Francis Julia Houghton ( Eng. Frances Julia Houghton ; born , ) - British rower , speaking for the UK team in rowing in the period 1996—2016. Silver medalist of the three summer Olympic Games, four-time world champion, European champion, winner and prize-winner of many regattas of national significance.
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| Club | Dragon school rowing club |
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| Growth | 193 cm |
| Weight | 80 kg |
Biography
Francis Houghton was born on September 19, 1980 in Oxford , England . She began to engage in rowing in 1993 while studying at school, and later trained in the rowing team at King’s College London .
She made her debut in rowing in the international arena in 1996 when she joined the British national team and competed at the World Junior Championships in Glasgow, where she took fourth place in the program of the fourth quarters. A year later, at the junior world championship in Hazewinkel, it was the fourth in the swing-back rudderless two. A year later, at similar competitions in Linz, she won a bronze medal in the pair of twos.
Since 1999 she has performed at the adult level, in particular, she started at the World Cup in Hazewinkel and Vienna.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she won the right to defend the honor of the country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , along with team-mate Sarah Winkles in the doubles, managed to qualify only for the consolation final B and placed in the final protocol of the competition on the ninth line.
In 2001, the pair of twos won at the World Cup stage in Vienna, whereas at the World Championships in Lucerne was far from prize positions.
In 2002, in the same discipline, she won the World Cup in Hazewinkel and Lucerne, while at the world championship in Seville became the fourth.
In 2003 at the World Championships in Milan she took the fourth place in the pair fours.
Being among the leaders of the UK rowing team, it successfully passed the selection for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens - in the program of the fours, it finished second behind the team from Germany and thus won the silver Olympic medal.
At three subsequent world championships, Hoton invariably became the champion in the fourth pair competition: 2005 in Gifu , 2006 in Eton, and 2007 in Munich . In addition, she won in this discipline at the most stages of the World Cup, in which she took part.
She participated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , where she again became the silver medalist in the fours, losing this time to the Chinese team.
At the 2010 World Championships, Karapiro won again in the fours, thus becoming a four-time world rowing champion.
In 2012, she was not able to be among the prize-winners at the home Olympic Games in London , showed the sixth result in the fours.
After the London Olympics, Hoton remained in the UK rowing team for another Olympic cycle and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 2013, she won in doubles at the World Cup in Eton and then competed at the World Championships in Chungju , where she took fourth place.
Having won the G8 European Championship in Brandenburg , she was selected for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the decisive final race, the 8s reached the finish of the second, losing about two and a half seconds to the US team, and thus added another silver Olympic medal to the track record. Soon after the end of this season, I decided to end my sports career [1] .
For outstanding sporting achievements in 2018, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Rio Olympics 2016: Great Britain and the BBC (13 August 2016). The appeal date is August 13, 2016.
- OW ROWING: Frances Houghton . www.oxfordmail.co.uk . The appeal date is January 4, 2019.
Links
- Francis Houghton - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Francis Houghton - profile on FISA website
- Francis Houghton (Eng.) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee