Diana Bishop (rower)
{{short description|British rower}}
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| nationality = British
| sport = Rowing
| club = Wallingford RC
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|9|28|df=yes}}
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Diana Bishop ({{nee}} Preston born 28 September 1947) is a retired British rower who competed for Great Britain at the 1976 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bi/diana-bishop-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040546/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bi/diana-bishop-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Diana Bishop Olympic Results |accessdate=26 August 2018}}
Rowing career
Bishop won the single sculls and the quadruple sculls, rowing for the Wallingford Rowing Club, at the 1975 National Rowing Championships.{{cite web|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS101678325/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=c81d6cd4|title=Railton, Jim. "Rowing." Times, 21 July 1975, p. 6|website=Times Digital Archives}}{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/year-by-year/1975-2/|title=NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (18-20 JULY)|website=Rowing Story}} This led to selection for the British lightweight single scull boat at the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, she finished 12th overall after a sixth-place finish in the B final.{{cite news |url= https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS118324513/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=92051b4c |last=Railton |first=Jim |title=Rowing |work=The Times |date=1 September 1975 |page=7|via=Times Digital Archives}}
In 1976 she was chosen for Great Britain in the women's coxed four event with Pauline Bird-Hart, Clare Grove, Gillian Webb and Pauline Wright. The crew finished in eighth place.{{cite web|url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/37140|title=Diana Bishop|website=Olympedia}}
Personal life
She married fellow international rower Thomas Bishop.
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Category:British female rowers
Category:Olympic rowers for Great Britain
Category:Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
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