Katherine Grainger

About Katherine Grainger

Katherine Grainger CBE is a British rower, 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, three-time Olympic silver medalist and six-time World Champion.She is currently Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, as of March 2015.

Olympics:

Grainger first won silver at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 in the woman's Quadruple Sculls. In Athens in 2004 she won silver in the coxless pairs. In Beijing 2008 she won her third silver, again in the Quadruple Sculls.

At the London Olympics 2012, Anna Watkins and Grainger broke the Olympic record as they qualified for the Double Sculls final. They then went on to win the gold medal. With four Olympic medals, Grainger shares the record as Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian with Rebecca Adlington.

Championships:

Grainger has won eight medals at World Championships between 1997 and 2011.

The first of these was a bronze in 1997 in the eight, then a gold with Bishop in 2003, a gold in 2005 with the quadruple scull, with Houghton, Sarah Winckless, and Rebecca Romero, and in 2006 her quadruple scull were promoted to gold following a drugs test on the winning Russian crew. 

World Cup:

She has also won the Rowing World Cup in the Quadruple Sculls in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010 and the Double Sculls in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

GB Rowing Team Senior Final Trials Results:

2015 - 2nd, Single Scull

2012 – 1st, Single Scull

2011 – 2nd, Single Scull

2004–2010 – 1st, Single Scull

2001 – 1st, Double Scull

1998 – 1st, Single Scull

Katherine Grainger Achievements

Honours:

• She was elected President of the Edinburgh University Boat Club in 1996/97. She was elected the Edinburgh University Sports Union's female athlete of the winner (Eva Bailey Cup) in 1995/96 and 1996/97 and was inducted to the University's Sports Hall of Fame on 29 May 2008.
  
• She was elected as Honorary President of the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association in November 2005, and a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta in 2008, only the third rower to be elected while still competing.
  
• She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours
  
• She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing.
  
• In March 2013, she became patron of the National Coastwatch Institution.
  
• On 23 July 2013, Grainger was awarded a PhD in Law from King's College London (KCL) and was subsequently made a fellow at the university.
  
• On 20 March 2015 Grainger was welcomed as the fourth Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University in a ceremony joined by her three predecessors Shami Chakrabarti CBE, Jon Snow and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.