Polina Danilina
Nationality: GBR/RUS Role: Rower
Current Course
Medicine
Status
Undergraduate
College
Lincoln College
University
Oxford
Squad
About Polina Danilina
Where did you learn to row and who was your first coach?
Tiffin School Boat Club, Alex Di Luzio
What inspires you about sport?
Sport allows to surpass others' expectations of yourself without saying a single word.
Explain your earliest memory of The Boat Race
Watching with family, letting the result decide which university to apply to...
Do you relish in hours in the gym and miles in the dark, or do you live for race days?
To fit training around what is essentially a full working day on placement, sometimes you are the first to arrive and last to leave the sports centre, all in the dark. You see some difficult things, so while the opportunity is there to train, have to take it!
What's the secret to managing elite-level sport with studying at one of the top universities in the world?
Working smarter, and harder (and maybe being slightly insane...?)
