Olivia Coffey
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Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Elmira, New York, United States | January 29, 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Quad sculls, Coxless four, Eight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | Tokyo 2020 W8+ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olivia Coffey (born January 29, 1989) is an American rower. She is a three-time world champion and an Olympian. She won the gold medal in the quad sculls at the 2015 World Rowing Championships. Coffey was in the winning Cambridge crew of The Boat Race 2018.
Life
Coffey was born in 1989 in Elmira, New York. She first competed at rowing whilst at Phillips Academy in 2005. She was a member of the rowing team in her first year at Harvard University. She graduated in 2011. She took sixth in the 2016 rowing championship which qualified her to be the alternate in the US rowing team at the 2016 Olympics.[1]
Coffey became a student at Cambridge University and was a member of the winning women's boat race in 2018.[2]
She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3]
References
- ^ "Olivia Coffey '11 | Sports | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
- ^ Street, Tim (March 24, 2018). "Meet the Cambridge women's crew for the Boat Race 2018". cambridgenews. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
- ^ OlympicTalk (June 17, 2021). "U.S. Olympic team roster: Athletes qualified for Tokyo Games". OlympicTalk | NBC Sports. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
External links
- Olivia Coffey at World Rowing
- Olivia Coffey at USRowing (archive June 22, 2016)
- Olivia Coffey at Team USA (archive March 30, 2023)
- Olivia Coffey at Olympics.com
- Olivia Coffey at Olympedia (archive)
- Olivia Coffey at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olivia Coffey on Instagram