Giedre Rakauskaite

Giedre made an outstanding debut performance as a member of the GB Rowing Team, winning gold in the PR3Mix 4+ at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota.

She 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 and rowing for the university. In her final year of study Giedre began coaching at Hereford Cathedral School, taking on the lead coaching role upon graduation. Giedre continued to row competitively through Worcester Rowing Club winning a silver medal at BRIC in 2015 before making the semi finals of Senior doubles at Women’s Henley and qualifying for the new women’s doubles event at HRR in 2017.

Rakauskaite - alongside James Fox, Ellen Buttrick, Ollie Stanhope and cox Erin Kennedy won the PR3 Mix4+ world title in 2019, adding the European title in 2021 before claiming Gold at her first Paralympics in Tokyo.

Within the team of four, she remained unbeaten at the 2022 European and World Championships while adding a third gold in the latter as part of the PR3 Women’s Pairs. In 2023, she helped the Mixed Fours claim Gold again at the European Championships in Bled, Slovenia.