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Private life

Spoors was born in 1990. She received her secondary education at

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and started rowing in 2005. She has younger twin sisters, Grace and Phoebe (born 1993), who both took up rowing, too.

Rowing career

Her first international competition was at the 2007 World Rowing Junior Championships in

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, China, where her junior women's

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s team came sixth. At the 2008 World Rowing Junior Championships in

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, Austria, she competed with the junior women's four and won gold. She transitioned to the U23 team for the 2009 season and competed with the U23 women's quad sculls; they came fourth at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Račice, Czech Republic, that year. Spoors competed in the same boat class at the 2010 World Rowing U23 Championships in

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, Belarus, and the team came tenth that year. Three months later, Spoors competed for the first time at elite level. The

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were held on Lake Karapiro near

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, New Zealand. Only four women's four team were competing, and the New Zealand squad came last. In the following year, Spoors returned to the U23 level and at the 2011 World Rowing U23 Championships in

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, Netherlands, the U23 women's quad sculls team came fourth. The same boat class went to the

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, Lithuania, and her team won a bronze medal. Spoors made the selection to the women's elite team in 2014. In the women's quad sculls, the team came fifth at the

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, Netherlands. At the

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in Aiguebelette, France, the quad sculls team came sixth. To qualify the women's quadruple sculls for the

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, the team had to achieve a top-two finish at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in

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, Switzerland, but they came third. She won a bronze medal with the New Zealand women's

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at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Spoors, Lucy 1990 births Living people New Zealand female rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand People educated at Christchurch Girls' High School Rowers from Christchurch Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Olympic silver medalists for New Zealand Olympic rowers for New Zealand 21st-century New Zealand women