Caileigh Filmer

Caileigh Filmer (born December 18, 1996) is a Canadian rower from Victoria, British Columbia.^[1]

Caileigh Filmer

Personal information
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1996-12-18) December 18, 1996 (age 28) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Height	169 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Country	Canada
Sport	Rowing
Event(s)	Coxless pair, Coxless four, Eight
College team	University of California, Berkeley
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  Canada Olympic Games 2024 Paris Eight 2020 Tokyo Coxless pair World Championships 2018 Plovdiv Coxless pair 2019 Ottensheim Coxless pair World Championships (U23) 2017 Plovdiv Eight 2015 Plovdiv Coxless four Youth Olympics 2014 Nanjing Coxless pair World Championships (Junior) 2014 Hamburg Coxless pair

Caileigh graduated from Mount Douglas Secondary in 2014 and started at University of California in fall of 2014.^[2] She won a bronze medal at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in the coxless pair event alongside Larissa Werbicki.^[3]

At only 19 years of age, she was selected to her first Olympic Games to represent Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's eight event.^[4] She went on to sit in the stroke seat of the crew that placed fifth in the Olympic final.

In 2017 she became the U-23 world champion in the women’s eight at the U-23 world championships in Bulgaria.

The following year, she became the 2018 world champion in the women's coxless pair winning her title with Hillary Janssens at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv.

She next won a bronze medal in the women’s pair at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.^[5]

She went on to win a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics,in the women’s eight.