Elaine Tierney

An American lightweight rower who won a silver medal at the 2022 World Rowing Championships and a bronze in 2023, in the women's coxless pair with partner Solveig Imsdahl, following a five-year rowing career at Temple University.

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Location

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Country

United States

Born

July 10, 1999

Hometown / high school

West Chester, Pennsylvania; Unionville High School

College rowing

Temple University, varsity rowing program, five years (2018–2022)

2022 World Rowing Championships

Silver medal, lightweight women's coxless pair (with Solveig Imsdahl), Račice, Czech Republic

2023 World Rowing Championships

Bronze medal, lightweight women's pair, Belgrade, Serbia

Overview

Elaine Tierney is an American lightweight rower from West Chester, Pennsylvania, who rowed for Temple University’s varsity program for five years before going on to win medals at two consecutive World Rowing Championships. A separate, unrelated public figure — a design historian at London’s V&A Research Institute — shares this name; this profile is specifically about the rower.

From Temple to the U.S. national team

At Temple, Tierney was named the rowing program’s Newcomer of the Year in 2018, its Women’s Rowing Athlete of the Year in 2020, raced on the U.S. Rowing U23 National Team in 2021, and closed her collegiate career with a Second Team All-American Athletic Conference selection in 2022 (VISTA.Today). That year, racing for Vesper Boat Club, she and partner Solveig Imsdahl won the lightweight women’s pair at the USRowing Summer National Championships — a result Tierney described as “a hard fought and well worked for race,” adding that “we kept ourselves internal and focused on our strokes like we do in practice” (VISTA.Today). The win secured her a place on the U.S. Senior National Team and a berth at that year’s World Rowing Championships.

World Championship medals

Tierney and Imsdahl went on to win the silver medal in the lightweight women’s coxless pair at the 2022 World Rowing Championships in Račice, Czech Republic, finishing second in the A final. The following year, Tierney won a bronze medal in the lightweight women’s pair at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, finishing third in the final (World Rowing).

What this profile does not claim

This profile does not give full race fields, splits, or margins for either World Championships final — only Tierney’s own boat’s official placing and medal color, as recorded by World Rowing.

Timeline

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There is a separate, unrelated public figure who shares this name — a design historian affiliated with the V&A Research Institute in London. The Wikipedia article and the independent sourcing behind this profile are specifically about the American rower described here; the two have not been conflated in researching this profile.