Helen Glover

Helen Glover is a British rower who, with her partner Heather Stanning, won the women's coxless pair at the 2012 Olympics in London, the first Olympic gold medal won by Team GB at those Games and the first for British women's rowing, and defended the title at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. They set the Olympic and world record times and held world, Olympic, World Cup and European titles together. She was triple world champion and later partnered Polly Swann for a world title in 2013 and a European title in 2014 and 2021. After a break to start a family she returned to training and finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics as the first British mother to row at the Games.