Lily Jacoba van den BroeckeMBE (born 8 January 1992) is a British rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics as the coxswain in the mixed coxed four for Great Britain, and won the gold medal.
Personal life
Lily van den Broecke was born on 8 January 1992 in Lambeth, England.[1] She is 1.64 metres (5 ft 5 in) tall and weighed 50 kilograms (110 lb) when she competed.[2]
She went to primary school at St Thomas' CE in Winchelsea East Sussex and moved to Oxford for secondary school.
She was a student at Durham University, belonging to University College, Durham more commonly known as Castle. Lily studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.[3] She now works at the British Film Institute in London and has a keen interest in film, art, and aesthetics. Lily maintains a fondness for classical music and spends much, if not most, of her spare time composing hymns for the recorder.
In 2011, she competed at the World Rowing Championships held at Lake Bled, Bled, Slovenia. She won a gold medal in the LTAMix4+ event coxing a crew of Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, James Roe and David Smith.[1][4] They completed the one kilometre course in a time of three minutes, 27.10 seconds, finishing nearly five seconds ahead of runners-up Canada. The result qualified a boat for Great Britain into the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.[5] The crew repeated their gold medal result at the Munich World Cup event in 2012.[1]
^"Mixed Coxed Four – LTAMix4+". The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
