Holly Hill
Rower // Women's Squad
Date of Birth: 23rd Jan 1994 (30 years old)
Club: CUWBC/Isle of Ely
Height: 182cm
Hometown: Slimbridge
Graduate of British Rowing's World Class Start programme, Holly Hill is a double medallist at U23 level and winner of the 2017 Women's Boat Race.
After joining the highly successful World Class Start programme in 2013, Hill spent her first year at Cambridge University learning to scull. The following year she switched to sweep rowing and raced in the 2015 Women’s Boat Race. In 2017 Holly and her crew triumphed over Oxford by 11 lengths, setting a new course record in the process.
On the international stage Holly has won bronze and silver medals at U23 level, and made her debut with the GB Rowing Team senior squad at the 2017 World Cup in Lucerne, racing in the women’s four. She went on to race in the women’s pair with Cambridge teammate Melissa Wilson at the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton, finishing fourth.
In the 2019 season Holly has raced in the four and the pair, winning bronze in the latter with Polly Swann at World Cup III.
On The Water
GB Competitive Record
| Year | Event | Position | Boat |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | World Rowing Championships Linz Ottensheim, AUT |
1 (FB Final) | W4- |
| 2019 | World Rowing Cup III Rotterdam, NED |
W2- | |
| 2019 | World Rowing Cup II Poznan, POL |
1 (FB Final) | W4- |
| 2018 | World Rowing Championships Plovdiv, BUL |
6 | W8+ |
| 2018 | European Rowing Championships Glasgow, GBR |
W8+ | |
| 2018 | World Rowing Cup II Linz Ottensheim, AUT |
4 | W8+ |
| 2017 | World Rowing Championships Sarasota-Bradenton, USA |
4 | W2- |
| 2017 | World Rowing Cup III Lucerne, SUI |
6 | W4- |
| 2016 | World Rowing Under 23 Championships Rotterdam, NED |
BW8+ | |
| 2015 | World Rowing Under 23 Championships Plovdiv, BUL |
BW4- |
- Year:
- 2019
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Linz Ottensheim, AUT - Position:
- 1 (FB Final)
- Boat:
- W4-
- Year:
- 2019
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Rotterdam, NED - Position:
- Boat:
- W2-
- Year:
- 2019
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Poznan, POL - Position:
- 1 (FB Final)
- Boat:
- W4-
- Year:
- 2018
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Plovdiv, BUL - Position:
- 6
- Boat:
- W8+
- Year:
- 2018
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Glasgow, GBR - Position:
- Boat:
- W8+
- Year:
- 2018
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Linz Ottensheim, AUT - Position:
- 4
- Boat:
- W8+
- Year:
- 2017
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Sarasota-Bradenton, USA - Position:
- 4
- Boat:
- W2-
- Year:
- 2017
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- 6
- Boat:
- W4-
- Year:
- 2016
- Event:
- World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Rotterdam, NED - Position:
- Boat:
- BW8+
- Year:
- 2015
- Event:
- World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Plovdiv, BUL - Position:
- Boat:
- BW4-
Beyond the Boat
Holly first signed up to the World Class Start programme after being inspired by watching Helen Glover and Heather Stanning and Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger win gold at the London 2012 Olympics.
She has recently started learning to play the guitar and the piano, which give her something different to focus on and allow her to disconnect from the physical fatigue of rowing. She is also fascinated by politics and spends hours reading opinion pieces on what’s going on in the world, which she says is possibly more exhausting than the rowing…!
