Rowan McKellar (born 24 May 1994) is a British

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. A two-time Olympian, McKellar won the bronze medal in the Women's Eight event at the 2024 Summer Games. She also holds gold medals from Women's coxless four events at the European and World Rowing Championships.

Early life and education

McKellar is from Glasgow. She was born to parents who both rowed for Scotland in the

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. She graduated from the

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with a degree in

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in 2017. She was a member of 2016

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winning eight in her junior college season. In 2017 McKellar was named in the Division I Pocock First Team All-America award, alongside two other rowers from her university.

Career

McKellar won a silver medal in the eight at the

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. In 2021, she won a European bronze medal in the coxless four in

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, Italy. McKellar made her Olympic debut at the

2020 Tokyo Olympic Games The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

, held in 2021. There she competed in the coxless four, where she was part of the British team which finished in fourth place. McKellar won a gold medal in the coxless four at the

2022 European Rowing Championships The 2022 European Rowing Championships were held from 11 to 14 August 2022 in Oberschleißheim, near Munich, Germany, as part of the multi-sport 2022 European Championships. The event constituted 19 events in rowing and 4 in pararowing. Medal ...

in Munich, with teammates Rebecca Shorten, Sam Redgrave and

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. A month later she was part of the gold-medal winning team in the

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in the Czech municipality of Račice with the same teammates. At the

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in Belgrade, she won the World Championship bronze medal in the women's coxless four. McKellar won a bronze medal as part of the Great Britain eight at the

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, which was her country's second time finishing in a medal position in that event.

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