Heather Stanning

Heather Stanning
Personal information
Full nameHeather Mary Stanning
NationalityBritish
Born (1985-01-26) 26 January 1985
Yeovil, Somerset, England
Height181 cm (5 ft 11 in) (2012)
Weight75 kg (165 lb) (2012)
Sport
Country Great Britain
SportRowing
EventWomen's coxless pair
Turned pro2009
PartnerHelen Glover
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2012 LondonW2-
2016 Rio de JaneiroW2-
World Championships
2014 AmsterdamW2−
2015 AiguebeletteW2–
2010 Lake KarapiroW2-
2011 Lake BledW2-
World Rowing Cup
2011 MunichW2-
2011 LucerneW2-
2012 BelgradeW2-
2012 LucerneW2-
2012 MunichW2-
2014 Lac d'AiguebeletteW2-
2014 LucerneW2-
2015 Lake VareseW2-
2015 LucerneW2-
2016 PoznańW2-
European Championships
2015 PoznańW2−
2016 Brandenburg an der HavelW2−
World Rowing U23 Championships
2007 GlasgowW2−

Heather Mary Stanning (born 26 January 1985) is a retired British professional rower. As a member of the Great Britain rowing team, she is a double Olympic champion, double World champion, quadruple World Cup champion and double European champion. She has also been a British champion in both women's fours and quad sculls.

Paired with Helen Glover in 2012, she won an Olympic gold medal, the first for their country of the 2012 Olympiad and the first ever British Olympic gold medal in women's rowing. She set the world record time in partnership with Helen Glover at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, and they retained their World title at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France.

In 2016, they retained their European title at Brandenburg an der Havel, set the World Rowing Cup record time at Poznań and again won gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She was ranked the number 1 female rower in the world in 2016 and announced her retirement from rowing in November 2016.

She is a British Army officer and currently holds the rank of Major in the Royal Artillery; she was given dispensation from the army to pursue an Olympic career with the British team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2016 Summer Olympics.