Imogen Daisy Grant (born 26 February 1996) is a British lightweight world champion rower.

Career

She won a bronze medal at the

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, Bulgaria, in the lightweight single sculls and the following year she won another bronze medal at the

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but this time as part of the lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig. In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the lightweight double sculls in

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, Italy. 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. She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Double Sculls at the

2022 European Rowing Championships The 2022 European Rowing Championships were held from 11 to 14 August 2022 in Munich, Germany as part of the multi-sport 2022 European Championships. The event constituted 20 events in rowing, including 6 non-Olympic events and 4 in pararowing ...

and the 2022 World Rowing Championships. At the

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in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, Imogen 1996 births Living people British female rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century British women 21st-century British people Sportspeople from Cambridge