Helen Casey

Helen was selected in the lightweight women's double scull for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and finished 5th in the B Final.

Helen is a qualified doctor who won GB's first Olympic Class World Championship medal for lightweight women in 2002 and in 2004 raced in the first British lightweight women’s boat to qualify for the Olympic Games. She came 8th in the lightweight double scull at the 2007 World Rowing Championships.

In the 2008 World Cup series she raced in the double finishing 7th, 8th and 6th. In the 2007 World Cup series she raced in the double finishing with two 5th and 7th place positions.

Helen started rowing in 1995, her final year at St Catherine's College Cambridge and continued rowing after transferring to Oxford University Medical School. There she rowed for the University in 1996–1998 as well as for Osler House.

Helen qualified as a doctor in 1998 and took up sculling because she wanted to fit training around her chaotic working hours and it offered the most flexibility. She made rapid progress; by the summer of 1999 she was winning events at Women's Henley in open and lightweight categories and later that year she was selected for the England Team for the Commonwealth Regatta and came home with a silver medal.

In 2000 Helen won her first full international vest when she was selected for the lightweight quadruple scull, which finished fifth in the World Championships in Zagreb. The following year she transferred to the lightweight women’s double, finishing sixth in the World Championships in 2001, winning a bronze in 2002 and finishing seventh in 2003.

In 2004 Helen finished 9th at the Olympic Games in Athens in the lightweight women’s double.

At the 2005 World Championships she finished eighth and a year later at Eton she raced with Jane Hall in the double reaching the final where they placed fifth.

Until recently Helen still worked as a doctor part–time, specialising in paediatrics, but is now studying for a MSc in sports and exercise medicine at the University of Bath. In October 2002 she married Pete Sudbury and in her spare time she enjoys cycling and mountain walking.

Helen is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.