Vegans Thriving. Elite Vegan Athletes
The extreme levels of fitness required for rowing have been achieved by vegan rowers who have
excelled in the sport.
David Smith is a successful para rower and cyclist who has won Gold medals at international level. David has overcome enormous setbacks and recovered to extremely high levels of fitness thanks to determination and high standards of nutrition.
He was born in 1978 with a club foot and underwent repeated medical interventions to break and reset the foot. Read More... “David Smith, MBE, vegan paralympian”
Michaela Copenhaver is an American rower competing in the Lightweight division.
She started rowing in 2003 and continued at University where she competed at two National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships and one Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) championship.
In her senior year she set a Sprints course record and won an IRA silver medal as stroke seat of the lightweight varsity eight. Read More... “Michaela Copenhaver, vegan rower”
Ida is a Swedish national level rower who has competed in teams at national and international level.
Ida started rowing in 2002 in Normandy, France, when she spent some time there at university. She was taken by the teamwork aspects as well as the extremely hard exercise it presented. Read More... “Ida Andersson, vegan rower”