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Katherine Grainger
Dame Katherine Jane Grainger is a former British rowing athlete and currently President of UK Sports. With 5 Olympic medals, she is the UK's most decorated female Olympic athlete. She is a gold medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a four-time Olympic silver medalist and a six-time world champion. She was Rector of Oxford Brookes University from 2015-2020 and is currently Rector of the University of Glasgow. Grainger won silver at the 2000 Sydney Olympics for the first time in four women yachting. In Athens 2004, she won a silver award for coxless doubles. In Beijing in 2008, she won her third silver medal, again in the four-man boat race. At the London 2012 Olympics, Anna Watkins and Grainger broke the Olympic record by completing the final round in the marina, before winning a gold medal. Grainger won a silver medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics with Victoria Thornley, after a two-year hiatus. Grainger won eight World Championship medals from 1997 to 2011
CountryUnited Kingdom
SportWomen's rowing
Event(s)Double Sculls
College teamEdinburgh University Boat Club
ClubSt Andrew Boat Club
Coached byPaul Thompson

About Katherine Grainger

Katherine Grainger
Katherine Grainger

Rower Katherine Grainger was born on November 12, 1975 in Scotland (She's 48 years old now).

Rower who earned a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London after earning silver medals in 2000, 2004, and 2008.

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Katherine Grainger before becoming famous

Katherine Grainger was born in the Zodiac sign Scorpio (The Scorpion), and 1975 is also the year of Rabbit (兔) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She learned to row on the River Dee and competed in her first World Championship in 1997 in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France, where her team won bronze.

Achievement of Katherine Grainger

Her four Olympic medals were the most of any British Olympian, and her several world championships made her the country's most successful rower.

Katherine Grainger's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Katherine Grainger
Katherine Grainger

She was born in the Scottish city of Glasgow.

Katherine Grainger Collabed with

Only Swimmer Rebecca Adlington has more medals than her among British female Olympians.

Katherine Grainger Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Katherine Grainger updated on March 22 2023.