page_title: Katherine Grainger
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Katherine Grainger / Career / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Aberdeen: postbox № AB11 127, Castlegate
context_page_description: Dame Katherine Jane Grainger DBE is a British former rower and current chair of UK Sport. With five Olympic medals she is Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian. She is a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion. She served as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University between 2015 and 2020, and is currently Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
  Grainger first won silver at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 in the woman's quadruple sculls. In Athens in 2004, she won silver in the coxless pairs. In Beijing 2008 she won her third silver, again in the quadruple sculls.
  At the London Olympics 2012, Anna Watkins and Grainger broke the Olympic record as they qualified for the double sculls final, before winning the gold medal. Grainger won a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 with Victoria Thornley, after a two-year break from the sport. Grainger has won eight medals at the World Championship between 1997 and 2011.
context_section_description: Grainger was elected President of the Edinburgh University Boat Club in 1996/97. She was elected the Edinburgh University Sports Union's female athlete of the winner (Eva Bailey Cup) in 1995/96 and 1996/97 and was inducted to the University's Sports Hall of Fame on 29 May 2008.
  She was elected as honorary president of the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association in November 2005, and a steward of Henley Royal Regatta in 2008, only the third rower to be elected while still competing.
  She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2006 Birthday Honours, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to sport and charity.
  In August 2012, a postbox in Aberdeen was painted gold to celebrate her 2012 Olympic gold medal.
  In March 2013, she became patron of the National Coastwatch Institution.
  In June 2017, Grainger was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Aberdeen.
  In July 2017, it was announced that trophy awarded to the winners of the Senior Women's competition at the Home International Regatta would be known as Dame Katherine Grainger Quaich.  The first winners of the trophy were Scotland.
caption: Gold postbox in Aberdeen, Scotland, painted in celebration of Grainger's 2012 Olympic gold win.
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