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Scottish rower (born 1973)

Gillian Lindsay

Lindsay in 1999
Personal information
National team Great Britain
Born (1973-09-24) 24 September 1973 (age 51)Paisley, Scotland
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Sport
Sport Women's rowing
Event(s) Double Sculls, Quadruple Sculls
Club Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club, Marlow Rowing Club
Coached by Mike Spracklen
Medal record Representing Great Britain Women's rowing Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 1 1 0 Total 1 2 0 Olympic Games Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Quadruple sculls World Championships Gold medal – first place 1998 Cologne Double scull Silver medal – second place 1997 Aiguebelette Double scull

Gillian Lindsay (born 24 September 1973, in Paisley) is a former Team GB Scottish rower. She won silver in the quadruple sculls at the 2000 Summer Olympics silver medalist, and two-time medal winner in the World Championships, taking silver in the double sculls in 1997 and gold in 1998. Since her retirement in 2001,[1] she has focused on coaching and commentating.

Encouraged by her former PE teacher, Gillian began rowing at age 13 while a pupil at St Andrew's Academy, Paisley.[2] She trained at Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club[3] before being selected to join the senior GB international team at age 18[4] where she was coached by Mike Spracklen.[5] She had her first taste of the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, as part of in the women's coxless fours, coming in eighth.[6] In 1997, she and partner Miriam Batten took silver in the double sculls at the 1997 World Rowing Championships at Aiguebelette-le-Lac.[7] The following year, they won gold at the 1998 World Rowing Championships at Cologne.[8] She won silver at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, in the woman's quadruple sculls alongside crewmates Guin Batten, Katherine Grainger and Miriam Batten. At the time of her retirement from competition she was Britain's most successful woman sculler of all time.[9]

She was Head of Rowing at The Lady Eleanor Holles School until moving on to teach Sports science at The Mount School, York in 2014.[10] She is currently Head of Rowing at Wimbledon High School.[11]

She is a regular expert commentator on rowing events for Eurosport sports network.[12]

In 2021, Gillian won the Scottish Women in Sport Pioneer Award,[13] given in recognition of 'a woman/women or team who through their work in sport, which would largely have gone unrecognised, whether on or off the field, has empowered and inspired women and girls to participate in sport today'.[14] She was presented with her award by her former crewmate, Katherine Grainger, who was guest of honour at the event.[15]

  1. ^ "Olympic rower Gillian Lindsay shows how rowing keeps her trim". Bucks Free Press. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Rowing gives Gillian a basket of dreams". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  3. ^ "History". Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  4. ^ "StackPath". www.wimbledonhigh.gdst.net. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  5. ^ "1998 World Rowing Championships". Rowing Story. 29 March 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Gillian Lindsay Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". 7 September 2011. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  7. ^ "World Rowing - 1997 World Rowing Championships - Lac/Aiguebelette, France". World Rowing. Retrieved 19 February 2022.[_permanent dead link_]
  8. ^ "World Rowing - 1998 World Rowing Championships - Fuehlingersee/Cologne, Germany". World Rowing. Retrieved 19 February 2022.[_permanent dead link_]
  9. ^ "Olympians join the team at The Mount School". York Press. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  10. ^ "The Mount School in York has appointed Olympic Silver Medallist rower, Gillian Lindsay, as their new Director of Sport and Wellbeing". York Boarding Schools Group. 16 June 2014. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  11. ^ "Introducing our new Head of Rowing". Wimbledon High School. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  12. ^ "Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Team GB's swimmers are relentless, Andy Murray departs, Simone Biles out – Tokyo Warm-Up". Eurosport UK. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  13. ^ Scott, Hannah (9 December 2021). "Blog 76: SW/S Awards 2021 – The Debrief". Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  14. ^ "SW/S Awards Nominations". Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  15. ^ "Why we recognise the fantastic efforts of Scotland's women in sport". The National. Retrieved 19 February 2022.