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Dame Katherine Grainger
DBE
Grainger with her Olympic gold medal
Personal information
Birth name
Katherine Jane Grainger[1]
Nationality
[British]
Born
(1975-11-12) 12 November 1975 (age 48) Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh (LLB)
University of Glasgow (MPhil)
King's College London (PhD)[2]
Height
1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Website
katherinegrainger.com
Chancellor of University of Glasgow
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 June 2020
Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University
In office 20 March 2015 – 15 June 2020
Vice Chancellor
Alistair Fitt[3]
Preceded by
Shami Chakrabarti
Succeeded by
Paterson Joseph
Sport
Country
United Kingdom
Sport
Women's rowing
Event
Double Sculls
College team
Edinburgh University Boat Club
Club
St Andrew Boat Club
Coached by
Paul Thompson
Medal record
Representing Great Britain
Women's rowing
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Olympic Games
1
4
0
World Championships
6
1
1
European Championships
0
0
1
Total
7
5
2
Olympic Games
2012 London
Double sculls
2000 Sydney
Quadruple sculls
2004 Athens
Coxless pair
2008 Beijing
Quadruple sculls
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Double sculls
World Championships
2003 Milan
Coxless pair
2005 Gifu
Quadruple sculls
2006 Eton
Quadruple sculls
2007 Munich
Quadruple sculls
2010 Karapiro
Double sculls
2011 Bled
Double sculls
2009 Poznań
Single scull
1997 Aiguebelette
Eight
European Championships
2015 Poznan
Double sculls
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Dame Katherine Jane GraingerDBE (born 12 November 1975) is a British former rower and current Chair of UK Sport. She is a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion.[4] She served as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University between 2015 and 2020, and is currently Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.[5][6]
Grainger first won silver at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 in the woman's quadruple sculls. In Athens in 2004, she won silver in the coxless pairs. In Beijing 2008 she won her third silver, again in the quadruple sculls.
At the London Olympics 2012, Anna Watkins and Grainger broke the Olympic record as they qualified for the double sculls final, before winning the gold medal. Grainger won a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 with Victoria Thornley, after a two-year break from the sport. Grainger has won eight medals at the World Championship between 1997 and 2011.
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^"Oxford Brookes University makes Alistair Fitt v-c". Times Higher Education (THE). 23 January 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
^"Katherine GRAINGER". Worldrowing.com. 12 November 1975. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
^"Dame Katherine Grainger to stand down as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University - Oxford Brookes University". Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^"Olympian to become Glasgow university chancellor". BBC News. 9 March 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
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