Malindi Myers
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| Born | 3 October 1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Malindi Myers (born 3 October 1970) is a British civil servant and former international rower.
Rowing career[edit]
Myers rowed for Durham University Boat Club while studying economics.[1] After winning two golds at the 1996 National Championships in the coxless four and eights[2] she was part of the British crew that won silver in the Lightweight Women's Coxless Four at the 1996 World Rowing Championships.[3]
She won further medals at both the 1997 World Rowing Championships and the 1999 World Rowing Championships before becoming a World Champion at the 2000 World Rowing Championships, winning the Lightweight Women's Coxless Pair alongside Miriam Taylor.[4]
Economist[edit]
Following a Masters in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics she joined HM Treasury as a junior economist after university, and later took time out to prepare for the 1996 World Rowing Championships.[5]
After the 1996 World Championships she returned to the Civil Service and then to the European Commission on a secondment scheme. She secured a job with the Government Economic Service before joining the Office for National Statistics.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Catalogue of Durham University Records: Associations and Societies - DU Boat Club". Durham University Library. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ "NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (1996)". Rowing Story.
- ^ "Malindi MYERS - worldrowing.com". World Rowing. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ^ Page, Geoffrey (6 August 2000). "Rowing: Britain recover with double gold". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
- ^ a b "GES Career Stories". GOV.UK. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
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