Juliet Thompson (rower)
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|12|20}}
| birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Juliet Thompson (born December 20, 1967) is an American rower{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/40517 |title=Juliet Thompson |work=Olympedia |access-date=March 3, 2021}} triathlete and coach. She competed in the women's eight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://worldrowing.com/2013/09/01/seoul-mates-return-to-korea-25-years-later/ |title=Seoul mates return to Korea – 25 years later |work=World Rowing |access-date=March 7, 2022}} She graduated from Harvard University and Stanford University.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/juliet-thompson-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418071156/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/juliet-thompson-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 18, 2020 |title=Juliet Thompson Olympic Results |access-date=September 10, 2018}} She also started numerous non-profit organisations and has worked as a community volunteer and a project manager.{{cite web|url=https://www.trainingpeaks.com/coach/triathlon-coach-juliet#about |title=Juliet Thompson Hochman |work=Training Peaks |access-date=March 7, 2022}}
Biography
Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1967, and grew up in New England.{{cite web|url=https://lifesportcoaching.com/coach-profile-juliet-thompson-hochman/ |title=Coach Profile |work=Life Sport Coaching |access-date=March 7, 2022}} While in high school, Thompson played field hockey, basketball and took up rowing. She competed at the World Rowing Junior Championships in 1984 in the eights, and the fours event at the 1987 World Rowing Championships. Thompson earned her B.S. in Chinese Studies at Harvard University in 1989, and her MBA at Stanford University in 1995.{{cite web|url=https://steelheadcoaching.com/juliet-hochman |title=Coach Juliet HOCHMAN |work=Steel Head Coaching |access-date=March 7, 2022}} After her marriage, she became known as Juliet Hochman or Juliet Thompson Hochman.
Thompson watched the US rowing team at the 1984 Summer Olympics on television, which inspired her to aim for Olympic selection herself.{{cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1988/9/14/juliet-thompson-begins-olympic-journey-pseattle-i/ |title=Juliet Thompson Begins Olympic Journey |work=The Crimson |access-date=March 7, 2022}} At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Thompson was the youngest member of the US rowing team that competed in the women's eight event, where they finished in sixth place.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/159156 |title=Eights, Women |work=Olympedia |access-date=March 7, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.harvardvarsityclub.org/article.html?aid=548 |title=Juliette Thompson Hochman '89 |work=Harvard Varsity Club |access-date=March 7, 2022}} She was inducted into the Harvard Hall of Fame in 1993.{{cite web|url=https://batwomenpdx.com/juliet-hochman |title=Juliet Hochman- Team Captain |work=Bat Women |access-date=March 7, 2022}}
Following her rowing career, Thompson started and ran numerous nonprofit programs around the world. She founded SCORE in South Africa to provide opportunities for black township children to participate in sport at the end of the apartheid era. Thompson worked for WorldTeach in Namibia and piloted a program for Mercy Corps supporting refugees on the China–North Korea border.{{cite web|url=https://hcoregon.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=382 |title=All I Really Need to Know I Learned in the Boathouse: Lessons learned in athletic competition applied to life |work=Harvard Club of Oregon |access-date=March 7, 2022}} She worked for Friends of the Children in Oregon and founded their new chapter in Boston. After taking time off to raise her two sons and support her husband's career in Oregon, Massachusetts and The Netherlands, Thompson worked as a Project Manager for several different companies in Portland, Oregon.
In 2017, Thompson turned her hand to triathlon racing and coaching and currently works for [https://www.lifesportcoaching.com LifeSport Coaching] in Canada, led by Lance Watson. Embracing triathlon as a second athletic career, Thompson is a World Champion at the half-ironman (70.3) distance as well as the sprint triathlon and sprint duathlon events. She is a multiple national champion and All American at a variety of distances.{{cite web|url=https://whyracingevents.com/blog/2020/03/01/juliet-hochman/ |title=What's Your Why? |work=Why Racing Events |access-date=March 7, 2022}}
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Category:American female rowers
Category:Olympic rowers for the United States
Category:Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Sportspeople from Louisville, Kentucky
Category:Harvard Crimson women's rowers