Lucy Spoors

Lucy Spoors (born 24 December 1990) is a New Zealand rower. She is a 2019 world champion winning the women's eight title at the 2019 World Rowing Championships.

Lucy Spoors

Personal information
Born	(1990-12-24) 24 December 1990 (age 34)
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Relative	Phoebe Spoors (sister)
Sport
Country	New Zealand
Sport	Rowing
Event(s)	Quadruple sculls, Coxless four, Eight
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  New Zealand Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Eight 2024 Paris Double sculls World Championships 2019 Ottensheim Eight 2017 Sarasota Eight World Championships (U23) 2012 Trakai Quadruple sculls World Championships (junior) 2008 Linz Coxless four

Private life

Spoors was born in 1990.^[1] She received her secondary education at Christchurch Girls' High School^[2] and started rowing in 2005.^[3] She has younger twin sisters, Grace and Phoebe (born 1993), who both took up rowing, too.^[4]

Rowing career

Her first international competition was at the 2007 World Rowing Junior Championships in Beijing, China, where her junior women's quad sculls team came sixth.^[5] At the 2008 World Rowing Junior Championships in Linz, Austria, she competed with the junior women's four and won gold.^[6] She transitioned to the U23 team for the 2009 season and competed with the U23 women's quad sculls; they came fourth at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Račice, Czech Republic, that year.^[7] Spoors competed in the same boat class at the 2010 World Rowing U23 Championships in Brest, Belarus, and the team came tenth that year.^[8] Three months later, Spoors competed for the first time at elite level. The 2010 World Rowing Championships were held on Lake Karapiro near Cambridge, New Zealand. Only four women's four team were competing, and the New Zealand squad came last.^[9]

In the following year, Spoors returned to the U23 level and at the 2011 World Rowing U23 Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the U23 women's quad sculls team came fourth.^[10] The same boat class went to the 2012 World Rowing U23 Championships in Trakai, Lithuania, and her team won a bronze medal.^[11]

Spoors made the selection to the women's elite team in 2014. In the women's quad sculls, the team came fifth at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, Netherlands.^[12] At the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France, the quad sculls team came sixth.^[13] To qualify the women's quadruple sculls for the 2016 Rio Olympics, the team had to achieve a top-two finish at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland, but they came third.^[14][15][16]

She won a bronze medal with the New Zealand women's eight at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida.^[1]