Hester Goodsell

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

Hester was 8th in the lightweight double scull at the 2007 World Rowing Championships and this was enough to achieve Olympic qualification for the boat. She is a former World U23 champion in the lightweight single scull. She was 7th at the Linz World Cup, 5th at Amsterdam in June and in Lucerne in July all in the double sculls. In the 2008 World Cup series she raced in the double finishing 7th in Munich and 6th in Poznan.

Hester took up rowing at the aged of 17 while at Latymer Upper School and was coached in her early career by Don McLachlan.

She made her international debut in 2005, winning gold in the lightweight single at the World U23 Championships and bronze in the senior lightweight women's quad at the World Championships in Japan.

During the 2006 World Cup, she went on to take 3rd in the Poznan B Finals. Hester then took bronze at the World Championships at Eton in 2006 in the lightweight women's quadruple scull.

Having graduated from York with a degree in music she has recently qualified to teach secondary school music at Cambridge.

Hester learnt the cello from the age of six but plays less now that she is concentrating on her rowing.

Hester is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.