Alison Knowles (rower)
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Full name | Alison Margaret Knowles | ||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||
Born | Bournemouth | 27 March 1982||||||||||||||||
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Alison Margaret Knowles (born 27 March 1982 in Bournemouth) is a British rower who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Rowing career[]
Knowles competed in the women's eight at the 2008 Olympics Games but could not row in the final due to illness.[1]
She was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, where she won a bronze medal as part of the eight with Jo Cook, Jessica Eddie, Louisa Reeve, Natasha Page, Lindsey Maguire, Katie Greves, Victoria Thornley and Caroline O'Connor.[2]
External links[]
- Alison Knowles at World Rowing (archived)
References[]
- ^ "Biographical information". Olympedia.
- ^ "2011 World Rowing Championships". WorldRowing.com. World Rowing Federation. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alison Knowles". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
Categories:
- 1982 births
- Living people
- English female rowers
- Sportspeople from Bournemouth
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers of Great Britain
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
- British rowing biography stubs