Frances Houghton

Julia Frances Houghton (born 19 September 1980 in Oxford) is a British rower. She won by 2011 four world titles and two Olympic silver medals.

Career

Houghton began in 1993 with the rowing, 1998, she reached the third time a final at the Junior World Championships and won her first medal when she was with Debbie Flood bronze in the double sculls. In the 2000 Olympics she won with Sarah Winckless ninth place in the double sculls. 2001 Houghton won in Vienna together with Debbie Flood their first World Cup regatta at the World Rowing Championships in 2001 she won with Flood seventh place in the double sculls and also sat in sixth-placed British eighth. In 2002 she reached the fourth place along with Flood at the World Championships, in 2003, she finished fourth with the quadruple sculls. At the Olympic Games 2004, the British quadruple sculls with Alison Mowbray, Debbie Flood, Frances Houghton and Rebecca Romero won the silver medal behind the German boat.

In the following three years the British sculls won each of the world championship: 2005 Rebecca Romero, Sarah Winckless, Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger, 2006, Debbie Flood, Sarah Winckless, Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger and 2007 with Annie Vernon, Debbie Flood, Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger. In the Olympic season in 2008 the boat remained unchanged personnel, but only won the first World Cup race in Lucerne won the Chinese women before the Americans and the British are coming. In the Olympic regatta in Beijing, the Chinese women were able to win on home soil. After a break from competition in 2009 Frances Houghton returned in 2010 back in the quadruple sculls, who won the world title in the occupation of Debbie Flood, Beth Rodford, Frances Houghton and Annie Vernon.

Frances Houghton came in 2003 with a BA in Hispanic Studies at King's College London.

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