Name: Olivia Coffey
Position: Women's Eight
Sport: Rowing
Event(s): Women's Eight
Height: 6-1
Weight: 170
DOB: 1/29/1989
Birthplace: Elmira, N.Y.
Hometown: Watkins Glen, N.Y.
High School: Phillips Academy Andover (Andover, Mass.) ‘07
College: Harvard University ‘11; Cambridge University
Team/Club: USRowing Training Center – Princeton
Coach(es): Tom Terhaar, Laurel Korholz
Olympic Experience
- One-time Olympian (2020)
- Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 4th (women's eight)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2019 – bronze (Women's Eight)
- Years of participation: Women's Eight – 2018, 2019; Quadruple Sculls – 2014, 2015; Women’s Four – 2013
- Medals: 5 (3 gold, 2 bronze)
- Gold – 2018 (Eight); 2015 (Quadruple Sculls); 2013 (Four)
- Bronze – 2019 (Eight); 2014 (Quadruple Sculls)
Other Career Highlights
- Won bronze in the eight at the 2011 World Rowing Under 23 Championships
- Won gold in the eight at the 2010 World Rowing Under 23 Championships
- Won silver in the eight at the 2009 World Rowing Under 23 Championships.
Personal:
Grew up playing basketball and hockey, but rowing was in her DNA...Her dad Calvin was an Olympic silver medalist in the Olympic Games Montreal 1976 in the men’s rowing pair...Has three older sisters.
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