Rachel Quarrell

Rachel started rowing for a bet in the summer of 1987, and was promptly hooked, learning to cox a term later. She coxed at club, elite and at several international regattas, winning with over 30 clubs, and won a bronze medal steering a Commonwealth New Zealand M4+ which included Mahé Drysdale. As a journalist she has covered five Olympic Games and, in 2002, became the The Telegraph's rowing correspondent.