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The 34-year-old, a winner in the Italian
lakeside city of Varese with Polly Swann, has had three children
since the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics and is aiming for a
comeback at the Tokyo Games in July.
Glover won coxless pairs gold at Rio and the London 2012 Games
with now-retired Heather Stanning.
Swann, 32, won an Olympic silver medal with the women's eight in
2016.
The pair led the field throughout in Varese and held off Romania
to win.
"I was literally thinking today 'am I going to make it down the
track?', which is silly because I do it in training every day,
but just something about racing makes those doubts come to the
surface," said Glover.
"But I’ve squashed all those down, and I can move forward in
being the athlete I know I am, and also into being the athlete I
want to be as well."
Glover gave birth to boy and girl twins Kit and Bo last year and
also has a two-year-old son Logan.
"Logie bear, little Kit, my Bo. This is for you," she said on
Twitter with a picture of the medal.
She said in January that the thought of a comeback came to her
last year at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when she wanted
to regain her fitness after giving birth and started training on
a rowing machine during the twins' nap time.
"Because I'm the first British woman to make it this far in
rowing as a mum, the research isn't there so we're learning as
we go," she wrote in a recent BBC column.
"The physios are really excited -- they see it as a challenge
that we can find out even more about the human body."
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Christian Radnedge)
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