Saskia Budgett
Rower // Women's Squad
Date of Birth: 21st Sep 1996 (27 years old)
Club: Tideway Scullers School
Height: 177cm
Hometown: London
Saskia Budgett is a sculler who has won bronze medals at World Under 23 and European level.
She first represented Great Britain as a junior for GB v France in 2012 and at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in 2013, before competing at the Junior World Championships in 2014.
Saskia then won U23 World Championships gold as part of the women’s quadruple sculls in 2017, achieving bronze in the same event in 2018.
In 2019 she was selected as a spare for the senior GB team for World Cup III and the World Championships.
Since 2021 she has competed in the double sculls, winning bronze at the European Championships that year with Holly Nixon. In 2022 she and Kyra Edwards finished fifth at the European Championships and eighth at the Worlds. World Rowing published an article about their relationship off the water as well as on it.
Saskia and Kyra came ninth at the 2023 European Championships, still in the double scull.
Her father, Pete Budget, won the gold medal in the coxed four at the 1984 Olympic Games.
On The Water
GB Competitive Record
| Year | Event | Position | Boat |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | European Rowing Championships Bled, SLO |
5 | W2x |
| 2022 | World Rowing Championships Racice, CZE |
3 (FB Final) | W2x |
| 2022 | European Rowing Championships Munich, GER |
5 | W2x |
| 2021 | World Rowing Final Olympic Qualification Regatta Lucerne, SUI |
3 | W2x |
| 2021 | European Rowing Championships Varese, ITA |
W2x | |
| 2018 | World Rowing Under 23 Championships Poznan, POL |
BW4x | |
| 2017 | World Rowing Under 23 Championships Plovdiv, BUL |
BW4x | |
| 2016 | World Rowing Under 23 Championships Rotterdam, NED |
4 | BW4- |
| 2014 | World Rowing Junior Championships Hamburg, GER |
1 (FB Final) | JW4- |
- Year:
- 2023
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Bled, SLO - Position:
- 5
- Boat:
- W2x
- Year:
- 2022
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE - Position:
- 3 (FB Final)
- Boat:
- W2x
- Year:
- 2022
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Munich, GER - Position:
- 5
- Boat:
- W2x
- Year:
- 2021
- Event:
- World Rowing Final Olympic Qualification Regatta
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- 3
- Boat:
- W2x
- Year:
- 2021
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Varese, ITA - Position:
- Boat:
- W2x
- Year:
- 2018
- Event:
- World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Poznan, POL - Position:
- Boat:
- BW4x
- Year:
- 2017
- Event:
- World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Plovdiv, BUL - Position:
- Boat:
- BW4x
- Year:
- 2016
- Event:
- World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Rotterdam, NED - Position:
- 4
- Boat:
- BW4-
- Year:
- 2014
- Event:
- World Rowing Junior Championships
Hamburg, GER - Position:
- 1 (FB Final)
- Boat:
- JW4-
Beyond the Boat
Saskia studied biology at UCLA and is interested in pursuing a medical career after rowing.