Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking

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(born 25 January 1986) is a retired British rower.

Personal life

Hosking was born in 1986. The lightweight rower David Hosking is her father. She attended

Kingston Grammar School Kingston Grammar School is an independent co-educational day school in Kingston upon Thames, England. The school was founded by Royal Charter in 1561 but can trace its roots back to at least the 13th century.

in London, before completing an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics at

Trevelyan College , motto_English = Truth more readily than falsehood , scarf = , named_for = George Macaulay Trevelyan , namesake = George Macaulay Trevelyan , established = 1966 , principal = Adekunle Adeyeye , vice_principal = I ...

, Durham University, graduating in 2007. Following her retirement from competitive rowing, Hosking embarked on a new career as a solicitor and is now the UK Head of Legal at Cazoo.

Rowing career

She is a member of the

London Rowing Club London Rowing Club (LRC, or colloquially, 'London') is the second-oldest of the non-academic active rowing clubs on the Thames in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1856 by members of the long-disbanded Argonauts Club wishing to compete at ...

Putney Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ancient paris ...

. A fixture in British lightweight sculling since 2007, Hosking won a surprise gold medal for Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics lightweight double sculls, along with Kat Copeland. Hosking and Copeland's success was the second of six gold medals won by Great Britain on the middle Saturday of the 2012 Games, on what became known in the United Kingdom as Super Saturday. She was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in

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, where she won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight double sculls with Hester Goodsell.

Awards

Hosking was appointed

Member of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing.

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(archived) * * 1986 births Living people British female rowers Sportspeople from Edinburgh Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers of Great Britain Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Alumni of Trevelyan College, Durham People educated at Kingston Grammar School Olympic medalists in rowing Members of the Order of the British Empire Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Scottish female rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Stewards of Henley Royal Regatta Durham University Boat Club rowers {{UK-rowing-bio-stub

Personal life

Rowing career

Awards

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