Rebecca Shorten
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Born | (1993-11-25) 25 November 1993 (age 30) Belfast, Northern Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rebecca Shorten (born 25 November 1993) is a Northern Irish rower from Belfast.[1] She is a world and European gold medallist and Olympic silver medallist for Great Britain.
She attended Methodist College Belfast and Roehampton University.[1]
Career
Shorten won a silver medal in the eight at the 2019 European Rowing Championships.[2]
In 2021, she won a European bronze medal in the coxless four in Varese, Italy.[3]
She was selected for the British team to compete in the rowing events, in the coxless four for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4][5]
She won a gold medal in the coxless four at the 2022 European Rowing Championships[6] and the 2022 World Rowing Championships.[7]
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship bronze medal in the women's coxless four.[8]
In August 2024, Shorten was stroke for the British team that won a silver medal in the Women's Four at the Paris Olympics.[9]
References
- ^ a b "Athlete Profile". British Rowing. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "European Rowing Championships: Great Britain men's four win gold in Lucerne". BBC Sport. BBC. 2 June 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
- ^ "Women's Four Final A (Final)". World Rowing. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "British Olympic Association selects Olympic rowing team for Tokyo 2020". British Rowing. 9 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: NI's Rebecca Shorten, Rebecca Edwards and Hannah Scott selected for GB rowing squad". BBC Sport. 9 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ Woods, Mark (13 August 2022). "British rowing bounces back with four golds in European Championships". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "World Rowing Championships: GB win four golds on penultimate day". BBC. 24 September 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "Rowing - World Championships - 2023". The Sports.org. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ Nigel Ringland, 'Shorten looks for silver lining as Team GB pipped to gold'. BBC Sport, 1 August 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024
External links
- Rebecca Shorten at World Rowing
- Rebecca Shorten at Olympedia
- Rebecca Shorten at Team GB
- Rebecca Shorten at British Rowing
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- 1989:
(Christiane Harzendorf, Ina Justh, Annegret Strauch, Ute Wild)
- 1990:
(Doina Șnep-Bălan, Iulia Bobeică, Marioara Curela, Doina Ciucanu-Robu)
- 1991:
(Kirsten Barnes, Jennifer Doey, Jessica Monroe, Brenda Taylor)
- 1993:
(Pei Jiayun, Wang Shujuan, Zhou Yaxin, Jing Yanhua)
- 1994:
(Femke Boelen, Elien Meijer, Muriel van Schilfgaarde, Rita de Jong)
- 1995:
(Cindy Brooks, Melissa Iverson, Lianne Nelson, Katherine Scanlon Lewis)
- 1996:
(Emily Dirksen, Sara Field, Amy Turner, Rosana Zegarra)
- 1997:
(Alex Beever, Lisa Eyre, Elizabeth Henshilwood, Sue Walker)
- 1998:
(Yevheniya Andrieieva, Tatyana Fesenko, Nina Proskura, Tetyana Savchenko)
- 1999:
(Yuliya Bichyk, Elena Mikulitch, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
- 2000:
(Iryna Bazyleuskaya, Natallia Helakh, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
- 2001:
(Jane Robinson, Julia Wilson, Jo Lutz, Victoria Roberts)
- 2002:
(Kristina Larsen, Jodi Winter, Rebecca Sattin, Victoria Roberts)
- 2003:
(Liane Malcos, Whitney Webber, Caryn Davies, Wendy Wilbur)
- 2004:
(Marjolaine Rossit, Celia Foulon, Audrey Galy, Marie Le Nepvou)
- 2005:
(Robyn Selby Smith, Emily Martin, Pauline Frasca, Kate Hornsey)
- 2006:
(Robyn Selby Smith, Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley, Kate Hornsey)
- 2007:
(Portia McGee, Erin Cafaro, Rachel Jeffers, Megan Dirkmaat)
- 2008:
(Hanna Nakhayeva, Volha Shcharbachenia, Natallia Helakh, Yuliya Bichyk)
- 2009:
(Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2010:
(Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2011:
(Sarah McIlduff, Kara Kohler, Emily Regan, Sara Hendershot)
- 2013:
(Emily Huelskamp, Olivia Coffey, Tessa Gobbo, Felice Mueller)
- 2014:
(Kayla Pratt, Kelsey Bevan, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Williams)
- 2015:
(Kristine O'Brien, Grace Latz, Adrienne Martelli, Grace Luczak)
- 2016:
(Fiona Gammond, Donna Etiebet, Holly Nixon, Holly Norton)
- 2017:
(Lucy Stephan, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Molly Goodman)
- 2018:
(Madeleine Wanamaker, Erin Boxberger, Molly Bruggeman, Erin Reelick)
- 2019:
(Olympia Aldersey, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Lucy Stephan)
- 2022:
(Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Samantha Redgrave, Rebecca Shorten)
- 2023:
(Marloes Oldenburg, Hermijntje Drenth, Tinka Offereins, Benthe Boonstra)