Background
Micheen was born on 26 of June 1987 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Micheen was born on 26 of June 1987 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Springvale House; Peterhouse Girls" School. Rhodes University; University of Johannesburg.
Born in Harare, she competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the single sculls for the national team She has an older sister (Roseanne) and a younger brother (Patrick). Initially home-schooled for Grade One, Thornycroft went to Springvale House in Mashonaland East for primary schooling and on to Peterhouse Girls" School, also in Mashonaland East, for her secondary education.
Peterhouse was the school where she began rowing and met her coach, Rachel Davis.
Thornycroft did her tertiary education in South Africa. At Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, Thornycroft read Human Kinetics and Ergonomics, and Ichthyology and Fisheries studies for her undergraduate education.
She then did her in Ichthyology and Fisheries studies. Afterward, she went on to do a postgraduate in Teaching at the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, Gauteng.
2011 In November, Thornycroft qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games by finishing first in the women"s single sculls at the Africa Continental Qualification Regatta held in Alexandria, Egypt.
Male counterpart, James Fraser-Mackenzie, also qualified for the Olympics after the finishing second in the Final B race at the same regatta. At the World Rowing Cup II, in Lucerne, Switzerland, (from the 25th-27 May) Thornycroft finished tenth overall. She participated in the 2012 Samsung World Rowing Cup III, held in Munich, Germany (from the 15th-17 June) and came first in the Final C race (a non-medal race) and thirteenth overall.
2015 In a bid to intensify her preparations for the qualifying phase to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics hosted by Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, she moved to Pretoria, the South African capital, so as to train at the High Performance Centre (HPC), at the University of Pretoria, a renowned sport science and training facility.
In 2015, Micheen Thornycroft was nominated for an ANSA (Annual National Sports Awards) Sportswoman of the Year Award.