Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne | |
Full Name: | Mathilda Kathryn R. Hodgkins-Byrne |
Birth Date: | 1 October 1994 |
Birth Place: | Westminster, London, England |
Height: | 174 cm |
Alma Mater: | University of Reading |
Mathilda Kathryn R. Hodgkins-Byrne (born 1 October 1994) is a British rower. She won a gold medal in the double scull at the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships.[1] She won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, as part of the quadruple sculls with Bethany Bryan, Jessica Leyden and Holly Nixon.[2]
She competed for Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing 7th in the women's quadruple sculls event.[3]
In 2020 she won her second Wingfield Sculls, her previous win was in 2015.[4] In 2021, she won a European silver medal in the quadruple sculls in Varese, Italy.[5]
In June 2024, she was confirmed in the British squad for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.[6] On 1 August 2024 Hodgkins-Byrne and Becky Wilde won a bronze medal in the double sculls finishing behind gold medallists New Zealand and silver medallists Romania.[7]
Hodgkins-Byrne grew up in Hereford, where she began training as a teenager. She graduated from the University of Reading.[8]
Hodgkins-Byrne has a son.[9]