Newton Rower To Head To Olympic Games

NEWTON, MA —A Newton resident is headed to the Tokyo Olympics this summer.

Genevra "Gevvie" Stone, 35, and teammate Kristina Wagner, of Weston, are competing together in women’s double sculls, after qualifying last month.

This will be Stone's third Olympics. She competed at the 2012 London Games and won silver in the single sculls at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. It will be Wagner's first.

Stone grew up in Newton and began rowing when she was in high school at the Winsor School.

"Some say I was born into it," Stone said in her US Rowing bio. "I would say I resisted it until I realized after all (sophomore/junior year of high school) that it probably was a better fit for me than ball sports."

Both of her parents Lisa Hansen and Greg Stone, were members of the U.S. National Rowing Team and have been her coaches throughout the years, according to the Head of the Charles Regatta.

Stone has won the Head of the Charles Regatta nine times, according

She graduated from Princeton and Tufts Medical School and is in the residency program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, according to her LinkedIn profile.