Naomi Joy Riches MBE, DL was born on on 15 June 1983 and is a British adaptive rower who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
15 Facts About Naomi Riches
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Naomi Riches is registered blind and is classified for competition in the B3 category.
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Naomi Riches competed for Harrow in the London Youth Games as a disability swimmer.
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Naomi Riches attended the Royal National Institute for the Blind College in Worcester.
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Naomi Riches graduated from Buckinghamshire New University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in metalwork and jewellery design.
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Naomi Riches took up rowing whilst at the RNIB College in Worcester.
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Naomi Riches competes in the legs, trunks and arms adaptive mixed coxed four event.
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Naomi Riches won gold medals in the event at the 2004,2005 and 2006 World Rowing Championships and won silver in 2007.
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Naomi Riches was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics held in Beijing, China, as rowing made its debut at the Games.
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Naomi Riches won a further world title in 2009, alongside Hansford, David Smith, James Roe and cox Rhiannon Jones.
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Naomi Riches won the gold medal in the LTAMix4+ event alongside crewmates Pam Relph, David Smith, James Roe and Lily van den Broecke, the cox.
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Naomi Riches was selected along with Relph, Smith, Roe and van den Broeke, to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the mixed coxed four event.
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Naomi Riches was inducted into the London Youth Games Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Naomi Riches was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing.
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Naomi Riches completed this in less than 48 hours, as she had hoped.