Eleanor "Ellie" Piggott (born 16 May 1991)[1] is an English rower, who won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain rowing squad at the 2016 World Rowing Championships, in the Women's Quad sculls event.
She is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford,[3] and a member of Wallingford Rowing Club.
[4][1] She won her first gold at the World Rowing U23 Championships in 2013.
[1] She was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, where she won a silver medal as part of the lightweight quadruple sculls with Brianna Stubbs, Ruth Walczak and Emily Craig.
[5][6] At the 2016 championships in Rotterdam, her women's lightweight quadruple sculls crew of Brianna Stubbs, Emily Craig and Imogen Walsh fought off competition from Germany and China, to win gold and finish with a time of 7:10:60 in the final.