Rowing to Success

York Graduate and Ex-President of the University of York Boat Club, Hester Goodsell has achieved massive success over the summer by winning a bronze medal at the Rowing World Championships in Poznan, Poland. Goodsell won the medal in the Women’s Lightweight Double Scull; the same event in which she had represented team GB at the Beijing Olympic Games one year before.

Hester and her rowing partner Sophie Hosking have been tipped by national newspapers and rowing aficionados as one of Britain’s “best chances for an Olympic class gold medal” during the coming London 2012 games. It is almost certain that her time here in York, training with the rowing team on the Ouse, played no small part in helping her to where she is today.