Eleanor Piggott


Eleanor "Ellie" Piggott is an English rower, who won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain rowing squad at the 2016 World Rowing Championships, in the Women's Quad sculls event.
Piggott comes from Bedford. She is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, and a member of Wallingford Rowing Club.
She won her first gold at the World Rowing U23 Championships in 2013. At the 2015 World Rowing Championships, she was part of the British crew that won the silver medal. At the 2016 championships, her crew fought off competition from Germany and China, to win gold and finish with a time of 7:10:60 in the final.
Piggott represented Great Britain at the first stage of the 2018 World Rowing Cup in Belgrade, and at the second stage of the event in Ottensheim.