Rebecca Chin

Rower // Women's Squad
Date of Birth: 11th Dec 1991 (32 years old)
Club: Agecroft RC
Height: 178.00
Hometown: Deganwy

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Becca Chin enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2015, racing at two World Cups and winning a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships.

Chin is a graduate of the British Rowing World Class Start programme, having gotten into the sport after representing Britain in athletics at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.

The world U23 medallist is now focusing on her ambition to compete at an Olympic Games.

In 2017, Chin was ever-present in the new-look women’s eight, which debuted at the European Championships in Racice. The crew won silver and bronze in the World Cup series, before finishing fifth at the World Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton.

Becca enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2015, winning a silver medal at the World Championships

On The Water

2015

World Silver Medallist Women's Four

2014

World University Champion Women's Four

2013

World U23 Silver Medallist Women's Eight

Rio 2016 Olympiad: 2013 – 2016

After finishing fifth with Lucinda Gooderham in the women’s pair at the 2015 GB Rowing Team Senior and U23 Trials, Chin was given another chance to impress at the Essen Regatta in Germany. She took it with both hands as she and Karen Bennett won double gold in the women’s pair. The same partnership competed as a second GB pair at the World Cups in Varese and Lucerne, finishing tenth in both.

Chin and Bennett were then selected alongside Gooderham and Holly Norton for a women’s four at the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, where they won an impressive silver medal.

Chin was a member of the women’s eight crew that won silver at the 2013 World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz, Austria. She also won the under-23 and open women’s categories at the inaugural British Rowing Sculling Festival in 2013.

She was selected for the senior GB Rowing Team for the first time in 2014 as part of the women’s eight that competed at the Windermere Cup in Seattle.

Chin also represented Britain at the 2014 World University Rowing Championships in Gravelines, France, teaming up with Bennett, Pippa Whittaker and Michelle Vezie to win women’s four gold with a dominant performance.

Karen Bennett and Rebecca Chin in the women's pair at the 2015 World Cup in Lucerne
Rebecca Chin in the women's eight at the World U23 Championships

London 2012 Olympiad: 2009 – 2012

Chin made her GB Rowing Team debut at the 2012 World Rowing U23 Championships in Trakai, Lithuania, as part of the women’s eight that finished fourth.

She also won the BUCS Indoor Rowing Series in 2012.

GB Competitive Record

World Rowing Championships
2017 5th W8+
2015 W4-
World Rowing Championships:
2017
5th
W8+
World Rowing Championships:
2015
W4-
European Rowing Championships
2017 4th W8+
European Rowing Championships:
2017
4th
W8+
World Rowing Cup Regattas
2018 Belgrade 8th W4-
2017 Lucerne W8+
2017 Poznan W8+
2015 Lucerne 10th W2-
2015 Varese 10th W2-
World Rowing Cup Regattas:
2018 Belgrade
8th
W4-
World Rowing Cup Regattas:
2017 Lucerne
W8+
World Rowing Cup Regattas:
2017 Poznan
W8+
World Rowing Cup Regattas:
2015 Lucerne
10th
W2-
World Rowing Cup Regattas:
2015 Varese
10th
W2-
World Rowing U23 Championships
2013 W8+
2012 4th W8+
World Rowing U23 Championships:
2013
W8+
World Rowing U23 Championships:
2012
4th
W8+
GB Rowing Team Senior Trials
2016 8th W2-
2015 5th W2-
2014 12th W1x
GB Rowing Team Senior Trials:
2016
8th
W2-
GB Rowing Team Senior Trials:
2015
5th
W2-
GB Rowing Team Senior Trials:
2014
12th
W1x

More info...

Club: Agecroft RC
Boat: Womens Squad
Role: Rower
Coaches: Hamish Burrell, Robin Williams

Learnt to Row: Royal Chester RC
Original Club(s): Royal Chester RC
Original Coach(es): Chris Jackman, Duncan Little, Dale Ellis

Beyond the Boat

Becca took up rowing while studying nutrition at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was coached by Hamish Burrell on the GB Rowing Team Start programme based at Agecroft RC.

She is Lottery funded through UK Sport.

Personal information

Place of Birth Current Address Hometown Region
St Asaph Salford Quays Deganwy Conwy
Place of Birth:
St Asaph
Current Address:
Salford Quays
Hometown:
Deganwy
Region:
Conwy
Date of Birth Weight Height
11th August 1991 75kg 178cm
Date of Birth:
11th August 1991
Weight:
75kg
Height:
178cm
Education
Manchester Metropolitan University
Education:
Manchester Metropolitan University