- Katherine Grainger
Katherine Grainger MBE (born
11 December 1975 inGlasgow ) is a Scottishrower .Her family moved to
Netherley ,Aberdeenshire and Katherine representsAberdeen in rowing events. She trained on the River Dee and this has the kudos of being the only river she has fallen into whilst rowing!She is a three time Olympic silver medalist. She first won silver at Sydney in 2000 in the woman's quadruple sculls with
Guin Batten ,Gillian Lindsay andMiriam Batten losing to a German team. Four years later in Athens in 2004, She won silver again when she took part in the coxless pairs withCath Bishop losing toGeorgeta Damian andViorica Susanu ofRomania . She returned to the quadruple sculls in Beijing 2008 when she won her third silver withAnnie Vernon ,Debbie Flood andFrances Houghton narrowly losing toChina after taking the lead for some of the race.Grainger has also won five medals at World Championships. The first of these was a bronze in 1997 in the eight, then a gold with Bishop in 2003, a gold in 2005 with the quadruple scull, with Houghton,
Sarah Winckless , andRebecca Romero , and in 2006 her quadruple scull were promoted to gold following a drugs test on the winning Russian crew. This quad had Debbie Flood instead of Romero, who had retired after the 2005 world championships. Another gold came in 2007, again in the quadruple sculls, with Annie Vernon replacing the injured Sarah Winkless.She has also won the Rowing World Cup in the Quadruple Scull in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Grainger has an Honours law degree from
Edinburgh University , a Master of Philosophy degree inMedical Law fromGlasgow University and is currently studying for a PhD in law atKing's College London .She took up Rowing at the University of Edinburgh in 1993 and was President of the
Edinburgh University Boat Club in 1996/97. She was elected theEdinburgh University Sports Union 's female athlete of the winner (Eva Bailey Cup) in 1995/96 and 1996/97 and was inducted to the University's Sports Hall of Fame on the 29th of May 2008.In July 2008 Katherine appears in theBBC TWO cooking showChinese Food Made Easy withChing He Huang .In the show Ching teaches her how to cook a healthy version ofsweet and sour pork .The show attracted 2.9 million viewers at a share of 13% that night.She was elected as Honorary President of theScottish Amateur Rowing Association in November 2005.She was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on
17 June 2006 .External links
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British Olympic Association [http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=1412 profile]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/chinesefoodmadeeasy/recipes BBC TWO]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/08/tvratings.bbc The Guardian tvratings]
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