Malindi Myers
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{{MedalSport | Women's rowing }}
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{{MedalCompetition |World Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2000 Zagreb|LW2-}}
{{MedalSilver| 1996 Glasgow|LW4-}}
{{MedalSilver| 1999 St. Catharines|LW2-}}
{{MedalBronze| 1997 Aiguebelette-le-Lac|LW2-}}
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Malindi Myers (born 3 October 1970) is a British civil servant and former international rower.
Rowing career
Myers rowed for Durham University Boat Club while studying economics.{{cite web |title=Catalogue of Durham University Records: Associations and Societies - DU Boat Club |url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ark/32150_s19w0323082.xml#UNDall-1462 |website=Durham University Library |access-date=16 September 2018 |language=en}} After winning two golds at the 1996 National Championships in the coxless four and eights{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/year-by-year/1996-olympic-games-and-world-rowing-championships/|title=NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (1996)|website=Rowing Story}} she was part of the British crew that won silver in the Lightweight Women's Coxless Four at the 1996 World Rowing Championships.{{cite web |title=Malindi MYERS - worldrowing.com |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/7737/results/malindi-myers |website=World Rowing |access-date=14 September 2018}}
She won further medals at both the 1997 World Rowing Championships and the 1999 World Rowing Championships before becoming a World Champion at the 2000 World Rowing Championships, winning the Lightweight Women's Coxless Pair alongside Miriam Taylor.{{cite web |last1=Page |first1=Geoffrey |title=Rowing: Britain recover with double gold |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/rowing/4764944/Rowing-Britain-recover-with-double-gold.html |website=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=14 September 2018 |date=6 August 2000}}
Economist
Following a Masters in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics she joined HM Treasury as a junior economist after university, and later took time out to prepare for the 1996 World Rowing Championships.{{cite web |title=GES Career Stories |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ges-career-stories |website=GOV.UK |access-date=14 September 2018 |language=en}}
After the 1996 World Championships she returned to the Civil Service and then to the European Commission on a secondment scheme. She secured a job with the Government Economic Service before joining the Office for National Statistics.
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Category:English female rowers
Category:21st-century British civil servants
Category:Durham University Boat Club rowers
Category:Alumni of Durham University
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
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