GRANT Imogen

Date of Birth: 26 Feb 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.68/5'6''

Place of birth: CAMBRIDGE

Birth Country:

Great Britain

Place of residence : CAMBRIDGE

Residence Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Rowing	Lightweight Women's Double Sculls GBR Great Britain	4

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Sea Forest Waterway	Lightweight Women's Double Sculls Heat 3 #39	Finished
	Sea Forest Waterway	Lightweight Women's Double Sculls Semifinal A/B 1 #93	Finished
	Sea Forest Waterway	Lightweight Women's Double Sculls Final A #116	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	L2x	L1x
2019	Linz, AUT	3	-
2018	Plovdiv, BUL	-	3

European Championships

Year	Location	L2x
2021	Varese, ITA	2
2019	Lucerne, SUI	4

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Lightweight Double Sculls	2021	Lucerne, SUI	7:00.33
8	Lightweight Double Sculls	2019	Poznan, POL	7:40.87

World Championships Under 23

Year	Location	L1x	L4x
2018	Poznan, POL	1	-
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	-	5

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, EXC - Excluded

Imo (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Lino printing, reading, painting, drawing, baking. (Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Medicine - University of Cambridge, Great Britain

Partner Matthew Griffiths

Languages spoken:

English, French, Italian

Cambridge University Women's Boat Club [CUWBC] [Great Britain]

Darren Whiter [national], GBR

She took up rowing in 2014 when she was a first-year medical student at the University of Cambridge in England. She won her first world championships medal four years later in 2018. "If you'd told me that I was going to be a bronze medallist at the world championships, I don't think I would have believed you. Before I started rowing I thought it was a silly sport because you went backwards!" (worldrowing.com, 01 Dec 2019; cambridgeindependent.co.uk, 12 May 2019; bbc.co.uk, 14 Sep 2018; Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

During orientation week in her first year at university, she signed up for a rowing taster session so that she could claim two free drinks at a cocktail night. "I signed up, intending to get the free drinks and not go to the taster session, but felt guilty and went anyway. When I was there, I really enjoyed it. I signed up for another session straight after the first." (worldrowing.com, 01 Dec 2019; cambridgeindependent.co.uk, 12 May 2019; Athlete, 23 Jul 2021)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, after which she plans to finish her medical degree at university. (worldrowing.com, 01 Dec 2019)

Winning gold in the lightweight single sculls at the 2018 U23 World Championships in Poznan, Poland, and winning bronze in the lightweight double sculls at the 2019 World Championships in Linz-Ottensheim, Austria. (worldrowing.com, 01 Dec 2019)

Coach Rob Baker. "He's had a really big impact on the way that I row and the way that I approach my training." (cuwbc.org.uk, 07 Jun 2019; youtube.com, 19 Sep 2018)

Philosophy:

"Rowing is like meditation for me. I can start the outing feeling sad, grumpy, stressed, distracted, but once I start rowing my mind clears. There's no space for anything else when I am rowing. For someone who has a busy brain at the best of times it's so good to spend a few hours a day focusing on one thing at a time." (Instagram profile, 01 Dec 2018)

She won the Sport category at the 2020 Women of the Future Awards. (gazettelive.co.uk, 15 Feb 2021; Instagram profile, 11 Feb 2021)

General Interest

General
JUGGLING ROWING WITH MEDICINE
She said balancing rowing with her medical studies at the University of Cambridge was manageable in the early years of her degree, but became more difficult once she had to take on placements. For the 2019/20 academic year, she took a break from her main medical degree to train full-time, but studied part-time for a master's in obstetrics and gynaecology. "My fourth year at Cambridge was very difficult, as I had to juggle clinical placements at a hospital 90 minutes away by car with the same training as the previous years. So I'd be up at 05:15, drive to training, go rowing in the [River] Ely, and then I would drive on to my placement at the hospital and spend the day there, and then either train at the hospital gym, or drive back in the evenings to train with the squad. So they were quite long days. My studies definitely give me a scientific insight and approach to the training we do." (worldrowing.com, 01 Dec 2019; cambridgeindependent.co.uk, 12 May 2019; youtube.com, 19 Sep 2018)

VARIED TRAINING
She said most of her rowing training at university is geared towards The Boat Race, an annual rowing race between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, whereas with the Great Britain squad her training is more varied. "Both are very intense, but in different ways. At Cambridge you are training for The Boat Race, so five kilometres [sessions] are more important, and you have the challenge of balancing a very demanding academic degree with high-performance training. At Team GB, there is more time to do more training, and take better recovery, as well as more time on camp. The Boat Race compared to the world championships is very different and obviously for me competing in The Boat Race, that's in an eight, and then I've moved to the smallest boat class for the U23s and the world championships, so it is very different, the way you race it is very different, and it's just been about trying to get the most out of every session." (worldrowing.com, 01 Dec 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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