Sophie Hosking
Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking MBE is a retired British rower. A fixture in British lightweight sculling since 2007, Hosking won a surprise gold medal for Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics lightweight double sculls, along with Kat Copeland. Hosking and Copeland's success was the second of six gold medals won by Great Britain on the middle Saturday of the 2012 Games, on what became known in the United Kingdom as Super Saturday.Personal life
Hosking was born in 1986. The lightweight rower David Hosking is her father. She attended Kingston Grammar School in London, before completing an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics at Trevelyan College, Durham University, graduating in 2007.
She is a member of the London Rowing Club in Putney.
Hosking was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing.
Following her retirement from competitive rowing, Hosking embarked on a new career as a solicitor.
