Heather Stanning

Heather Stanning

OBE

Personal information
Full name	Heather Mary Stanning
Nationality	British
Born	(1985-01-26) 26 January 1985 (age 39) Yeovil, Somerset, England[1]
Height	181 cm (5 ft 11 in) (2012)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb) (2012)
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Sport	Rowing
Event	Women's coxless pair
Turned pro	2009
Partner	Helen Glover
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2012 London W2- 2016 Rio de Janeiro W2- World Championships 2014 Amsterdam W2− 2015 Aiguebelette W2– 2010 Lake Karapiro W2- 2011 Lake Bled W2- World Rowing Cup 2011 Munich W2- 2011 Lucerne W2- 2012 Belgrade W2- 2012 Lucerne W2- 2012 Munich W2- 2014 Lac d'Aiguebelette W2- 2014 Lucerne W2- 2015 Lake Varese W2- 2015 Lucerne W2- 2016 Poznan W2- European Championships 2015 Poznan W2− 2016 Brandenburg an der Havel W2− World Rowing U23 Championships 2007 Glasgow W2−

Heather Mary Stanning OBE (born 26 January 1985) is a retired British professional rower. As a member of the Great Britain rowing team, she is a double Olympic champion, double World champion, quadruple World Cup champion and double European champion. She has also been a British champion in both women's fours and quad sculls.^[2]

Paired with Helen Glover in 2012, she won an Olympic gold medal, the first for their country of the 2012 Olympiad and the first ever British Olympic gold medal in women's rowing. She set the world record time in partnership with Helen Glover at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, and they retained their World title at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France.

In 2016, they retained their European title at Brandenburg an der Havel, set the World Rowing Cup record time at Poznan and again won gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She was ranked the number 1 female rower in the world in 2016 and announced her retirement from rowing in November 2016.

She is a British Army officer and currently holds the rank of Major in the Royal Artillery; she was given dispensation from the army to pursue an Olympic career with the British team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2016 Summer Olympics.