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Born | (1993-11-25) 25 November 1993 (age 31) Belfast, Northern Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Shorten (born 25 November 1993) is a Northern Irish rower from Belfast. She is a world and European gold medallist and Olympic silver medallist for Great Britain.
She attended Methodist College Belfast and Roehampton University.
Career
Shorten won a silver medal in the eight at the 2019 European Rowing Championships.
In 2021, she won a European bronze medal in the coxless four in Varese, Italy.
She was selected for the British team to compete in the rowing events, in the coxless four for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
She won a gold medal in the coxless four at the 2022 European Rowing Championships and the 2022 World Rowing Championships.
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship bronze medal in the women's coxless four.
In August 2024, Shorten was stroke for the British team that won a silver medal in the Women's Four at the Paris Olympics.
References
- ^ "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
- 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