Imogen Grant
British rower
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Imogen Daisy Grant (born 26 February 1996) is a British lightweight world and Olympic champion rower.
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| Full name | Imogen Daisy Grant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 February 1996 Cambridge, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Lightweight double sculls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
Grant was brought up in Bar Hill, Cambridge, where she attended The Perse School for Girls before studying medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]
Rowing
Grant won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in the lightweight single sculls[2] and the following year she won another bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria but this time as part of the lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.[3]
In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the lightweight double sculls in Varese, Italy.[4]
With the Cambridge squad, she won the 2022 Oxford–Cambridge University Boat Race.
At the 2022 World Cup III regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, she won gold and set a new world's best time in women's lightweight singles of 7:23.36.[5]
She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships[6] and the 2022 World Rowing Championships.[7]
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.[8]
Olympic gold medal
At the 2024 Summer Olympics Grant and Emily Craig won the gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls, the final time that the event was held at the Olympic Games.[9]
MBE
She was awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to rowing.[10]
Other career
Grant has a degree in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Medicine, and master's degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of Cambridge.[11] She started a career as a medical doctor in August 2024.[12]
