Holly Norton
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Born | 1 January 1993 Harare, Zimbabwe | (age 31)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Johannesburg, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | BSc Psychology from Ohio State University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Ohio State Buckeyes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Leander | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Holly Norton (born 1 January 1993) is a South African–British rower.
Biography
Born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, Holly's family moved to South Africa in 2003. It was at St Stithians Girl's College that she first took up rowing.[1]
She was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, where she won a silver medal as part of the coxless four with Rebecca Chin, Karen Bennett and Lucinda Gooderham.[2] She won the gold medal in the coxless four at the 2016 World Rowing Championships with Donna Etiebet, Holly Nixon and Fiona Gammond.[3]
Norton formerly represented South Africa as a junior rower.[4] She rowed collegiately for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and helped the team to three consecutive NCAA national championship titles in 2013, 2014 and 2015.[5] She currently rows for the Leander Club.[6]
References
- ^ "Holly Norton - World Champion Rower shares her journey". www.stithian.com. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "2015 World Rowing Championships results". World Rowing.
- ^ "World Championships: Holly Nixon and Paul O'Donovan secure gold medals". BBC Sport. BBC. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "Holly Norton". World Rowing. 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "2015 Ohio State Rowing Media Information" (PDF). OhioStateBuckeyes.com. 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ "Holly Norton". British Rowing. 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
External links
- Holly Norton at World Rowing
- Holly Norton at British Rowing
- Profile of Holly Norton on Rowing Classifieds
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from November 2017
- World Rowing template using numeric ID
- Living people
- 1993 births
- British female rowers
- South African female rowers
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
- Ohio State Buckeyes rowers
- Alumni of St Stithians College
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- South African rowing biography stubs
- British rowing biography stubs