Hester Goodsell (born 27 June 1984) is a British rower and music teacher.

Rowing career

Goodsell rowed in the

Women's Lightweight Double Sculls Lightweight rowing (abbreviated Lwt or Lt) is a category of rowing where limits are placed on the maximum body weight of competitors. According to the International Rowing Federation (FISA), this weight category was introduced "to encourage more u ...

at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

. She was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the

2011 World Rowing Championships The 2011 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 28 August to 4 September 2011 at Lake Bled, adjoining the Slovenian city of Bled. The annual week-long rowing regatta is organized by World Rowing Federatio ...

Bled Bled (; ,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 146. in older sources also ''Feldes'') is a town on Lake Bled in the Upper Carniolan regio ...

, where she won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight double sculls with

Sophie Hosking Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking MBE (born 25 January 1986) is a retired British rower. Personal life Hosking was born in 1986. The lightweight rower David Hosking is her father. As a teenager, she played as a midfielder for the youth team o ...

Personal life

She graduated in music from the

University of York The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ...

. Until 2010, she was Director of Music at the

Elvian School The Elvian School was a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private school in Reading, Berkshire, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom run by the Licensed Trade Charity as a co-educational, nondenominational Christian, non-denominational Christi ...

Reading, Berkshire Reading ( ) is a town and borough in Berkshire, England, and the county town of Berkshire. It is the United Kingdom's largest town, with a combined population of 355,596. Most of Reading built-up area, its built-up area lies within the Borough ...

. She is now Director of Music at

Notting Hill and Ealing High School Notting Hill and Ealing High School is a private day school for girls aged 4–18 in Ealing, London. Founded in 1873, it is one of the 26 schools that make up the Girls' Day School Trust. It has a junior department of 310 girls (ages 4–11) an ...

in West London.

References

1984 births Living people Alumni of the University of York English female rowers Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Great Britain People from Camden Town Schoolteachers from London World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain 21st-century English sportswomen {{UK-rowing-bio-stub