Lauren Henry

Rower // Women's Squad
Club: Leicester RC
Hometown: Lutterworth, Leicestershire

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Lauren joined Leicester Rowing Club when she was 13. Her twin sister was already rowing there and enjoying it and she needed something to replace her Saturday morning theatre club which had stopped for the summer holidays.

She fell in love with the sport, never went back to the theatre club, and quickly worked her way through the junior and U23 ranks. She won the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in 2023 at the age of 21 and was selected for the GB Women’s Quad which went on to take the British Record at the Varese World Cup and became World Champion in a stand-out race in Belgrade later that year.

Lauren is incredibly excited and honoured at the prospect of being selected to be part of Team GB at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. She is inspired by her parents, who have supported her in every way they possibly could to get her to this level. Lauren is also inspired by the strong women who she trains with everyday, in particular the three girls in the quad with her last season, who taught her so much in her first senior season of racing and made the project such a special one!

She is extremely grateful to have been coached by three wonderful coaches, Andrew Randell, Peter Sheppard and Howard Marsh who have helped shape her into the athlete and person she is today.

At Paris 2024, Lauren won GB’s first ever Olympic gold medal in the Women’s quadruple sculls – with crewmates Georgie Brayshaw, Lola Anderson and Hannah Scott – passing the Netherlands in the very last stroke of the race.

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On The Water

GB Competitive Record

Year Event Result Boat
2024 Olympic Rowing Regatta
Paris, FRA
W4x
2024 World Rowing Cup II
Lucerne, SUI
W4x
2024 European Rowing Championships
Szeged, HUN
W4x
2024 World Rowing Cup I
Varese, ITA
4 W4x
2023 World Rowing Championships
Belgrade, SRB
W4x
2023 World Rowing Cup III
Lucerne, SUI
W4x
2023 World Rowing Cup II
Varese, ITA
W4x
2023 European Rowing Championships
Bled, SLO
W4x
2021 World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Varese, ITA
4 BW1x
2021 World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Racice, CZE
4 BW1x
2019 World Rowing Junior Championships
Tokyo, JPN
10 (4 in Final B) JW2x
Year:
2024
Event:
Olympic Rowing Regatta
Paris, FRA
Result:
Boat:
W4x
Year:
2024
Event:
World Rowing Cup II
Lucerne, SUI
Result:
Boat:
W4x
Year:
2024
Event:
European Rowing Championships
Szeged, HUN
Result:
Boat:
W4x
Year:
2024
Event:
World Rowing Cup I
Varese, ITA
Result:
4
Boat:
W4x
Year:
2023
Event:
World Rowing Championships
Belgrade, SRB
Result:
Boat:
W4x
Year:
2023
Event:
World Rowing Cup III
Lucerne, SUI
Result:
Boat:
W4x
Year:
2023
Event:
World Rowing Cup II
Varese, ITA
Result:
Boat:
W4x
Year:
2023
Event:
European Rowing Championships
Bled, SLO
Result:
Boat:
W4x
Year:
2021
Event:
World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Varese, ITA
Result:
4
Boat:
BW1x
Year:
2021
Event:
World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Racice, CZE
Result:
4
Boat:
BW1x
Year:
2019
Event:
World Rowing Junior Championships
Tokyo, JPN
Result:
10 (4 in Final B)
Boat:
JW2x