Helen Glover is the nickname for Helen Rachel Mary Glover, a British professional rower and a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team. She is well-known for becoming the first woman in the history of her country to win a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games. She is also the winner of the BBC “Olympic Superstars” game show. Along with partner Heather Stanning, she holds Olympic, European, and World records in her sport. A talented multi-sport athlete growing up, she excelled at running and hockey. In 2013, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her athletic achievements, and in 2014, she won a “Blue Peter” gold badge. Helen and Swann were named to the women’s pair for the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics in June 2021.

How much is Helen Glover Net Worth?

Helen Glover is a versatile woman who has a net worth of $1.7 million as of 2021 but her specific amount of salary has not been released yet. However, we may safely conclude that her annual pay is in the hundreds of dollars. She has not done any endorsement work yet. In addition, her principal source of money is from her professional rower job and she is pleased and content with her vocation.

Famous For:

• Being a member of the Great Britain Rowing Team and a professional rower from the United Kingdom.
• For earning a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics.

Helen Glover is back in the boat :

Helen Glover was in retirement when the coronavirus epidemic struck and the Olympics Games were postponed – but the 35-year-old is back in the boat and ready to make a remarkable comeback in Tokyo. Glover had stepped out of rowing after claiming gold at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro to start a family, but the postponement of the Tokyo Games and lockdown in the United Kingdom provided Glover the opportunity to pursue a return for a third attempt at gold in Tokyo.

What is Helen Glover Nationality?

Helen Glover stepped for the very first time into our world on 17th June 1986 in Truro, Cornwall, England. Her parents gave her birth with the genuine name of Helen Rachel Mary Glover. She is of British nationality and she belongs to British-white ethnicity. Similarly, her race is white and her religion is Christian. Helen has had her 35th birthday lately in 2021 and as per her birth date, her star sign is Gemini. Her father, Jimmy Glover is a school teacher and Oxford University graduate whilst her mother, Rachel Glover is a physiotherapist who trained at Guy’s Hospital. She has a younger twin brother Nathan and younger sisters Ruth and Freya.

Talking about Helen’s schooling, she is educated at Heamoor Community Primary School and Humphry Davy School in Penzance. She got a sports scholarship to Millfield School in Somerset between 2002 and 2004 due to her running and hockey abilities. Later at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff Glover studied Sport and Exercise Science, and then studied for a PGCE at the University College Plymouth St Mark & St John, in order to teach physical education to secondary school children.

What does Helen Glover do for a living?

• Helen Glover sets off her career being applied to the Sporting Giants plan in July 2008 when she was placed on GB Rowing Team’s “Start” program under coach Paul Stannard at Minerva Bath Rowing Club in Bath, Somerset. On 26th October 2008, she was fourth at the British Indoor Rowing Championships whilst she also won the Bernard Churcher Trophy in the senior single scull at the Henley Women’s Regatta in 2009.
• She gave up her teaching career in February 2010 and rowed with the Reading University eight and finished third at the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race.
• She placed 5th at the GB Rowing Squad Senior Trials, secured a place on the team, gained Lottery money, and was teamed with Heather Stanning in the women’s coxless pair in April.
• Robin Williams began coaching Helen and Stanning in July when they were ranked 16th and 17th in their race. They progressed so swiftly that by November they won a silver medal at the 2010 World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro in New Zealand.

