Helen Glover (rower)

Helen Glover, MBE ( born June 17, 1986 in Truro, Cornwall) is a British rower and Olympic champion in 2012 in the twin without coxswain.

Career

Glover is the daughter of a rugby player, she herself played field hockey as a youth and was active as a cross runner. With the rowing began in 2008 during her training as a physical education teacher. They rowed for the Minerva Rowing Club in Bath.

Her first success as a rower was the victory in 2009 in one at the Henley Royal Regatta. Since 2010, it starts with Heather Stanning in two without coxswain. 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 Helen Glover was appointed to the Order of the British Empire.

The World Rowing Championships 2013 in Chungju, they won with Polly Swann the two without coxswain.