Grace Clough
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| National team | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21 June 1991 Sheffield, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Adaptive rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Bow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Erb's palsy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | PR3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Grace Elizabeth Sorrel Clough MBE (born 21 June 1991) is a British Paralympic rower competing in the mixed coxed four event. She has won multiple gold medals at the World Rowing Championships and World Rowing Cup alongside a gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Clough was inducted into the Sheffield Legends walk of fame in 2016 and named a Member of the British Empire in 2017.
Early life and education
Clough was born on 21 June 1991 in Sheffield, England.[1] She was born with Erb's palsy and had multiple operations to repair nerve damage in her shoulders shortly after birth. While at school, Clough began playing sports as a basketball player and captain in Yorkshire. She also played on a football team at the University of Leeds while completing a degree in sociology.[2] She continued her successful rowing career while studying at Kellogg College, Oxford.
Career
In 2013, Clough began her rowing career as a member of the Nottingham Rowing Club after being classified as a PR3 rower and completing training in Banyoles, Spain.[3] As a competitor for Great Britain, Clough won a gold medal in the mixed coxed four at the 2014 World Rowing Championships and 2015 World Rowing Championships.[2] Similarly, Clough won gold in the mixed coxed four events at the 2014 World Rowing Cup in Aiguebelette-le-Lac, France and the 2015 World Rowing Cup in Varese, Italy.[4] In the following years, Clough won an additional gold medal in mixed coxed four at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and the 2017 World Rowing Championships.[5] In 2018, Clough won gold at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in the mixed coxed four event.[6]
Awards and honours
In 2016, Clough was inducted into the Sheffield Legends Walk of Fame.[7] In 2017, she was named a Member of the British Empire at the 2017 New Year Honours.[8]
References
- ↑ "Grace Clough MBE". British Rowing. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- 1 2 Hudson, Elizabeth (1 April 2016). "Get Inspired: From rowing novice to Paralympic hopeful". BBC. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ↑ O'Malley, Katie (7 September 2016). "Grace Clough: The Paralympian Who Went From Novice To Professional Rower". ElleUK. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ↑ "Grace Clough – Rio 2016". British Paralympic Association. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ↑ "Para rowing: 5 things learned in 2017". International Paralympic Committee. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ↑ "World Rowing Championships: Great Britain win PR3 mixed coxed gold". BBC. 15 September 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ↑ "Sheffield's golden girl Grace is new Sheffield legend". Sheffield News Room. 22 December 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ↑ "Paralympians recognised with New Year's honours". International Paralympic Committee. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
External links
Grace Clough at FISA WorldRowing.com