Eleanor "Ellie" Piggott (born 16 May 1991) is an English

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, who won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain rowing squad at the 2016 World Rowing Championships, in the Women's

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s event.

Rowing career

Piggott comes from

Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ...

. She is a graduate of

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, and a member of Wallingford Rowing Club. She won her first gold at the World Rowing U23 Championships in 2013. She was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at

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in France, where she won a silver medal as part of the lightweight quadruple sculls with

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and

Emily Craig Emily Craig (born 30 November 1992) is a British lightweight three-time world champion rower. Rowing career Craig was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, ...

. At the 2016 championships in

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, her women's lightweight quadruple sculls crew of Brianna Stubbs, Emily Craig and Imogen Walsh fought off competition from Germany and China, to win gold and finish with a time of 7:10:60 in the final. Piggott represented Great Britain at the first stage of the 2018

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, and at the second stage of the event in

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. Piggott is also a double blue, twice winner of the Oxford - Cambridge Womens Boat Race for Oxford.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Piggott, Eleanor 1991 births Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford English female rowers Living people World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Sportspeople from Bedford