Anna Bebington

Anna was selected in the women's double scull for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and won a bronze medal.

Anna is a World bronze medallist, former World Under 23 champion and a product of GB Rowing's World Class Start Programme, sponsored by Siemens.

In 2007 Anna won a bronze medal in the double with Elise Laverick at the World Championships in Munich.  In the 2008 World Cup Series they raced together again in the double in the second and third regattas placing 5th and 1st.

Anna attended Westwood High School in Leek but began rowing recreationally at Newham College Cambridge in 2001, aged 18, to get fit. In summer 2003 she joined the World Class Start Programme, where she was coached by Adrian Cassidy and began to row competitively, progressing to the GB U23 team in the first year and the senior team in the second.

Anna set a BUSA (British Universities) record on the ergometer in 2003 and the following year became the World U23 champion with the women's four.

In 2005 she won a bronze medal with the women's eight at the Eton World Cup and went on to finish fifth with the eight at the World Championships in Japan and take a bronze in the pair at the World U23 Championships.

In 2006 she raced in the women's double with Annie Vernon, winning a gold at the World Cup in Munich, taking fourth at Poznan and a silver in Lucerne before finishing fourth at the World Championships at Eton, in August 2006.

Anna graduated from Cambridge in the summer of 2005 and moved south to train full time at the women's squad base in Marlow. As well as being a talented rower she can also fly a plane and when not rowing she enjoys baking.  Her parents have both taken up rowing since Anna's success in the sport.

Anna is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.