Katherine Grainger

Katherine Grainger

Katherine Grainger MBE (born 11 December 1975 in Glasgow) is a Scottish rower.

Her family moved to Netherley, Aberdeenshire and Katherine represents Aberdeen in rowing events. She trained on the River Dee and this has the kudos of being the only river she has fallen into whilst rowing!

She is a three time Olympic silver medalist. She first won silver at Sydney in 2000 in the woman's quadruple sculls with Guin Batten, Gillian Lindsay and Miriam Batten losing to a German team. Four years later in Athens in 2004, She won silver again when she took part in the coxless pairs with Cath Bishop losing to Georgeta Damian and
Viorica Susanu of Romania. She returned to the quadruple sculls in Beijing 2008 when she won her third silver with Annie Vernon, Debbie Flood and Frances Houghton narrowly losing to China after taking the lead for some of the race.

Grainger has also won five medals at World Championships. The first of these was a bronze in 1997 in the eight, then a gold with Bishop in 2003, a gold in 2005 with the quadruple scull, with Houghton, Sarah Winckless, and Rebecca Romero, and in 2006 her quadruple scull were promoted to gold following a drugs test on the winning Russian crew. This quad had Debbie Flood instead of Romero, who had retired after the 2005 world championships. Another gold came in 2007, again in the quadruple sculls, with Annie Vernon replacing the injured Sarah Winkless.

She has also won the Rowing World Cup in the Quadruple Scull in 2005, 2006, and 2007.

Grainger has an Honours law degree from Edinburgh University, a Master of Philosophy degree in Medical Law from Glasgow University and is currently studying for a PhD in law at King's College London.

She took up Rowing at the University of Edinburgh in 1993 and was President of the Edinburgh University Boat Club in 1996/97. She was elected the Edinburgh University Sports Union's female athlete of the winner (Eva Bailey Cup) in 1995/96 and 1996/97 and was inducted to the University's Sports Hall of Fame on the 29th of May 2008.In July 2008 Katherine appears in the BBC TWO cooking show Chinese Food Made Easy with Ching He Huang.In the show Ching teaches her how to cook a healthy version of sweet and sour pork.The show attracted 2.9 million viewers at a share of 13% that night.She was elected as Honorary President of the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association in November 2005.

She was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on 17 June 2006.

External links

*British Olympic Association [http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=1412 profile]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/chinesefoodmadeeasy/recipes BBC TWO]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/08/tvratings.bbc The Guardian tvratings]


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