Gemma Hall

Rower // Lightweight Women's Squad
Date of Birth: 10th Apr 1992 (32 years old)
Club: Reading RC
Height: 170cm
Hometown: Wargrave

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Berkshire girl Gemma Hall has made a solid start to her senior international lightweight rowing career.

Hall has been involved in the sport since the age of 11, when she joined Henley Rowing Club.

In 2013, along with current senior GB lightweight Emily Craig, she won a fine bronze medal in the lightweight quad at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz.

Selected in the same boat the following summer, Gemma finished fourth. She and World Class Start athlete Ellie Lewis raced in the lightweight double at the FISU World University Rowing Championships later that season and won an impressive silver medal.

She stepped up in 2016 to race the lightweight in the World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam, finishing 12th.

Hall continued her run in the senior team in 2017, finishing seventh in the lightweight double at the World Cup in Poznan and winning silver at Lucerne. She was selected to race in the lightweight quad at the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton, where she finished fifth.

On The Water

GB Competitive Record

World Rowing Championships
2018 5th LW4x
2017 5th LW4x
2016 12th LW1x
World Rowing Championships:
2018
5th
LW4x
World Rowing Championships:
2017
5th
LW4x
World Rowing Championships:
2016
12th
LW1x
World Rowing Cup Regattas
2017 Lucerne LW4x
2017 Poznan 7th LW2x
World Rowing Cup Regattas:
2017 Lucerne
LW4x
World Rowing Cup Regattas:
2017 Poznan
7th
LW2x
World Rowing U23 Championships
2014 4th LW4x
2013 LW4x
World Rowing U23 Championships:
2014
4th
LW4x
World Rowing U23 Championships:
2013
LW4x

Beyond the Boat

When her rowing career finishes, Gemma hopes to become a primary school teacher. Her ideal holiday destination is Costa Rica – she loves the people – and she would switch places with Serena Williams if she could take up another sport.

Peanut butter, a kindle and photos of friends and family would top Gemma’s list of things to take to a desert island, and her dream dinner party companions would be Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Beyonce.

Gemma is Lottery funded through UK Sport.