Brooke Donoghue


Brooke Donoghue is a New Zealand rower.
She is a current world champion in the double scull.

Early life

Donoghue was born in 1995 and grew up in Te Kauwhata in the Waikato. She received her secondary education at Te Kauwhata College and started rowing in 2010 while at that school.

Career

In 2016 Donoghue competed in the women's quad at the Final Qualification regatta in Lucerne. They failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics by three seconds, as they finished third.
In the 2017 season, Donoghue competed at World Rowing Cups in Poland and Switzerland in the women's double sculls with Olivia Loe, and they won gold in both races. At the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, she became world champion in the women's double sculls partnered with Loe. She regained that title with Loe at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz.