Lucy Spoors
New Zealand rower (born 1990)
Lucy Spoors
Born (1990-12-24 ) 24 December 1990 (age 34) Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[ 1] Relative Phoebe Spoors (sister)Country New Zealand Sport Rowing Event(s) Quadruple sculls, Coxless four, Eight
Lucy Spoors (born 24 December 1990) is a New Zealand rower . She is a 2019 world champion winning the women's eight title at the 2019 World Rowing Championships .
Private life
Spoors was born in 1990.[ 1] She received her secondary education at Christchurch Girls' High School [ 2] and started rowing in 2005.[ 3] She has younger twin sisters, Grace and Phoebe (born 1993), who both took up rowing, too.[ 4]
Rowing career
Her first international competition was at the 2007 World Rowing Junior Championships in Beijing , China, where her junior women's quad sculls team came sixth.[ 5] At the 2008 World Rowing Junior Championships in Linz , Austria, she competed with the junior women's four and won gold.[ 6] She transitioned to the U23 team for the 2009 season and competed with the U23 women's quad sculls; they came fourth at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Račice , Czech Republic, that year.[ 7] Spoors competed in the same boat class at the 2010 World Rowing U23 Championships in Brest , Belarus, and the team came tenth that year.[ 8] Three months later, Spoors competed for the first time at elite level. The 2010 World Rowing Championships were held on Lake Karapiro near Cambridge , New Zealand. Only four women's four team were competing, and the New Zealand squad came last.[ 9]
In the following year, Spoors returned to the U23 level and at the 2011 World Rowing U23 Championships in Amsterdam , Netherlands, the U23 women's quad sculls team came fourth.[ 10] The same boat class went to the 2012 World Rowing U23 Championships in Trakai , Lithuania, and her team won a bronze medal.[ 11]
Spoors made the selection to the women's elite team in 2014. In the women's quad sculls, the team came fifth at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam , Netherlands.[ 12] At the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette , France, the quad sculls team came sixth.[ 13] To qualify the women's quadruple sculls for the 2016 Rio Olympics , the team had to achieve a top-two finish at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne , Switzerland, but they came third.[ 14] [ 15] [ 16]
She won a bronze medal with the New Zealand women's eight at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida .[ 1]
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1974 : (Dobler , Lehmann , Richter , Schwede , Ahrenholz , Müller , Blanke , Mosig , cox Brincker )
1975 : (Goretzki , Knetsch , Richter , Schwede , Kallies , Neu , Nitsche , Mosig , cox Wilke )
1977 : (Bügel , Steindorf , Lohs , Neisser , Sandig , Kurth , Schwede , Metze , cox Heß )
1978 : (Yermakova , Paziun , Antoniuk , Bunjak , Dergatchenko , Umanets , Tereshina , Pivovarova , cox Frolova )
1979 : (Antoniuk , Bunjak , Dergatchenko , Yermakova , Paziun , Tereshina , Umanets , Pivovarova , cox Frolova )
1981 : (Baltutite , Teterina , Tereshina , Yatsenko , Makushkina , Shvetsova , Umanets , Paziun , cox Frolova )
1982 : (Makushkina , Konopleva , Umanets , Tereshina , Yatsenko , Studneva , Doligaida , Stone , cox Frolova )
1983 : (Stone , Averyanova , Konopleva , Studneva , Umanets , Tereshina , Yatsenko , Makushkina , cox Khokhlova )
1985 : (Pukhayeva , Zakyrova , Tereshina , Suprun , Znak , Teterina , Yatsenko , Averyanova , cox Khokhlova )
1986 : (Tereshina , Suprun , Sakirova , Pukhayeva , Znak , Teterina , Averyanova , Tsessiunaite , cox Khokhlova )
1987 : (Vîrlan , Trașcă , Țicanu , Arba , Chelariu , Necula , Homeghi , Toader , cox Oancia )
1989 : (Bălan , Curelea , Tănase , Soare , Chelariu , Neculai , Leonte , Armășescu , cox Oancia )
1990 : (Șnep , Bobeică , Burcică , Cochela , Curela , Oprea , Popescu , Ciucanu-Robu , cox Nedelcu )
1991 : (Barnes , Delehanty , Doey , Heddle , Mahon , McBean , Monroe , Taylor , cox Thompson )
1993 : (Alupei , Bobeică , Cochela , Doroftei , Ignat , Neculai , Olteanu , Tănase , cox Ilie )
1994 : (Haacker , Klapheck , Schmidt , Martin , Pyritz , Rehaag , Wagner , Werremeier , cox Schnell )
1995 : (Dore , Fallon , Fuller , Kakela , Korholz , E. McCagg , M. McCagg , Tranel-Michini , cox Farooq )
1997 : (Damian , Susanu , Olteanu , Cazac , Gafencu , Cochela , Ignat , Tănase , cox Georgescu )
1998 : (Cazac , Cochela , Damian , Dumitrache , Gafencu , Ignat , Olteanu , Susanu , cox Georgescu )
1999 : (Damian , Dumitrache , Ignat , Olteanu , Popescu , Spîrcu , Susanu , Bărăscu , cox Georgescu )
2001 : (Winter , Lutz , Wilson , Robinson , Martin , Sattin , Roberts , Larsen , cox Bilson )
2002 : (Johnson , Peirce , Davies , Urtasun , Marten , Cox , Mickelson , Mackenzie , cox Whipple )
2003 : (Hipler , Pyritz , Tucholke , Holthaus , Schmidt , Zimmermann , Günther , Wech , cox Ruppel )
2005 : (Outhwaite , Selby Smith , Mills , Hornsey , Martin , Chew , Frasca , Heard , cox Patrick )
2006 : (Sickler , Cooke , Goodale , Shoop , Mickelson , Francia , Lind , Davies , cox Whipple )
2007 : (Sickler , Shoop , Goodale , Magee , Mickelson , Francia , Lind , Davies , cox Whipple )
2009 : (Cafaro , Allen , Larsen-Strecker , Francia , Goodale , Shoop , Lind , Glessner , cox Snyder )
2010 : (Goodale , Polk , Redman , Ritzel , Lofgren , Logan , Musnicki , Glessner , cox Whipple )
2011 : (Lofgren , Francia , Musnicki , Ritzel , Redman , Polk , Lind , Logan , cox Whipple )
2013 : (Polk , Simmonds , Regan , Schmetterling , Luczak , Musnicki , Opitz , Lind , cox Snyder )
2014 : (Opitz , Musnicki , Polk , Schmetterling , Luczak , Lind , Logan , Robbins , cox Snyder )
2015 : (Opitz , Musnicki , Polk , Schmetterling , Regan , Simmonds , Gobbo , Robbins , cox Snyder )
2017 : (Vrînceanu , Bejinariu , Petrilă , Popa , Bereș , Tîlvescu , Boguș , Oprea , cox Druncea )
2018 : (O'Brien , Mueller , Opitz , Doonan , Moffat , Eisser , Regan , Coffey , cox Guregian )
2019 : (Greenslade , Dyke , Spoors , Bevan , Prendergast , Williams , Ross , Gowler , cox Shepherd )
2022 : (Rusu , Buhuș , Ailincăi , Tivodariu , M. Bereș , A. Bereș , Vrînceanu , Radiș , cox Petreanu )
2023 : (Rusu , Anghel , Adam , Buhuș , M. Bereș , Tivodariu , Vrînceanu , A. Bereș , cox Petreanu )