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{{short description|Scottish rower (born 1975)}}
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* [[University of Glasgow]] (MPhil)
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| sport = Women's [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]]
| event = Double Sculls
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| club = [[St Andrew Boat Club]]
| coach = [[Paul Thompson (rower)|Paul Thompson]]
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{{MedalGold| [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London]] | [[Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's double sculls|Double sculls]]}}
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{{MedalSilver| [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]] | [[Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's coxless pair|Coxless pair]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]] | [[Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's quadruple sculls|Quadruple sculls]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[2016 Summer Olympics|2016 Rio de Janeiro]] | [[Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's double sculls|Double sculls]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Rowing Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2003 World Rowing Championships|2003 Milan]]|Coxless pair}}
{{MedalGold|[[2005 World Rowing Championships|2005 Gifu]]|Quadruple sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[2006 World Rowing Championships|2006 Eton]]|Quadruple sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[2007 World Rowing Championships|2007 Munich]]|Quadruple sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[2010 World Rowing Championships|2010 Karapiro]]|Double sculls}}
{{MedalGold|[[2011 World Rowing Championships|2011 Bled]]|Double sculls}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2009 World Rowing Championships|2009 Poznań]]|Single scull}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1997 World Rowing Championships|1997 Aiguebelette]] |Eight}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Rowing Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2015 European Rowing Championships|2015 Poznan]]|Double sculls}}
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|office1= [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of [[University of Glasgow]]
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'''Dame Katherine Jane Grainger''' (born 12 November 1975) is a Scottish athlete. She is a [[2012 Summer Olympics]] gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion for Great Britain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/4018/results/grainger-katherine |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140905010833/http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/4018/results/grainger-katherine |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 September 2014 |title=Katherine GRAINGER |website=Worldrowing.com |date=1975-11-12 |access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref> She served as Chancellor of [[Oxford Brookes University]] between 2015 and 2020 and is currently Chancellor of the [[University of Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dame Katherine Grainger to stand down as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University - Oxford Brookes University |url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/dame-katherine-grainger-to-stand-down-as-chancellor-of-oxford-brookes-university/ |website=Oxford Brookes University |access-date=26 June 2020 |archive-date=26 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626090802/https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/dame-katherine-grainger-to-stand-down-as-chancellor-of-oxford-brookes-university/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Olympian to become Glasgow university chancellor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-51806981 |website=BBC News |access-date=26 June 2020 |date=9 March 2020}}</ref>

Grainger first won silver at the Sydney Olympics in [[Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000]] in the woman's [[Quad scull|quadruple sculls]]. In Athens in [[Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004]], she won silver in the [[Coxless pair|coxless pairs]]. In Beijing [[Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]] she won her third silver, again in the quadruple sculls.

At the London Olympics [[Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics|2012]], [[Anna Watkins]] and Grainger broke the Olympic record as they qualified for the double sculls final, before winning the gold medal. Grainger won a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games [[2016 Summer Olympics|2016]] with [[Victoria Thornley]], after a two-year break from the sport. Grainger won eight medals at the World Championship between 1997 and 2011.

==Early life and education==
Born in Glasgow in 1975, she attended Mosshead Primary School prior to attending [[Bearsden Academy]] in East Dunbartonshire near Glasgow. Grainger's family later moved to [[Netherley, Aberdeenshire|Netherley]], [[Aberdeenshire]].{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

