Lucy Spoors

Lucy Spoors is an Olympic champion and an Olympic silver medallist, having stood on the podium at both the Paris 2024 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Spoors gold medal win came in the women’s double scull with boatmate Brooke Francis at Paris 2024.

The New Zealanders were in fourth place early in the race but gradually moved through the field, hitting the lead with 550 metres remaining.

The pair were neck and neck with the Romanians but had enough left to reach the line first by less than a quarter of a second. They were timed at 6min 50.45s, with the Romanians second in 6min 50.69s. Great Britain were third, 2½ seconds further back.

The New Zealanders’ hard-earned victory was notable as both Francis and Spoors became mothers in 2022, and they made history as the first crew of mothers to win an Olympic rowing medal.

Spoors was also a member of the Women's Eight which won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

The eight finished behind Canada to claim New Zealand's first ever Olympic medal in the event.

Spoors took time out after Tokyo to start a family but returned to international rowing in 2023, switching to sculling.

In 2019, she won a world championship title in the Women’s Eight, the first New Zealand crew to achieve the feat in the women’s event.

She is originally from Christchurch and moved to Cambridge to row in 2009. She has a degree in linguistics through Massey University.