International Women's Day Lecture: Women in Sport - Going for Gold
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Olympic gold medallist Katherine Grainger presents the 2014 International Women's Day Lecture.
Ms Grainger, who took up rowing as a student at Edinburgh, won gold in the Double Sculls at the London Olympics in 2012.
Louise Martin, Vice Chair of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, also speaks.
Recorded on 8 March 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's McEwan Hall.
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