Grace Prendergast

Grace Prendergast is a New Zealand rower, born on 30 June 1992 in Christchurch, Canterbury, who competed at two Olympic Games and is affiliated with the Avon Rowing Club of Christchurch. She is listed at 183 centimetres and 73 kilograms. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she rowed in the New Zealand women's eight and finished fourth. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in 2021, she won the gold medal in the women's coxless pair with Kerri Gowler and took silver in the women's eight, which gives her two Olympic medals, one gold and one silver. In the coxless pair semi-final heat on 28 July 2021 she and Gowler recorded 6:47.41, which Olympedia lists as an Olympic record. The same biography places her among the Olympians who competed in the Boat Race, in the Cambridge women's crew that won the 2022 race.