Grainger holds a [[Bachelor of Laws]] (LLB) from the [[University of Edinburgh]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alumna Katherine Grainger becomes most decorated British female Olympian {{!}} Edinburgh Law School|url=https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/news/alumna-katherine-grainger-becomes-most-decorated-british-female-olympian|access-date=2021-08-02|website=www.law.ed.ac.uk}}</ref> a [[Master of Philosophy]] (MPhil) in Medical Law and Medical Ethics from the [[University of Glasgow]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glasgow University honour for gold-winner Katherine Grainger|url=https://www.scotsman.com/education/glasgow-university-honour-gold-winner-katherine-grainger-1596790|access-date=2021-08-02|website=www.scotsman.com|date=17 December 2012 |language=en}}</ref> and a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in law from [[King's College London]].<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=King's College London|url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-whole-life-order(778ad7dc-8e4c-41f0-b326-35ab1806eaf4).html|title=The 'whole life order' : its genesis, the challenges it both poses and faces, and its uncertain future|first= Katherine Jane|last=Grainger|date=2013|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.733314}}|website=kcl.ac.uk|oclc=1027309793}}</ref> Her doctoral research (on "the genesis and challenges of the whole life order, introduced in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, under which those sentenced face life-long incarceration with no possibility of release"<ref>{{cite web |title=Katherine Grainger |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dame-katherine-grainger |website=www.kcl.ac.uk |access-date=7 January 2023}}</ref>) was supervised by Elaine Player and [[Ben Bowling]].<ref name=phd/> In July 2013, King's made Grainger a fellow.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://katherinegrainger.com/profile/|title=Profile - Dame Katherine Grainger DBE|work=Dame Katherine Grainger DBE|access-date=2018-03-09|language=en-GB}}</ref> She remarked, "Without planning it both my Olympic career and my PhD have met at the same time and the culmination for both is 2012&nbsp;– not by design."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/17601216 |title=London 2012: Katherine Grainger on turning silver into gold |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=2012-04-12 |access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref>

==Career==

===Rowing===
Grainger took up rowing at the University of Edinburgh in 1993 and represented Edinburgh's [[St Andrew Boat Club]] and/or [[Marlow Rowing Club]] in rowing events. She trained on the [[River Dee, Aberdeenshire|River Dee]].

She first won silver at Sydney in [[Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000]] in the woman's quadruple sculls with [[Guin Batten]], [[Gillian Lindsay]] and [[Miriam Batten]] losing to a German team. Four years later in Athens in [[Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004]], she won silver again when she took part in the coxless pairs with [[Cath Bishop]], losing to [[Georgeta Damian]] and [[Viorica Susanu]] of [[Romania]]. She returned to the quadruple sculls in Beijing [[Rowing at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]], when she won her third silver with [[Annabel Vernon]], [[Debbie Flood]] and [[Frances Houghton]], narrowly losing to [[China]] after taking the lead for some of the race. On 3 August 2012, she won an Olympic gold medal at London in the double sculls with [[Anna Watkins]]. At the 2016 Olympics, she won a silver medal in double sculls with [[Vicky Thornley]].

Grainger has won eight medals at the World Championships. The first of these was a bronze in 1997 in the eight, then a gold with Bishop in 2003, a gold in 2005 with the quadruple scull, with Houghton, [[Sarah Winckless]], and [[Rebecca Romero]], and in 2006 her quadruple scull was promoted to gold following a drugs test on the winning Russian crew. This quad had Debbie Flood instead of Romero, who had retired after the 2005 world championships.

Another gold came in 2007, again in the quadruple sculls, with Annabel Vernon replacing the injured Sarah Winckless. In 2009, having switched to the single scull after the Beijing Olympics, Grainger claimed a surprise silver at the World Championships in Poland. In 2010, Grainger teamed up with [[Anna Watkins]] in the double sculls and they embarked on an unbeaten season, culminating in victory in November in the World Championships in Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, and then defending the title in an injury disrupted season in 2011 in Bled, Slovenia.

She has won the Rowing World Cup in the quadruple sculls in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010 and the double sculls in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

