Cath Bishop

Personal information

Full name

Catherine Bishop

Born

22 November 1971 (age 45)
Leigh on Sea, England

Medal record

Women's rowing
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	Athens 2004	Coxless pair
World Rowing Championships
	2003 Milan	Coxless pair
	1998 Cologne	Coxless pair

Catherine "Cath" Bishop (born 22 November 1971) is a former British rower. In partnership with Katherine Grainger she was World Champion in the coxless pair in 2003, and in 2004 they won a silver medal at the Olympic Games.

Early life and education

Bishop was born in Leigh on Sea, England, and educated at Westcliff High School for Girls. She has a BA in modern languages from Pembroke College, Cambridge, a master's in international politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and a Ph.D. in contemporary German literature from the University of Reading.

Career

Rowing

Bishop won medals at the World Championships twice, a silver in 1998 in the women's pair with Dot Blackie, and gold in 2003, again in the pair, with Katherine Grainger.

She won silver in the 2004 Olympic Games in the women's pair with Grainger,

In 1999 she was the World Indoor Rowing Champion.^[1]

Diplomacy

From 2001 through 2014 Bishop forged a career with the Foreign Office, for whom she worked in London; Sarajevo, Bosnia; and Basra Iraq. Her roles included : Political, projects and press officer at British Embassy, Sarajevo, from 2004; Political Adviser to the High Representative to Bosnia & Herzegovina from 2006; Head of the Political Section at the British Consulate in Basra from 2007; and Deputy Director of the Stabilisation Unit in London from 2009-11.^[2]

Personal life

On 9 October 2010 she married Matt Tillett in Leigh-on-Sea. On 16 July 2011 she gave birth to a son, Jonathan Luke Kellie, and on 12 March 2013 a daughter, Lucy Jennifer.

References

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/rowing/2424166/My-Sport-Cath-Bishop.html

External links

Cath Bishop bio at NBCOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived August 18, 2004)

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