Rachel Hirst
{{short description|British rower}}
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| full_name = Rachel Clare Hirst
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| nationality = British
| sport = Rowing
| club = Trent Polytechnic
Nottinghamshire County RA
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|3|4|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Cheltenham, England
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Rachel Clare Hirst married name Rachel Stanhope{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/people/|title=People|website=Rowing Story}} (born 4 March 1965) is a former British rower who won a silver medal at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled, in the lightweight coxless four event and competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/rachel-hirst-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041758/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/rachel-hirst-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Rachel Hirst Olympic Results |accessdate=16 September 2018}}
Early life
She grew up in Flaxton, North Yorkshire.
Rowing career
She won the single sculls title rowing for Trent Polytechnic, at the 1986 National Championships{{cite web|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503057718/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=662d5d60|title=Railton, Jim. "Leander take Kingston with a late charge." Times, 21 July 1986, p. 28|website=Times Digital Archives}} and the following year she repeated the success but this time rowing for the Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association.{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/year-by-year/1987-world-rowing-championships/|title=National Championships (18-19 JULY 1987)|website=Rowing Story|accessdate=10 August 2020}} In 1989 she won the coxed four and lightweight coxless four national titles at the 1989 National Championships.{{cite web|url=https://rowingstory.com/year-by-year/1989-world-rowing-championships/|title=National Championships (14-16 JULY 1989)|website=Rowing Story}} and won a silver medal at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled.
She was selected to represent Great Britain in the women's eight event at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. The team which consisted of Hirst, Fiona Freckleton, Philippa Cross, Dot Blackie, Susan Smith, Kate Grose, Kareen Marwick, Katharine Brownlow and Alison Paterson finished in seventh place.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/37165|title=Biographical information|website=Olympedia}}
Personal life
She lived in West Bridgford.Nottingham Evening Post Monday 2 July 1990, page 25 She married rower Richard Stanhope on Saturday 10 October 1992 at St Lawrence's Church, Flaxton.Yorkshire Post Saturday 10 October 1992, page 22Yorkshire Post Monday 19 October 1992, page 16
References
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Category:Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
Category:British female rowers
Category:Olympic rowers for Great Britain
Category:People from Ryedale (district)
Category:People from West Bridgford
Category:Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics