Helen Glover

Who is Helen Glover?

Helen Glover MBE is a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. As of August 2014 she is the current world record holder and the reigning Olympic, World, World Cup and European champion in the women's coxless pairs, the first British rower to hold all five distinctions simultaneously.

At the 2012 Olympic Games she won the gold medal, in partnership with Heather Stanning, in the women's coxless pairs, the first gold medal won by Team GB at the 2012 Games and the first Olympic gold medal for British women's rowing. At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in South Korea she became the world champion with her partner Polly Swann, with whom she also won the 2014 European Rowing Championships at Belgrade and thus became the first woman to hold the Olympic, World and European titles for the coxless pair. She retained her world title and set the world record time in partnership with Heather Stanning at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.