Jane Hall

Jane won a silver medal in the lightweight women's quad at the 2009 World Championships in Poznan., having put in a spirited performance to take second behind a strong German crew with USA third. 

In the 2008 season Jane raced in the lightweight quad winning a gold medal at the World Cup in Poznan and went on to finish 4th at the 2008 World Championships.  She won a silver medal in the lightweight quad at the 2007 World Championships.  In 2006, having returned to top–level rowing after an absence due to illness, she raced in the GB lightweight women's double scull with Helen Casey, finishing 5th at the World Championships in Eton.

She took up rowing at the age of fourteen at Kingston Grammar School. She thrived on the tough and challenging sport and by 1991 was selected in the GB four for the World Junior Championships where her crew finished 5th. In 1992 Jane won a bronze medal in the U23 Lightweight double scull and went on to Montreal as reserve for the senior lightweight team at the World Championships.

In 1993, aged only nineteen, Jane became World Champion in the lightweight four. This was an even more notable achievement as it was the first British women's sweep–oar World Championship gold medal ever. The crew stayed together for the 1994 season but were badly disrupted when one of them was injured in a motor accident. They gradually regained their form and took a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Regatta before moving on to the World Championships in Indianapolis. In an awesome tussle for the line they just failed to retain their title and took home the silver medal.

In the spring of 1995, Jane moved into a lightweight pair winning a silver medal at the World Championships in 1995 and 1996.

Jane spent 3 months in 1997 at the Hong Kong Institute of Sport, coming home stronger than ever and was selected as the lightweight single sculler for the World Championships. At the end of her first season in the single, she raced with impressive maturity to finish 5th. She moved into the lightweight double for 1998 and finished 10th. Jane won a silver medal in the lightweight pairs in 1999 when she was called upon as an emergency substitute.

When Jane is not training she can normally be found cycling up and down the tow path or in a launch coaching crews from Tiffin Boys School or the University of Bath. Her ambition, when she retires from international rowing, is to become the first female Chief Coach of the GB Junior Team.  Jane loves watching all sports and is an ardent fan of Liverpool FC.