On 14 March 2015, Grainger was part of the composite crew that won the [[Women's Eights Head of the River Race]] on the River Thames in London, setting a time of 18:58.6 for the {{convert|4+1/4|mi|km|abbr=off|adj=on}} [[The Championship Course|championship course]] from [[Mortlake]] to [[Putney]].<ref name="2015 Head results">{{cite web|url=http://www.wehorr.org/results.htm |title=Women's Head of the River Race |access-date=2013-07-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815011837/http://www.wehorr.org/results.htm |archive-date=15 August 2013}}</ref> Her GB rowing team senior final trials results include:
*2015 - 2nd, Single Scull<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishrowing.org/news/2015/november/2/gregory-and-sbihi-are-top-guns-boston|title=Gregory and Sbihi are top guns in Boston|publisher=British Rowing|access-date=11 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105021803/http://www.britishrowing.org/news/2015/november/2/gregory-and-sbihi-are-top-guns-boston|archive-date=5 November 2015}}</ref>
*2012 – 1st, Single Scull
*2011 – 2nd, Single Scull
*2004–2010 – 1st, Single Scull
*2001 – 1st, Double Scull
*1998 – 1st, Single Scull
Following retirement, Grainger also regularly raced at the [[Head of the Charles Regatta|HOCR]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Regatta|url=https://www.hocr.org/the-regatta/|access-date=2021-07-06|website=Head Of The Charles® Regatta|language=en-US}}</ref> in Boston in a 'Director's Challenge Mixed 8' made up of a crew containing several past rowing Olympians and in 2019 they placed 1st in this event.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Directors' Challenge Mixed Eight 55th Head Of The Charles|url=https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/results2/eventResults.jsp?job_id=6141&event_id=66|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.regattacentral.com}}</ref>

=== Administration===
In April 2017, Grainger was appointed chair of [[UK Sport]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/39673253 |title=Katherine Grainger: UK Sport names Olympic gold medallist as new chair |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=2017-04-21 |access-date=2017-06-20}}</ref> She was reappointed for a second term on 1 July 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dame Katherine Grainger reappointed for a second term as UK Sport Chair|url=https://www.uksport.gov.uk/news/2021/06/30/dame-katherine-grainger-reappointed-for-second-term|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.uksport.gov.uk}}</ref> In March 2015, Grainger was appointed the fourth chancellor of [[Oxford Brookes University]], at a ceremony joined by her three predecessors, [[Shami Chakrabarti]] CBE, [[Jon Snow (journalist)|Jon Snow]] and Baroness [[Helena Kennedy]] QC.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/welcoming-our-new-chancellor-on-an-extra-special-day/ |title=Welcoming our new Chancellor on an extra special day. - Oxford Brookes University |website=Brookes.ac.uk |date=2015-03-24 |access-date=2016-08-11 |archive-date=15 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715174805/https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/news/welcoming-our-new-chancellor-on-an-extra-special-day/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 28 November 2024 it was announced that Grainger will become the new chair of the [[British Olympic Association]] (BOA) on completion of her final term as chair of UK Sport in 2025.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.teamgb.com/article/dame-katherine-grainger-elected-as-chair-of-the-british-olympic-association/39kNGyX3tBoTsuXTar7kJ7 |title=Dame Katherine Grainger elected as Chair of the British Olympic Association |website=teamgb.com |date=2024-11-28}}</ref> She will replace the incumbent Sir [[Hugh Robertson (politician)|Hugh Robertson]],  becoming the first female chair of the BOA since its establishment in 1905.

===Charity work===
Grainger is a board member for the Youth Sport Trust,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our leaders - Youth Sport Trust|url=https://www.youthsporttrust.org/about/our-people/our-leaders|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.youthsporttrust.org|language=en}}</ref> the British Olympic Association's Athlete Commission<ref>{{Cite web|title=Athletes' Commission|url=https://www.teamgb.com/athletes-commission/6BRUPNH0jaU54y7yx1TsPZ|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.teamgb.com|language=en-gb}}</ref> and is a Patron for Netball Scotland,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Patron and President|url=https://www.netballscotland.com/about/ns-patron/|access-date=2021-07-06|website=Netball Scotland|date=28 July 2017 }}</ref> Winning Scotland, the NCI<ref>{{Cite web|title=Patrons {{!}} National Coastwatch Institution|url=https://www.nci.org.uk/content/patrons|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.nci.org.uk|archive-date=25 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725144048/https://www.nci.org.uk/content/patrons|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Aberlour children's charity.

