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Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking MBE (born 25 January 1986) is a retired British rower.

Sophie Hosking
Personal information
Full nameSophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking
NationalityBritish
Born (1986-01-25) 25 January 1986 (age 36)
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2012 London Lwt double sculls
World Championships
2007 Munich LW4x
2006 Eton LW4x
2009 Poznań LW2x
2011 Bled LW2x

Personal life


Hosking was born in 1986. The lightweight rower David Hosking is her father.[1] She attended Kingston Grammar School in London, before completing an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics at Trevelyan College, Durham University, graduating in 2007.[2] Following her retirement from competitive rowing, Hosking embarked on a new career as a solicitor and is now the UK Head of Legal at Cazoo.[3]


Rowing career


She is a member of the London Rowing Club in Putney.[4] A fixture in British lightweight sculling since 2007, Hosking won a surprise gold medal for Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics lightweight double sculls, along with Kat Copeland.[5] Hosking and Copeland's success was the second of six gold medals won by Great Britain on the middle Saturday of the 2012 Games, on what became known in the United Kingdom as Super Saturday.

She was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, where she won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight double sculls with Hester Goodsell.[6]


Awards


Hosking was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing.[7][8]


See also



References


  1. Barretto, Lawrence (18 June 2013). "Olympic rowing champion Sophie Hosking retires". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  2. Hosking, Sophie. "Team GB Rowing Biographies". Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  3. Hosking, Sophie. "Linkedin Profile". Linkedin.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "Sophie Hosking through to lightweight double sculls final (From Wandsworth Guardian)". wandsworthguardian.co.uk.
  5. "Olympics rowing: Sophie Hosking & Katherine Copeland win gold". BBC Sport. 4 August 2012.
  6. "2011 World Rowing Championships". WorldRowing.com. World Rowing Federation. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  7. "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 25.
  8. "London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Honours" (PDF). Cabinet Office.




На других языках


- [en] Sophie Hosking

[it] Sophie Hosking

Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking (Edimburgo, 25 gennaio 1986) è un'ex canottiera britannica.

[ru] Хоскинг, Софи

Софи Ханна Маргерит Хоскинг (англ. Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking; род. 25 января 1986[1][2], Эдинбург) — британская гребчиха, выступавшая за сборную Великобритании по академической гребле в период 2003—2012 годов. Чемпионка летних Олимпийских игр в Лондоне, обладательница серебряной и трёх бронзовых медалей чемпионатов мира, победительница и призёрка многих регат национального значения.



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