Imogen Grant


Imogen Daisy Grant is a British lightweight world and Olympic champion rower.

Early life

Grant was brought up in Bar Hill, Cambridge, where she attended The Perse School for Girls before studying medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Rowing

Grant won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in the lightweight single sculls and the following year she won another bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria but this time as part of the lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.
In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the lightweight double sculls in Varese, Italy.
With the Cambridge squad, she won the 2022 Oxford–Cambridge University Boat Race.
At the 2022 World Cup III regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, she won gold and set a new world's best time in women's lightweight singles of 7:23.36.
She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Double Sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships and the 2022 World Rowing Championships.
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls with Emily Craig.

Olympic gold medal

At the 2024 Summer Olympics Grant and Emily Craig won the gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls, the final time that the event was held at the Olympic Games.

MBE

She was awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to rowing.

Other career

Grant has a degree in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and Medicine, and master's degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the University of Cambridge. She started a career as a medical doctor in August 2024.