Giedre Rakauskaite MBE

Rower // Para-Rowing Squad
Date of Birth: 13th Jun 1991 (32 years old)
Club: Worcester RC
Height: 184cm
Hometown: Kaunas, Lithuania/Worcester

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Giedre became World Champion in the PR3 Mix4+ in 2017 and won the title again in 2019 and 2022. She won gold at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, and is also a reigning European Champion in that boat class, which she won in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Giedre started rowing in 2006 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She moved to the UK in 2011, taking up residence in Worcester to study Sports Coaching Science at Worcester University where she rowed. In her final year of study, Giedre began coaching at Hereford Cathedral School, taking on the lead coaching role on graduation.

Giedre continued to row competitively at Worcester RC, winning a silver medal at the British Indoor Rowing Championships in 2015 before making the semi-finals of Senior doubles at Henley Women’s Regatta and qualifying for the new women’s doubles event at Henley Royal Regatta in 2017.

After joining the GB Para-rowing Team in 2017, she was selected for the PR3 Mixed coxed four, in which she won the World Championships. She won the event at the Worlds again in 2019. Still in that event, she won the European Championships in 2021, followed by the Paralympic Games.

In 2022 and 2023, Giedre and the PR3 Mix 4+ retained their European title, also winning the World Rowing Championships in 2022, where she and crew mate Frankie Allen doubled up to win the PR3 Women’s pair.

On The Water

GB Competitive Record

Year Event Position Boat
2023 European Rowing Championships
Bled, SLO
PR3 Mix4+
2022 World Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE
PR3 Mix4+
2022 World Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE
PR3 W2-
2022 European Rowing Championships
Munich, GER
PR3 Mix4+
2022 World Rowing Cup I
Belgrade, SRB
PR3 Mix4+
2020 Paralympic Games
Tokyo, JPN
PR3 Mix4+
2021 European Rowing Championships
Varese, ITA
PR3 Mix4+
2019 World Rowing Championships
Linz Ottensheim, AUT
PR3 Mix4+
2017 European Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE
PR3 Mix4+
Year:
2023
Event:
European Rowing Championships
Bled, SLO
Position:
Boat:
PR3 Mix4+
Year:
2022
Event:
World Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE
Position:
Boat:
PR3 Mix4+
Year:
2022
Event:
World Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE
Position:
Boat:
PR3 W2-
Year:
2022
Event:
European Rowing Championships
Munich, GER
Position:
Boat:
PR3 Mix4+
Year:
2022
Event:
World Rowing Cup I
Belgrade, SRB
Position:
Boat:
PR3 Mix4+
Year:
2020
Event:
Paralympic Games
Tokyo, JPN
Position:
Boat:
PR3 Mix4+
Year:
2021
Event:
European Rowing Championships
Varese, ITA
Position:
Boat:
PR3 Mix4+
Year:
2019
Event:
World Rowing Championships
Linz Ottensheim, AUT
Position:
Boat:
PR3 Mix4+
Year:
2017
Event:
European Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE
Position:
Boat:
PR3 Mix4+

Beyond the Boat

Films/TV: Coach Carter

Dream dinner guests: Arnold Schwarzeneger

If I wasn’t a rower: Basketballer

Sports I’d like to compete in: Cycling