Katherine Grainger

Katherine Grainger is a British rower from Glasgow who took up the sport at the University of Edinburgh in 1993 and became the most decorated British female Olympian in rowing. She won five Olympic medals at five consecutive Games, silver in the quadruple sculls in 2000 and 2008, silver in the coxless pair in 2004, gold in the double sculls with Anna Watkins at London in 2012, and silver in the double sculls with Vicky Thornley at Rio in 2016. She was also a six-time world champion between 2003 and 2011. Outside rowing she earned a law doctorate, served as chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and then of the University of Glasgow, and became a Dame.