1. Heather Mary Stanning was born on 26 January 1985 and is a retired British professional rower.
32 Facts About Heather Stanning
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Heather Stanning has been a British champion in both women's fours and quad sculls.
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Heather Stanning set the world record time in partnership with Helen Glover at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, and they retained their World title at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France.
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Heather Stanning was ranked the number 1 female rower in the world in 2016 and announced her retirement from rowing in November 2016.
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Heather Stanning is a British Army officer and currently holds the rank of Major in the Royal Artillery; she was given dispensation from the army to pursue an Olympic career with the British team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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Heather Stanning was educated at Gordonstoun, Scotland, where she was appointed head girl in her final year.
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Heather Stanning started rowing in 2006 under the Team GB Start Programme.
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Heather Stanning graduated from university in 2007 before going on to Sandhurst alongside her brother, Martin, who joined the Black Watch.
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Heather Stanning was commissioned from Sandhurst into the Royal Artillery in August 2008, based at Larkhill Garrison on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.
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Heather Stanning held the rank of Captain and served in 32nd Regiment Royal Artillery.
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Heather Stanning was promoted to Major in December 2015 and from February 2017 resumed work full-time in the army before attending Staff College in September 2017.
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In 2006 Heather Stanning started rowing and was selected for Team GB "Start" programme where she was coached by Paul Stannard.
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Heather Stanning was given leave from the army in 2010 to train for Olympic competition and was paired with Helen Glover in the women's coxless pair.
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In 2011 Glover and Heather Stanning won the coxless pair event at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials at Eton-Dorney with a time of 7 minutes 15 seconds.
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Glover and Heather Stanning finished second in the 2011 World Rowing Championships at Lake Bled, Slovenia, 0.1 seconds behind the winning New Zealand crew of Haigh and Scown, despite both getting a stomach bug when they arrived in Slovenia.
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In 2012 Glover and Heather Stanning completed a clean sweep of all three events in the women's coxless pair of the World Rowing Cup.
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On 1 August 2012 Glover and Heather Stanning won the gold medal in the women's coxless pair at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Heather Stanning is a credit to the Royal Regiment of Artillery, to the Army and to the nation.
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In September 2012 Heather Stanning reported to Larkhill garrison and resumed her British Army career.
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Heather Stanning was posted to Helmand Province in Afghanistan where she worked as an Operations officer for the iUAS.
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Heather Stanning completed her tour of duty in the summer of 2013, and returned to training in December.
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On 19 April 2014 Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, coached by Paul Thompson, won the women's pair at the British rowing trials at Caversham, they took seven minutes 56.08 seconds and finished 1.14 seconds ahead of Polly Swann and Jessica Eddie.
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On 30 September Heather Stanning, partnered by Helen Glover, retained her world title at the 2014 World Rowing Championships held at the Bosbaan, Amsterdam.
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On 31 May Heather Stanning, partnered by Helen Glover, won her first European title at the 2015 European Rowing Championships held in Poznan, Poland.
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Glover and Heather Stanning retained their World title at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France, on 5 September.
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On 20 November 2015, the World Rowing Federation announced that Glover and Heather Stanning had won the award for '2015 World Rowing Female Crew of the Year'.
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On 8 May 2016 Glover and Heather Stanning won the European Rowing Championships at Brandenburg an der Havel to retain their European title.
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On 19 June 2016 Glover and Heather Stanning won the final of the World Cup III event at Poznan, Poland, setting a new World Cup Best time of 6 minutes 52.79 seconds to finish 1.6 seconds ahead of the newly crowned World Cup Champions - Genevieve Behrent and Rebecca Scown of New Zealand.
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On 12 August 2016 Glover and Heather Stanning retained their Olympic women's Pair title at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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In November 2016, Heather Stanning announced her retirement from rowing and returned to active military service full time 2017.
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Heather Stanning was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Birthday Honours, both for services to rowing.
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In September 2016, Heather Stanning was awarded the freedom of the Scottish region of Moray.