Jane Hall

Jane won a silver medal in the lightweight quad at the 2007 World Rowing Championships. She finished 5th at the 2006 World Rowing Championships in Eton but had to withdraw through injury for the GB Rowing Senior Trials in 2007. At the World Cup Regatta in Amsterdam she placed 7th. She raced in the lightweight quad at the 2008 World Cup in Poznan winning a gold medal.

She took up rowing at the age of fourteen at Kingston Grammar School. She thrived on the tough and challenging sport and by 1991 was selected in the GB four for the World Junior Championships where her crew finished 5th. In 1992 Jane won a bronze medal in the U23 Lightweight double scull and went on to Montreal as reserve for the senior lightweight team at the World Championships.

In 1993, aged only nineteen, Jane became World Champion in the lightweight coxless four. This was an even more notable achievement as it was the first British women's sweep–oar World Championship gold medal ever. The crew stayed together for the 1994 season but were badly disrupted when one of them was injured in a motor accident. They gradually regained their form and took a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Regatta before moving on to the World Championships in Indianapolis. In an awesome tussle for the line they just failed to retain their title and took home the silver medal.

In the spring of 1995, Jane moved into a lightweight pair winning a silver medal at the World Championships in 1995 and 1996.

Jane spent three months in 1997 at the Hong Kong Institute of Sport, coming home stronger than ever and was selected as the lightweight single sculler for the World Championships. At the end of her first season in the single, she raced with impressive maturity to finish 5th. She moved into the lightweight double for 1998 and finished 10th. Jane won a silver medal in the lightweight pairs in 1999 when she was called upon as an emergency substitute.

When Jane is not training she can normally be found cycling up and down the tow path or in a launch coaching crews from Tiffin Boys School or the University of Bath. Her ambition, when she retires from international rowing, is to become the first female Chief Coach of the GB Junior Team. Jane loves watching all sports and is an ardent fan of Liverpool FC.

In 2006 Jane returned to top–level rowing, after an absence due to illness, raced in the GB's lightweight women's double scull with Helen Casey, finishing 5th at Eton.

Jane is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.
Location
Place of birth: 
Kingston upon Thames
Current Address: 
Caversham
Home town: 
Surbiton
Region(s): 
Surrey
Personal information
Date of birth: 
20 October 1973
Education: 
Kingston Grammar School
Rowing information
Club: 
Leander
Boat: 
Lightweight Women's Squad
Role: 
Rower
Coach: 
Robin Williams
Learnt to row: 
Kingston Grammar School
GB Competitive Record
World Rowing Championships
2007
Silver
LW4x
2006
5th
LW2x
2000
5th
LW4x 
1999
Silver
LW2-
1999
18th
LW2x
1998
10th
LW2x
1997
5th
LW1x
1996
Silver
LW2-
1995
silver
LW2-
1994
silver
LW4-
1993
Gold
LW4-
World Rowing U23 Championships
1992 Bronze
LW2x
World Rowing Junior Championships
1991 5th
LW4-