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MAY 2012: Helen and Heather strike Gold again

Helen Glover (2002-2004; Martin's) and her team mate Heather Stanning were put to the greatest test in the final of the Women's Pair at the World Cup in Belgrade on 6th May but came through victorious - as they hope to be in London 2012.

Read a full report of their hard-won success

MARCH 2012: Helen looking good for the Olympics

Helen Glover (2002-2004; Martin's) and her team mate Heather Stanning warmed up for the summer by winning the GB trials on Sunday 11th March on the Olympic course at Eton.

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Helen featured on BBC1's British Olympics Dreams at the beginning of April.

Read more news here of Helen and also of Cameron Nichol, whose run up to the Olympics has been disrupted by injury.

SEPTEMBER 2011: Silver for OM rowers in Slovenia

Helen Glover and Cameron Nichol both had to settle for a silver medal in the World Rowing Championships at Bled last year as members of the Women's Pair and Men's Eight respectively.

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Cameron is a relative newcomer to the sport, which he took up in 2005. He earned his first GB vest in 2007, and that same year won the Prince Albert Challenge Cup, the student coxed fours event, at Henley Royal Regatta, and was a BUSA gold medal winner in the Championship pairs event.

Cameron is in the final stages of his Medical Degree and will qualify as a doctor straight after the Olympics, when he hopes to pursue a career in surgery.

Helen started rowing as a complete novice in 2008 through the Sporting Giants scheme and was placed on the GB Rowing Team's 'Start' programme in Bath.

In 2009 she won gold in the senior single scull at Henley and the following year came 3rd in the Reading University women's eight at the Head of the River.

Helen ran as a junior in international cross-country and was part of the England Satellite Squad for Hockey. At university in Cardiff she studied Sport and Exercise Science and then did a PGCE in PE, working as a PE teacher in Bath for the first year of rowing.

To find out more about Cameron click here and Helen here

JULY 2011: Gold for Helen in Lucerne

Helen Glover (2002-2004; Martin's) and her team mate Heather Stanning stunned the world champions New Zealand at the final event of the world cup event of the season by beating them to the line by a fraction of a second in the Women's Pair. They opened up a big lead with a blistering start then held off the champions' late challenge.

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