctor. Daily Telegraph. 2 August 2024.