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Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 12 February 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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College team | Syracuse Orange | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harriet "Hattie" Alexandra Emily Taylor (born 12 February 1994) is a British rower.
Taylor was born in February 1994 to Andrew and Helen Taylor of Sunningdale, England. She attended the Sir William Perkins's School in Chertsey, Surrey, England. After receiving only a few offers after high school, She headed to Melbourne University Boat club in Australia, where she met with Syracuse coaches and made her way to Syracuse, New York.[1][2][3]
She joined Syracuse rowing in 2013 and graduated with a degree in political science in 2017.[4][3]
Taylor was on the Great Britain's U-23 team, winning a bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in 2015.[5]
She won a silver medal in the eight at the 2019 European Rowing Championships.[6] In 2021, she won a European bronze medal in the coxless four in Varese, Italy.[7]
Taylor and the Great Britain team finished fourth in the coxless four event in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.[8]
She was in the women's eight boat which won silver medals at the 2023 European Rowing Championships in Slovenia[9] and the 2024 European Rowing Championships in Hungary.[10]
In June 2024, Taylor was named in the Great Britain rowing team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as part of the women's eight squad.[11]