Fiona Gore


Fiona Bryde Gore, Countess of Arran was a Scottish powerboating racer who was awarded the 1980 Segrave Trophy.
She held the record for the fastest woman on water.

World Record

In 1980 she became the fastest woman on water, reaching a speed of in a powerboat on Lake Windemere.

Marriage

Gore was born to Geraldine Bryde Tennant and her husband Iain Colquhoun, Baronet. By her marriage to Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of Arran, she was Countess of Arran. She had two sons, the oldest Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran.

Powerboating background

Fiona Colquhoun was introduced to speedboats when she was a passenger in Miss England III in its trial runs on Loch Lomond.