Grainger was previously a board member of International Inspiration (2012-2017), a charity that promoted access to sport, play, and physical exercise for low- and middle-income families with children around the world. It was the first international development legacy initiative linked to an Olympic and Paralympic Games.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalinspiration.org/international-inspiration-acknowledged-historic-un-resolution |title=Committed to human and social development |publisher=International Inspiration |access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref> International Inspiration's board members included British broadcaster [[David Davies (football administrator)|David Davies]], former UK government minister [[Andrew Mitchell]], and Sir [[Sebastian Coe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalinspiration.org/meet-board|title=Meet the board|publisher=International Inspiration|access-date=1 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021071956/http://www.internationalinspiration.org/meet-board|archive-date=21 October 2014}}</ref>

In 2014 she judged the category prize 'dreams' for the [[Koestler Trust]]'s annual exhibition "Catching Dreams", curated by previous Koestler award entrants. The exhibition at the [[Southbank Centre]] presented art works by prisoners, detainees and ex-offenders.

===House of Lords===
On 17 June 2025, it was announced that she was to be awarded a [[life peerage]], and will sit in the [[House of Lords]] as a [[crossbencher]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Crossbench Peerages June 2025 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/crossbench-peerages-june-2025 |website=GOV.UK |publisher=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street |access-date=18 June 2025 |language=en |date=17 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250618125556/https://www.gov.uk/government/news/crossbench-peerages-june-2025 |archive-date=18 June 2025}}</ref>

==Honours and awards==
Grainger was elected President of the [[Edinburgh University Boat Club]] in 1996/97. She twice received the [[Edinburgh University Sports Union|Edinburgh University Sports Union's]] Eva Bailey Cup for the university's most outstanding female athlete in 1995/96 and 1996/97<ref>{{Cite web|title=Profile|url=http://katherinegrainger.com/profile/|access-date=2021-08-02|website=Dame Katherine Grainger DBE|language=en-GB}}</ref> and was inducted to the University's Sports Hall of Fame on 29 May 2008.

She was elected as honorary president of the [[Scottish Amateur Rowing Association]] in November 2005, and a steward of [[Henley Royal Regatta]] in 2008, only the third rower to be elected while still competing.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/7775414.stm |title=BBC SPORT &#124; Olympics &#124; Grainger to row on in gold hunt |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2008-12-12 |access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref>

She was appointed [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours, [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing,<ref name="Gazette">{{London Gazette |issue=60367 |date=29 December 2012 |page=24 |supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/NY2013-honours-London-2012.pdf|title= 2013 New Year's Honours|access-date=29 December 2012}}</ref> and [[Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (DBE) in the [[2017 New Year Honours]] for services to sport and charity.<ref name="NY2017"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61803 |supp=y|page=N8|date=31 December 2016}}</ref>
[[File:Aberdeen- postbox № AB11 127, Castlegate (geograph 3802274).jpg|thumb|Gold postbox in Aberdeen, Scotland, painted in celebration of Grainger's 2012 Olympic gold win.]]
In August 2012, a postbox in Aberdeen was painted gold to celebrate her 2012 Olympic gold medal.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2012-08-03|title=Grainger gold 'is worth the wait'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19116056|access-date=2020-08-02}}</ref>

In March 2013, she became patron of the National Coastwatch Institution.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nci.org.uk/content/new-patron-nci|title=New Patron For NCI|access-date=11 November 2015|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025105007/https://www.nci.org.uk/content/new-patron-nci|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In June 2017, Grainger was awarded an [[honorary doctorate]] by the [[University of Aberdeen]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://plus.google.com/+universityofaberdeen/posts/6ZBusHeCULd |title = Sign in - Google Accounts}}</ref>

In July 2017, it was announced that the trophy awarded to the winners of the Senior Women's competition at the [[Home International Regatta]] would be known as Dame Katherine Grainger [[Quaich]].  The first winners of the trophy were Scotland.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scotland's women awarded Dame Katherine Grainger Quaich|url=http://www.scottish-rowing.org.uk/index.php/news/563-hir17sw|website=Scottish Rowing|access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref>

In 2020 she was appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, in succession to Professor Sir Kenneth Calman. She is the first woman to hold the office at Glasgow University, founded in 1451.

In January 2024 she was appointed an Honorary Colonel of the 215 (Scottish) Multirole Medical Regiment, Army Reserve.<ref>{{London Gazette|supp=y|page=3869|issue=64327|date=27 February 2024}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{World Rowing}}
* {{Team GB}}
* {{Olympics.com}}
* {{Olympedia}}

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