Lola Anderson
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| Personal information | |
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| Born | 16 April 1998 |
| Home town | Richmond-upon-Thames |
| Sport | |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Sport | Rowing |
Medal record | |
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Lola Anderson (born 16 April 1998) is a world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning British rower.[1] She was inspired to take up the sport as a teenager while watching Great Britain win four rowing golds at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, encouraged by her father, Don, a former university rower.[2]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Anderson is from Richmond, Greater London and attended Surbiton High School. She graduated with a degree in English literature from Newcastle University.[3]
Career
[edit | edit source]Anderson won a gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2022 European Rowing Championships.[4] This was followed by a bronze medal at the 2022 World Rowing Championships.
In 2022, Anderson won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup (the premier women's singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for the Leander Club.[5]
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, she won the World Championship gold medal in the Quadruple sculls with Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott and Georgina Brayshaw.[6]
She won a gold medal in the quadruple sculls at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.[7]
Awards
[edit | edit source]She was awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to rowing.[8]
References
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External links
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- Lola Anderson at World RowingLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Lola Anderson at British Rowing
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- Lola Anderson at Olympics.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Lola Anderson at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived)
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- 1998 births
- Living people
- British female rowers
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Olympic rowers for Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Surbiton High School
- Alumni of Newcastle University
- Sportspeople from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- 21st-century British sportswomen
- British rowing Olympic medalist stubs