Lily van den Broecke
London, England
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2012 London | LTAMix4+ | |
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2011 Bled | LTAMix4+ |
Lily Jacoba van den Broecke MBE (born 8 January 1992) is a British rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics as the coxswain in the mixed coxed four for Great Britain, and won the gold medal.
Personal life
Lily van den Broecke was born on 8 January 1992 in Lambeth, England.[1] She is 1.64 metres (5 ft 5 in) tall and weighed 50 kilograms (110 lb) when she competed.[2] She went to primary school at St Thomas' CE in Winchelsea East Sussex and moved to Oxford for secondary school. She was a student at Durham University, belonging to University College, Durham more commonly known as Castle. Lily studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.[3] She now works at the British Film Institute in London and has a keen interest in film, art, and aesthetics. Lily maintains a fondness for classical music and spends much, if not most, of her spare time composing hymns for the recorder.
Rowing
She began rowing when she attended Headington School, Oxford. After competing in sculling for four years she tried out as a cox. In 2009, she coxed the junior women's eight crew to fourth place at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival and a gold medal at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in Vichy, France. In 2010, she won a gold medal coxing the junior women's eight at the World Rowing Junior Championships in Račice, Czech Republic. This was the first ever junior women's gold medal for the Great Britain Rowing Team.[1]
In 2011, she competed at the World Rowing Championships held at Lake Bled, Bled, Slovenia. She won a gold medal in the LTAMix4+ event coxing a crew of Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, James Roe and David Smith.[1][4] They completed the one kilometre course in a time of three minutes, 27.10 seconds, finishing nearly five seconds ahead of runners-up Canada. The result qualified a boat for Great Britain into the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.[5] The crew repeated their gold medal result at the Munich World Cup event in 2012.[1]
She was selected to cox the crew of Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, James Roe and David Smith in the mixed coxed four event for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[6][7] The event took place between 31 August and 2 September at Eton Dorney in Buckinghamshire,[8] and the GB crew won the gold medal.
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing and Paralympic sport.[9][10]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Lily van den Broecke". British Paralympic Association. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ "Lily van den Broecke Biography". British Rowing. Archived from the original on 27 August 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ "Lily van den Broecke Biography". Durham University News. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ "World Rowing: GB mixed coxed four win adaptive gold". BBC Sport. 4 September 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "Wham, bam thank you Pam as rower gets gold to set up London 2012 dream". The Bucks Herald. 8 September 2011. Archived from the original on 19 September 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "London 2012: Lily Van den Broecke joy at selection". BBC Sport. 27 June 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ "2012 Paralympics: GB rowing's mixed coxed four – who's who?". BBC Sport. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "Mixed Coxed Four – LTAMix4+". The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
- ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 25.
- ^ [1] Cabinet Office
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- 2003: (Jennifer Emerson, Julia Veness-Collins, Gene Barrett, Ben Felten, cox Susie Edwards)
- 2004: (Katie-George Dunlevy, Naomi Riches, Paul Askam-Spencer, Alan Crowther, cox Loretta Williams)
- 2005: (Alastair McKean, Naomi Riches, Katie-George Dunlevy, Alan Crowther, cox Loretta Williams)
- 2006: (Naomi Riches, Vicki Hansford, Alastair McKeanx Alan Crowther, cox Alan Sherman)
- 2007: (Kathrin Wolff, Marcus Klemp, Michael Sauer, Susanne Lackner, cox Arne Maury)
- 2009: (Vicki Hansford, James Roe, David Smith, Naomi Riches, cox Rhiannon Jones)
- 2010: (Anthony Theriault, Meghan Montgomery, Victoria Nolan, David Blair, cox Laura Comeau)
- 2011: (Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, David Smith, James Roe, cox Lily van den Broecke)
- 2013: (Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, Oliver Hester, James Fox, cox Oliver James)
- 2014: (Grace Clough, Pam Relph, Daniel Brown, James Fox, cox Oliver James)
- 2015: (Grace Clough, Daniel Brown, Pam Relph, James Fox, cox Oliver James)
- 2017: (Grace Clough, Giedrė Rakauskaitė, Oliver Stanhope, James Fox, cox Anna Corderoy)
- 2018: (Ellen Buttrick, Grace Clough, Oliver Stanhope, Daniel Brown, cox Erin Wysocki-Jones)
- 2019: (Ellen Buttrick, Giedrė Rakauskaitė, James Fox, Oliver Stanhope, cox Erin Wysocki-Jones)
- 2022: (Francesca Allen, Giedrė Rakauskaitė, Edward Fuller, Oliver Stanhope, cox Morgan Baynham-Williams)
- 2023: (Francesca Allen, Morgan Fice-Noyes, Giedrė Rakauskaitė, Edward Fuller, cox Erin Kennedy)