Louisa Reeve

Rio 2016 Olympiad: 2013 – 2016

Louisa partnered Vicki Meyer-Laker in a second women’s pair at the 2016 World Cups in Lucerne and Poznan, improving with every outing as they finished ninth and eighth respectively.

Louisa was selected in the women’s eight for the 2015 season and helped qualify the boat for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with a fourth-placed finish at the World Championships in Aigubelette.

The season had started with a fifth-placed finish at the European Championships in Poznan, with the GB crew looking well on course for a medal until a boat-stopping crab in the closing stages.

They hit back with impressive bronze medals at the Varese and Lucerne World Cups, twice going under six minutes at the first of those, before finishing less than a second shy of the podium in Aiguebelette.

Louisa started the Olympiad in a second GB women’s pair with Katie Greves, finishing fourth at the Eton Dorney World Cup, before moving to the eight for the rest of the 2013 season. She was again fourth at both the World Cup in Lucerne and World Championships in Chungju.

She raced in the eight throughout 2014, winning silver at the European Championships in Belgrade and bronze medals at the World Cups in Aiguebelette and Lucerne before finishing sixth at the World Championships in Amsterdam.

London 2012 Olympiad: 2009 – 2012

Louisa and Olivia Whitlam, after finishing a fine sixth at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, won the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials for the next two years and continued in the pair in 2009. They won World Cup gold and bronze in Banyoles and Lucerne respectively before finishing sixth at the World Championships in Poznan.

After starting the 2010 season with fifth place at the World Cup in Bled, Louisa was paired with Jess Eddie for the Munich World Cup and finished ninth. She had doubled up in the eight at both events, winning gold and silver, and continued in the boat for the rest of the year, taking bronze at the Lucerne World Cup and finishing just outside the medals at the World Championships in New Zealand.

Louisa remained in the eight for the rest of the London Olympiad and, after taking silver at the Munich World Cup, secured her second World Championships medal with bronze in Bled in 2011.

Two more bronze medals followed at the Belgrade and Munich World Cups in 2012 before Louisa and the eight recorded another fifth-placed finish at the London Olympics.

Louisa learnt to row at Downe House School but only took up the sport seriously while studying Natural Science at Durham University, where she was coached by Emma and Wade Hall-Craggs.

She is Lottery funded through UK Sport.