Elaine Graham “I actually come from an athletics background but started rowing at 19 on the indoor rowing machine when the local gym had an in-house best 2k times league. I went on to win titles at the Scottish, Irish, Just Row, City Regatta (Scotland) Championships and hold some British and World Records.
Unfortunately I was diagnosed with knee arthritis and could no longer row on a sliding seat and in 2019 I tried fixed seat rowing in a St Ayles Skiff and ended up competing at the 2019, 2022 and 2025 World Championships. I worked incredibly hard to get back on the indoor rowing machine and last year I competed at the British Rowing Indoor Championships and won double gold in championship records.
The reason for doing a marathon in a skiff is that I always wanted to run the London Marathon but as I can no longer run rowing it in a skiff would be the next best thing.”
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