Imogen Grant
{{short description|British rower}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Imogen Grant
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}}
| image = Imogen Grant Paris Olympics.jpg
| caption = Grant at the 2024 Summer Olympics
| full_name = Imogen Daisy Grant
| nationality = English
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|2|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Cambridge, England
| height = 1.68 m
| country = Great Britain
| sport = Rowing
| event = Lightweight double sculls
| club =
| education = Trinity College, Cambridge
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Women's rowing}}
{{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}}
{{MedalComp|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalGold|2024 Paris|Lwt double sculls}}
{{MedalComp|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2022 Račice|Lwt double sculls}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Belgrade|Lwt double sculls}}
{{MedalBronze|2018 Plovdiv|Lwt single sculls}}
{{MedalBronze|2019 Ottensheim|Lwt double sculls}}
{{MedalComp|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2022 Oberschleißheim|Lwt double sculls}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Bled|Lwt double sculls}}
{{MedalSilver|2021 Varese|Lwt double sculls}}
}}
Imogen Daisy Grant (born 26 February 1996) is a British lightweight world and Olympic champion rower.
Early life
Grant was brought up in Bar Hill, Cambridge, where she attended The Perse School for Girls before studying medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge.{{cite web |url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/sport/imogen-grant-boat-race-cambridge-14387676l |title=Who is Imogen Grant? The Cambridge born and bred rower representing her city |website=Cambridge News |access-date=2 August 2024}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Rowing
Grant won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in the lightweight single sculls{{cite web |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2018/ROWWSCULL1-L----------FNL-000100--_C73.pdf |title=2018 World Championship results |website=World Rowing |access-date=16 August 2020 |archive-date=14 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914203223/http://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2018/ROWWSCULL1-L----------FNL-000100--_C73.pdf |url-status=live}} and the following year she won another bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria but this time as part of the lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2019_1/ROWWSCULL2-L----------FNL-000100--_C73.pdf |title=2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships results |access-date=17 September 2019 |archive-date=31 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831132909/http://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2019_1/ROWWSCULL2-L----------FNL-000100--_C73.pdf |url-status=live}}
In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the lightweight double sculls in Varese, Italy.{{cite web |url=https://worldrowing.com/event/2021-european-rowing-championships/ |title=Women's Lightweight Double Sculls Final A (Final) |website=World Rowing |access-date=11 June 2021 |archive-date=19 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519074502/https://worldrowing.com/event/2021-european-rowing-championships/ |url-status=live}}
With the Cambridge squad, she won the 2022 Oxford–Cambridge University Boat Race.
At the 2022 World Cup III regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, she won gold and set a new world's best time in women's lightweight singles of 7:23.36.{{cite web |url=https://worldrowing.com/event/2022-world-rowing-cup-iii |title=2022 World Cup III results |website=World Rowing |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=10 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710144335/https://worldrowing.com/event/2022-world-rowing-cup-iii/ |url-status=live}}
She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships{{cite news |last=Woods |first=Mark |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/aug/13/british-rowing-bounces-back-with-four-golds-in-european-championships |title=British rowing bounces back with four golds in European Championships |work=The Guardian |date=13 August 2022 |accessdate=25 September 2022}} and the 2022 World Rowing Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/rowing/63021883 |title=World Rowing Championships: GB win four golds on penultimate day |work=BBC |date=24 September 2022 |accessdate=25 September 2022 |archive-date=25 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925054725/https://www.bbc.com/sport/rowing/63021883 |url-status=live}}
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.{{cite web |url=https://www.the-sports.org/rowing-world-championships-results-2023-men-epm110899.html |title=Rowing - World Championships - 2023 |website=The Sports.org |access-date=18 September 2023 |archive-date=18 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918151950/https://www.the-sports.org/rowing-world-championships-results-2023-men-epm110899.html |url-status=live}}
=Olympic gold medal=
At the 2024 Summer Olympics Grant and Emily Craig won the gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls, the final time that the event was held at the Olympic Games.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cm525enmz20o |title=Craig & Grant cruise to gold after men win silver |website=BBC Sport |access-date=2 August 2024 |archive-date=2 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240802111939/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cm525enmz20o |url-status=live}}
=MBE=
She was awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to rowing.{{cite news |last1=Hardy |first1=Ben |title=New Year Honours list for Oxfordshire in full for 2025 |url=https://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/24823679.new-year-honours-list-oxfordshire-full-2025/ |access-date=7 January 2025 |work=This is Oxfordshire |publisher=Newsquest Media Group}}
Other career
Grant has a degree in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Medicine, and master's degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of Cambridge.{{cite web |url=https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/imogen-grant_1901071 |title=GRANT Imogen |work=Paris 2024 Olympics}} She started a career as a medical doctor in August 2024.{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/08/02/imogen-grant-emily-craig-team-gb-rowing-doctor-olympics/ |title=Britain’s golden rowers crush the competition… now one of them is off to be a doctor |website=Daily Telegraph |date=2 August 2024 |access-date=26 November 2024 |archive-date=21 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240821113818/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2024/08/02/imogen-grant-emily-craig-team-gb-rowing-doctor-olympics/ |url-status=live}}
References
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External links
- {{World Rowing}}
- [https://www.britishrowing.org/athlete/imogen-grant/ Imogen Grant MBE] at British Rowing
- {{Team GB}}
- {{Olympics.com|imogen-grant}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{Instagram}}
{{Olympic champions – Women's lightweight double sculls}}
{{World champions – Lightweight women's double sculls}}
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Category:British female rowers
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic rowers for Great Britain
Category:Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:People educated at The Perse School
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:Sportspeople from Cambridge