Sophie Hosking

Sophie Hosking
Personal information
Full nameSophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking
NationalityBritish
Born (1986-01-25) 25 January 1986 (age 38)
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Lwt double sculls
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2007 Munich LW4x
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Eton LW4x
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Poznań LW2x
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Bled LW2x

Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking MBE (born 25 January 1986) is a retired British rower.

Personal life

Hosking was born in 1986. The lightweight rower David Hosking is her father.[1] As a teenager, she played as a midfielder for the youth team of Wimbledon Ladies.[2] She attended Kingston Grammar School in London, before completing an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics at Trevelyan College, Durham University, graduating in 2007.[3] Following her retirement from competitive rowing, Hosking embarked on a new career as a solicitor and is now the UK Head of Legal at Cazoo.[4]

Rowing career

She is a member of the London Rowing Club in Putney.[5] A fixture in British lightweight sculling since 2007, Hosking won a surprise gold medal for Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics lightweight double sculls, along with Kat Copeland.[6] Hosking and Copeland's success was the second of six gold medals won by Great Britain on the middle Saturday of the 2012 Games, on what became known in the United Kingdom as Super Saturday.

She was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, where she won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight double sculls with Hester Goodsell.[7]

Awards

Hosking was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Barretto, Lawrence (18 June 2013). "Olympic rowing champion Sophie Hosking retires". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Sophie shows her true colours". AFC Wimbledon. 3 August 2012. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  3. ^ Hosking, Sophie. "Team GB Rowing Biographies". Archived from the original on 14 April 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  4. ^ Hosking, Sophie. "Linkedin Profile". Linkedin.
  5. ^ "Sophie Hosking through to lightweight double sculls final (From Wandsworth Guardian)". wandsworthguardian.co.uk.
  6. ^ "Olympics rowing: Sophie Hosking & Katherine Copeland win gold". BBC Sport. 4 August 2012.
  7. ^ "2011 World Rowing Championships". WorldRowing.com. World Rowing Federation. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  8. ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 25.
  9. ^ "London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Honours" (PDF). Cabinet Office.


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