Elise Laverick

Elise Laverick

Medal record
Women's Rowing
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Double sculls
	2004 Athens	Double sculls
World Championships
	1997 Aiguebelette	Eight
	2007 Munich	Double sculls

Elise Mary Sherwell (née Laverick) (born 27 July 1975 in Rustington, West Sussex) is a British rower. She won bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the double scull with Sarah Winckless, and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Anna Bebington. She won the Wingfield Sculls in 2007.

Early life and education

Laverick was educated at Broadwater Manor School in Worthing for the early years of her youth. She also studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Rowing career

Laverick won bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the double scull with Sarah Winckless, and again at the 2008 Summer Olympics with Anna Bebington.

She won the Wingfield Sculls on the Thames in 2007.

She is a member of Thames Rowing Club in Putney, London, and of Thames Valley Skiff Club at Walton on Thames and is also a former Skiff Champion.

Personal life

After retiring from rowing a friend introduced her to cycling, in which she became competitive.