Heather Stanning

Heather Mary Stanning, MBE (born 26 January 1985 in Yeovil, Somerset ) is a British rower and Olympic champion in 2012 in the twin without coxswain.

Career

Stanning grew up as the daughter of members of the British Navy on in Scotland. She herself is a member of the Royal Artillery, which it indemnified in 2010 for training in view of the Olympic Games in 2012.

Along with Olivia Whitlam won Stanning at the 2007 U-23 World Championships. 2009 Stanning reached at the European Championships in seventh place in the eighth. Since 2010 she starts along with Helen Glover in two without. In the World Cup season 2010, the two reached the best result in fifth place in Munich, at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand in 2010 they won the silver medal behind the Kiwis Rebecca Scown and Juliette Haigh. 2011 won Glover and Stanning at the World Cup regatta in Munich and Lucerne, at the World Rowing Championships 2011 in Bled it again received silver behind Scown and Haigh.

2012 reached Glover and Stanning in all three World Cup regattas first goal and also in the Olympic final in front of a home crowd they won before the boats from Australia and New Zealand. So you won the first gold medal for the British team at the Olympics in London and the first Olympic gold medal for British rowers at all.

At the end of 2012 Heather Stanning was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire.