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'''Helen Glover''' (born 17 June 1986) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] professional, Olympic Gold medal-winning [[Rowing (sport)|rower]] and a member of the [[Great Britain]] Rowing Team.<ref name="british=rowing">{{cite web | title=Helen Glover |url=http://www.britishrowing.org/gb-rowing-team/biographies/helen-glover | publisher=[[British Rowing]] | work=Biographies | accessdate=1 August 2012}}</ref> |
'''Helen Glover''' (born 17 June 1986) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] professional, Olympic Gold medal-winning [[Rowing (sport)|rower]] and a member of the [[Great Britain]] Rowing Team.<ref name="british=rowing">{{cite web | title=Helen Glover |url=http://www.britishrowing.org/gb-rowing-team/biographies/helen-glover | publisher=[[British Rowing]] | work=Biographies | accessdate=1 August 2012}}</ref> |
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Helen Glover (born 17 June 1986) is a British professional, Olympic Gold medal-winning rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team.[1]
Early life
Glover was born in Truro, Cornwall, England, the daughter of former Cornwall rugby captain Jimmy Glover.[2]
Educated at Humphry Davy School in Penzance,[3] and Millfield School, Somerset, she has always participated in a variety of sports. As a junior she ran cross-country internationally, and was part of the England Satellite Squad for Hockey.[4]
Career
At University of Wales Institute, Cardiff she studied Sport and Exercise Science, and did a PGCE, intending to teach physical education to infant school children.
While teaching in Bath, Somerset, she started rowing in 2008 through the Sporting Giants scheme, and was placed on to GB Rowing Team's Start programme.[5] In 2009, she won a gold medal in the senior single scull at Women's Henley, and in 2010 came 3rd rowing for Reading University at the Women's Eights Head of the River Race.
After gaining Lottery funding and giving up her teaching job, she was paired with Heather Stanning.[5] The pair then gave a breakthrough performance in the women's coxless pairs in the 2010 World Cup Series, taking 9th place in Bled and 5th in Munich, but were unable to race at Lucerne due to Glover's illness. Coached by Robin Williams, at the 2010 World Rowing Championships they won a silver medal.
In 2011, Glover and Stanning won the British rowing trials. They then went on to become World cup winners, winning in both Munich and Lucerne regattas (beating the 2010 world champions in the process) and achieved a further silver medal in the 2011 World Championships in Bled, Slovenia.
On 1 August 2012 Glover and Stanning won the gold medal for the women's coxless pairs at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.[6][7] This was Team GB's first gold medal of London 2012, and a first ever Olympic gold medal for British women's rowing.[6][7] In light of this success Royal Mail painted a post box in Glover's home town of Penzance gold to commemorate the event. [8]
References
- ^ "Helen Glover". Biographies. British Rowing. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Helen Glover and Heather Stanning profiles: Team GB's gold medal winners". The Guardian. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Olympic gold rower Helen Glover's 'phenomenal talent'". BBC. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ "Helen Glover". London 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ^ a b Katherine Faulkner; Louise Eccles (August 1, 2012). "The very middle-class supergirls: Former head girl at Zara's boarding school will be in Helmand by the New Year and the woman who four years ago had never held an oar". Daily Mail. Mail Online. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
- ^ a b "Brilliant Glover and Stanning claim gold for GB". ESPN. 1 August 2012.
- ^ a b Barrett, Lawrence (1 August 2012). "Helen Glover & Heather Stanning enter Olympics history". BBC.
- ^ "Penzance post box painted gold for Olympian Helen Glover". BBC. 2 August 2012.
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- Living people
- People from Truro
- People educated at Millfield
- Alumni of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
- English schoolteachers
- English rowers
- Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers of Great Britain
- Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Female rowers
- English sportswomen