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Anna Corderoy
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1994-12-28) 28 December 1994 (age 29)
Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Alma materSt Catherine's College, Oxford
Sport
Country Great Britain
SportRowing (sport) & Adaptive rowing
University teamOxford University Women's Lightweight Rowing Club
ClubMolesey Boat Club
Achievements and titles
Personal best2017 PR3 4+ World Record: 6:55.70
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sarasota 4+ Mixed PR3

Anna Corderoy (born 28 December 1994) is a British rowing coxswain.

Early life

Corderoy attended Stroud High School in Gloucestershire, UK, where she was Head Girl. In 2013 she went up to the University of Oxford to read for a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature at St Catherine's College[1].

Rowing

Corderoy started rowing while an undergraduate at Oxford, where she quickly realised that she was better suited to coxing than rowing. She joined the Oxford University Women's Lightweight Rowing Club for the 2014/15 season, where she coxed the reserve boat, Tethys, in the 2015 Henley Boat Races. Returning for the 2015/16 season she became cox of the Blue boat that beat Cambridge at the 2016 Henley Boat Race. After graduation, Corderoy moved to London to start training as a solicitor. She joined Molesey Boat Club and was invited to join the GB Para-Rowing Squad.

Her first international event was the Gavirate International Regatta in Italy in 2017, where she won as part of the PR3 (formerly LTA) mixed coxed four, comprising Emma Tod, Grace Clough, James Fox, Oliver Stanhope and Anna Corderoy.[2][3]. They finished 17 seconds ahead of the Ukrainian boat in the first final of the day. The PR3 crew repeated this performance on Sunday, with Rob Sargent replacing Stanhope's in the lineup; with an equally convincing margin to Ukraine in second place. [4]

At the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota in Florida, Corderoy coxed the PR3 crew of Grace Clough, Giedre Rakauskaite, James Fox and Oliver Stanhope, where they won the gold medal, posting a world record time 6 minutes 55.7 seconds [5][6][7][8]

References

  1. ^ "St Catherine's, Oxford". Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Three wins for Great Britain Para-rowers at Gavirate International Regatta - British Rowing". 15 May 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Para-rowers test 2000m in Gavirate - worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  4. ^ "The year that was... para-rowing - worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  5. ^ 2017 World Rowing Championships – PR3 Mixed coxed four
  6. ^ "World Rowing Championships: Four medals for Britain as Para crew take gold". 30 September 2017 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  7. ^ "Events - worldrowing.com". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  8. ^ "ROWING: Cox Corderoy steers GB Paralympic crew home". Western Telegraph. Retrieved 2 July 2018.