• They won the coxless pair event at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials at Eton-Dorney with a timing of 7 minutes 15 seconds in 2011 as well as finished second at the 2011 World Rowing Championships at Lake Bled, Slovenia, 0.1 seconds behind the winning New Zealand crew of Haigh and Scown.
• Helen and Stanning again won the coxless pair event in the GB Rowing Team selection trials at Eton Dorney on 10th-11th March in 2012 and went on to complete a clean sweep of all three events in the women’s coxless pair of the World Rowing Cup.
• They also won the gold medal in the women’s coxless pair at the 2012 Summer Olympics on 1st August 2012. They won the final ahead of Australia’s Kate Hornsey and Sarah Tait and New Zealand’s Juliette Haigh and Rebecca Scown, who had already set a new Olympic mark of 6 minutes 57.29 seconds in the heats. This was Team GB’s first gold medal of London 2012, and British women’s rowing’s first-ever Olympic gold medal.
• Helen won the women’s single scull at the GB Rowing Team Trials held at the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, Caversham, Berkshire in April 2013, after winning the 800-meter run in 2 minutes 24 seconds, as well as the swimming, cycling, and gym rounds. Helen also won the women’s single scull at the GB Rowing Team Trials held at the Redgrave Pinsent Rowing Lake, Caversham, Berkshire in December.
• In July, she won the Princess Grace Challenge Cup for women’s quadruple scull at the Henley Royal Regatta with Polly Swann, Victoria Meyer-Laker, and Frances Houghton.
• Then, on August 31, she won the world title in the women’s coxless pair at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, South Korea, with Polly Swann. In December 2013, the SportsSister organization named them Team of the Year.
• In September 2013, she was named the International Rowing Federation’s Athlete of the Month and featured on the World Rowing website.
• Helen was a member of the composite crew that won the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race on the River Thames in London on March 17, 2014, with a timing of 17:42.2 for the 4 14-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney.
• Swann and Glover also achieved a new European best time of 7 minutes 9 seconds, which they lowered to 7 minutes 3.62 seconds in the final on June 1st, finishing 5 seconds ahead of Romania’s Christina Grigoras and Laura Oprea. Helen became the first British rower to win the Olympic, World, and European titles all at the same time.
• She also won gold in the second and third rounds of the World Rowing Cup with Heather Stanning in the women’s coxless pair in Lac d’Aiguebelette in France in June and Lucerne Rotsee on July 13th.
• Glover regained her world championship alongside Heather Stanning at the 2014 World Rowing Championships held at the Bosbaan in Amsterdam on September 30, 2014. They won both their heat and semi-final, and in the final, they set a new world record of 6:50.61, shattering the previous record of 2002.
• Helen was also a member of the composite crew that won gold at the British Rowing Championships in Holme Pierrepont on the 18th and 19th of October in both the women’s fours sweep event and the quad sculls.
• At the end of 2014, she was officially ranked #2 female rower in the world by World Rowing, and on February 14, 2015, she won her maiden race in the GB Rowing single scull, open-weight assessment trial held on the River Witham in Boston, Lincolnshire.
• On the 14th of March 2015, she was a member of the composite crew that won the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race on the River Thames in London, clocking in in 18:58.6 for the 4 14-mile (6.8 km) Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney.
• On April 19, 2015, she and Heather Stanning won the women’s pair in the British rowing trials in Caversham, and on May 31, Glover, teamed by Heather Stanning, retained her European championship at the 2015 European Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland. They won both their heat and semi-final, and in the final, they achieved a new European record time of 6:58.28.
• Glover and Stanning won gold in the women’s coxless pair at the World Rowing Cup’s second round on June 21, 2015, in Lake Varese, Italy, and they also retained their World championship at the 2015 World Rowing Championships on September 5, 2015, in Lac d’Aiguebelette, France.
• Helen was named the world’s number one female rower by World Rowing after retaining her title in 2015, while Glover and Stanning were named the ‘2015 World Rowing Female Crew of the Year’ by the World Rowing Federation (FISA) on November 20, 2015.
• Helen and Stanning won the European Rowing Championships in Brandenburg a der Havel to retain their European title on May 8, 2016, and they also won their heat and semi-final but were unable to compete in the final due to Stanning’s illness at the World Rowing Cup II in Lucerne, Switzerland, from May 27th to 29th.
• On the 19th of June 2016, Glover and Stanning won the World Cup III final in Poznan, Poland, setting a new World Cup Best time of 6 minutes 52.79 seconds, finishing 1.6 seconds ahead of the newly crowned World Cup Champions. On August 12th, they won the Olympic final in Rio de Janeiro.
• Helen also won a European gold medal in the coxless pair in 2021 at Varese, Italy. “Helen Glover: Mother Of All Comebacks” was broadcast on BBC TV a few days before her first race at the Tokyo Olympics on July 19th.

Who is Helen Glover Husband?

Helen Glover is a married woman with two children. On September 16, 2015, she married TV naturalist Steve Backshall, whom she met at a Sport Relief event in 2014. On September 10, 2016, the pair married at Piskies Cove in West Cornwall.

Backshall and Glover revealed they were expecting twins on March 13th, 2018. Helen announced on April 9th that one of the twins had passed away, but that she and Backshall were “hoping for the surviving baby to arrive this summer.” On July 24, 2018, she announced on social media that she had given birth to a baby boy. She then gave birth to twins on January 16, 2020. (a boy and a girl). Helen’s sexual orientation is that of a straight woman.

What is Helen Glover’s height?

Helen Glover is 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall and has an athletic physique. Her body weight is approximately 11 st 0 lb (154 lb) (70 kg). She had a beautiful figure to go along with her nice looks. Helen has a lovely blonde hairstyle and gorgeous brown eyes. Her regular training routine has helped her achieve excellent body posture and accurate body measurements.

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