Great Britain’s Olympic rowing medals, 2012 to 2024
Great Britain has won 78 Olympic rowing medals up to and including Paris 2024: 34 gold, 27 silver and 17 bronze. Rowing produced a British gold medal at every Games from 1984 to 2016.
This page lists the medals from the last four Games.
Summary
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London 2012 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Rio 2016 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Tokyo 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Paris 2024 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
Paris 2024
Eight medals made this the best British result at a Games held overseas. Of the 42 rowers selected, 36 came home with a medal. Great Britain finished second in the rowing medal table behind the Netherlands.
| Medal | Boat | Crew |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | Women’s quadruple scull | Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson, Georgie Brayshaw |
| Gold | Lightweight women’s double scull | Emily Craig, Imogen Grant |
| Gold | Men’s eight | |
| Silver | Women’s four | Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Rebecca Shorten, Samantha Redgrave |
| Silver | Men’s pair | Ollie Wynne-Griffith, Tom George |
| Bronze | Women’s double scull | Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, Rebecca Wilde |
| Bronze | Men’s four | Oli Wilkes, David Ambler, Matt Aldridge, Freddie Davidson |
| Bronze | Women’s eight |
The women’s quad won on the last stroke. Craig and Grant were the last Olympic champions in their event, because lightweight rowing was dropped from the programme after Paris. The bronze in the women’s eight was only the second British medal ever won in that boat.
Tokyo 2020
| Medal | Boat |
|---|---|
| Silver | Men’s quadruple scull |
| Bronze | Men’s eight |
Tokyo was the first Games since 1980 at which British rowers won no gold medal.
Rio 2016
| Medal | Boat |
|---|---|
| Gold | Women’s pair |
| Gold | Men’s four |
| Gold | Men’s eight |
| Silver | Women’s double scull |
| Silver | Women’s eight |
Great Britain topped the rowing medal table for the third Games in a row.
London 2012
| Medal | Boat |
|---|---|
| Gold | Women’s pair |
| Gold | Women’s double scull |
| Gold | Men’s four |
| Gold | Lightweight women’s double scull |
| Silver | Lightweight men’s double scull |
| Silver | Lightweight men’s four |
| Bronze | Men’s single scull |
| Bronze | Men’s pair |
| Bronze | Men’s eight |
London was the most successful Games in the team’s history, with nine medals. The win in the women’s pair was the first Olympic gold won by British women rowers. The regatta was held at Dorney Lake, which now hosts the Metropolitan and Marlow regattas.
Most decorated rowers
Sir Steve Redgrave is the most decorated British Olympic rower, with five gold medals and a bronze from five successive Games. Dame Katherine Grainger is the most decorated British woman, with a gold and four silvers from five successive Games.
The link to Henley
Olympic crews often race at Henley Royal Regatta under club names. In 2009 the British eight won the Grand Challenge Cup as Leander Club and Molesey Boat Club. In an Olympic summer most squads stay away from Henley, as they did in 2008 and 2012.