Helen Glover

About Helen Glover

Helen Glover MBE is a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team.As of May 2015 she and her partner Heather Stanning are the World, Olympic and European record holders, plus the reigning Olympic, World, World Cup and European champions in the women's coxless pairs, the first British rowers to hold all seven distinctions simultaneously. 

Career Highlights:

2009-In 2009, she won the Bernard Churcher Trophy in the senior single scull at the Henley Women's Regatta.

2012-At the 2012 Olympic Games, in partnership with Heather Stanning, she set the Olympic record and won the gold medal in the women's coxless pairs, the first gold medal won by Team GB at the 2012 Games and the first Olympic gold medal for British women's rowing.

2013- At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in South Korea she became the world champion with her partner Polly Swann

2014-she also won the 2014 European Rowing Championships at Belgrade and thus became the first woman to hold the Olympic, World and European titles for the coxless pair.

Helen Glover Achievements

Honours:

Glover was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing, which she received from Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle on 10 April 2013.

In August 2012 her Olympic victory was commemorated by the Royal Mail which issued a commemorative postage stamp and painted a post box gold on Quay Street, Penzance.(50.1161°N 5.5310°W)

On 26 June 2013 she was awarded a Blue Peter badge, and on 26 September 2014 she was also awarded a Blue Peter gold badge.

In August 2013 fuchsia "Helen Glover" was awarded Certificate 8162 by the American Fuchsia Society. It was hybridized by W.E.Negus (Ernie) of Hayle Cornwall, and is described as a single flower containing a light violet corolla, a light rose tube and a yellowish white sepal redolent of Cornish ice cream.

Achievements:

2009

1st - Bernard Churcher Trophy, Henley Women's Regatta, senior single scull.

2010

3rd - Women's Eights Head of the River Race, River Thames, Reading University eight.

5th - GB Rowing Team Senior Trials, single scull.

9th - World Rowing Cup, Bled, coxless pair.

5th - World Rowing Cup, Munich, coxless pair.

2nd - 2010 World Rowing Championships, Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, coxless pair.

2011

1st - GB Rowing Team Senior Trials, Eton-Dorney, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Munich, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Lucerne, coxless pair.

2nd - 2011 World Rowing Championships, Lake Bled Slovenia, coxless pair.

2012

1st - GB Rowing Team Trials, Eton Dorney, 10–11 March, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Belgrade, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Lucerne, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Munich, coxless pair.

1st - 2012 Summer Olympic Games, London, 1 August, coxless pair. Olympic record time.

2013

1st - GB Rowing Team Senior Trials, Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, single scull.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Penrith Lakes, Australia, March, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Eton Dorney, London, June, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Lucerne, July, coxless pair.

1st - Henley Royal Regatta, Princess Grace Challenge Cup, quadruple scull.

1st - 2013 World Rowing Championships, Chungju South Korea, 31 August, coxless pair.

2014

1st - Women's Eights Head of the River Race, River Thames, 17 March, women's eight.

1st - GB Rowing Team Senior Trials, Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, 19 April, coxless pair.

1st - European Rowing Championships, Ada Ciganlija, Belgrade, 30 May, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Lac d'Aiguebelette, France, June, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Lucerne Rotsee, 13 July, coxless pair.

1st - 2014 World Rowing Championships, Bosbaan, Amsterdam, 30 August, coxless pair. World record time.

1st - British Rowing Championships, Holme Pierrepont, 18–19 October, women's fours.

1st - British Rowing Championships, Holme Pierrepont, 18–19 October, quad sculls.

2015

1st - GB Rowing Open-weight trial, Boston, Lincolnshire, 14 February, single scull.

1st - Women's Eights Head of the River Race, River Thames, 14 March, women's eight.

1st - GB Rowing Team Senior Trials, Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, 19 April, coxless pair.

1st - European Rowing Championships, Poznan, Poland, 31 May, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Lake Varese, 21 June, coxless pair.

1st - World Rowing Cup, Lucerne Rotsee, 12 July, coxless pair.

1st - 2015 World Rowing Championships, Lac d'Aiguebelette, France, 5 September, coxless pair.