Annabel Vernon
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born | 1 September 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Annabel ('Annie') Morwenna Vernon (born 1 September 1982 in Truro, Cornwall) is an English rower.
She was educated at St Minver Primary School then Wadebridge School,[1] Downing College, Cambridge and King's College London (MA International Relations).
Annie started rowing at Castle Dore Rowing Club at Golant in Cornwall when she was 17; influenced by her elder brother and father. She read History at Downing College, Cambridge where she rowed in the women's Blue Boat in 2003,[2] under the presidency of Ruth de Las Casas. She was a member of Rob Roy Boat Club while in Cambridge, then represented Thames Rowing Club and now rows under Marlow Rowing Club colours.
She is extremely proud to represent Cornwall; her blades for her training scull are painted to represent the Saint Piran's Flag and she often carries the flag onto the podium with her.[citation needed]
She represented Great Britain in the Women's Quadruple Sculls at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, winning a silver medal.[3] She was selected to row in the women's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4] The crew reached the A Final of the event, in which it finished fifth.[5]
Achievements
- Bronze medal in the pair at the World U23 Championships in Poznań.
- Sixth in the women's single at the 2006 GB Senior Selection Trials in Belgium.
World Championships 2005
- Ninth in the single scull.
2006 World Cup Series
World Championships 2006
- Fourth in the Double Scull.
World Championships 2007
- Gold in the Quad Scull
Beijing Olympics 2008
- Silver in the Quad Scull.
World Championships 2009
- Silver in the Double Scull
World Championships 2010
- Gold in the Quad Scull
References
- ^ "Annabel Vernon". leander.co.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
- ^ ["Annabel Vernon". Retrieved 17 July 2011].
{{cite web}}
: Check date values in:|accessdate=
(help) - ^ Olympic results
- ^ "London 2012: Great Britain name powerful rowing squad". Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ^ Olympic results
External links
- 1982 births
- British rowers
- People from Wadebridge
- Living people
- Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
- Alumni of King's College London
- Olympic rowers of Great Britain
- Olympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- People from Truro
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Female rowers
- Cornwall stubs
- British rowing biography stubs