Lola Anderson
_2022.jpg) Anderson at the 2022 European Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 16 April 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Richmond-upon-Thames | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lola Anderson (born 16 April 1998) is a world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning British rower.[1] She was inspired to take up the sport as a teenager while watching Great Britain win four rowing golds at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, encouraged by her father, Don, a former university rower.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Anderson is from Richmond, Greater London and attended Surbiton High School. She graduated with a degree in English literature from Newcastle University.[3]
Career
[edit]Anderson won a gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships.[4] This was followed by a bronze medal at the 2022 World Rowing Championships.
In 2022, Anderson won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup (the premier women's singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for the Leander Club.[5]
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the Quadruple sculls with Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott and Georgina Brayshaw.[6]
She won a gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.[7]
Awards
[edit]She was awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to rowing.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Athlete profile". British Rowing. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ↑ Ames, Nick (27 July 2024). "'He chose to believe': Meet Lola Anderson, GB rower living her late father's Olympic dream". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ↑ "Lola Anderson". Leander Club. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
- ↑ "Britain's rowing quad to take on the Worlds after European gold". The Northern Echo. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ↑ "Diamond Challenge Sculls, List of past winners". Henley Royal Regatta. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ↑ "Rowing - World Championships - 2023". The Sports.org. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ↑ Ames, Nick (31 July 2024). "Team GB's women's quad boat roars back in rousing finish for stunning rowing gold". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ↑ Hardy, Ben. "New Year Honours list for Oxfordshire in full for 2025". This is Oxfordshire. Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
External links
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- Lola Anderson at World Rowing
- Lola Anderson at British Rowing
- Lola Anderson at Team GB
- Lola Anderson at Olympics.com
- Lola Anderson at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived)
- Lola Anderson on Instagram
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- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Olympic rowers for Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Surbiton High School
- Alumni of Newcastle University
- Sportspeople from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- 21st-century British sportswomen
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