Eleanor Piggott
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| Nationality | United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 May 1991 (age 33) | |||||||||||||||||
| Education | University of Oxford | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Wallingford RC | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Eleanor "Ellie" Piggott (born 16 May 1991)[1] is an English rower, who won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain rowing squad at the 2016 World Rowing Championships, in the Women's Quad sculls event.[2]
Piggott comes from Bedford. She is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford,[3] and a member of Wallingford Rowing Club.[4][1]
She won her first gold at the World Rowing U23 Championships in 2013.[1] At the 2015 World Rowing Championships, she was part of the British crew that won the silver medal.[5] At the 2016 championships in Rotterdam, 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.[6]
Piggott represented Great Britain at the first stage of the 2018 World Rowing Cup in Belgrade, and at the second stage of the event in Ottensheim.[7]
References
- ^ a b c "Eleanor Piggott". British Rowing. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ^ LM4x results
- ^ "Gold for Pembroke Duo in 2016 Rowing World Championships". Pembroke College, Oxford. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ^ "Ellie's elite bid". Bedford Today. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ^ LW4x results
- ^ "(LW4x) Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final". International Rowing Federation.
- ^ "Eleanor Piggott". World Rowing. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
