Rebecca Shorten
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| Born | 25 November 1993 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- Rebecca Shorten at World Rowing
- Rebecca Shorten at Olympedia
- Rebecca Shorten at Team GB
- Rebecca Shorten at British Rowing
- Living people
- 1993 births
- British female rowers
- Rowers from Northern Ireland
- Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers for Great Britain
- 21st-century British sportswomen
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Belfast
- People educated at Methodist College Belfast
- Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in rowing