Sarah Winckless

Sarah Winckless

Medal record Women’s Rowing Competitor for  Great Britain Olympic Games Bronze 2004 Athens Double sculls World Championships Gold 2005 Gifu Women's quad Gold 2006 Eton Women's quad

Sarah Winckless is a former British rower. She won a bronze medal in Double sculls with her partner Elise Laverick at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and was twice world champion, in 2005 and 2006.

Winckless began rowing while at Cambridge University, where she studied Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College. She made her debut for Great Britain in the women's eight at the World Championships in 1998 and finished eighth. She then transferred to sculling, finishing ninth in the double at the 2000 Olympic Games. She was in GB quadruple scull crews that narrowly missed out on the medals at the 2002 and 2003 World Championships, finishing fourth both times. She teamed up with Elise Laverick for the double scull from 2004 on, producing good results in the world cup season before taking Olympic bronze in the 2004 Games held in Athens.^[1] She returned to the quad for the 2005 and 2006 world championships, winning with Rebecca Romero, Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger in 2005 and Debbie Flood, Houghton & Grainger in 2006. She was unable to compete in 2007, due to injury, but returned to the GB team for the 2008 Olympic Games, racing in the Women's eight.

She announced her retirement from rowing in April 2009 ^[2]

She has also been a campaigner for Huntington's Disease charities, and was diagnosed with the disease in 1998 ^[3]

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