Paul Bennett (rower)
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| Personal information | |
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| Born | 16 December 1988 (age 37) Leeds, England |
| Alma mater | King's College London Kellogg College, Oxford |
| Height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
| Weight | 15 st 10 lb (100 kg) |
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Paul Bennett (born 16 December 1988) is a British rower and Olympic gold medallist.[1]
Rowing career
[edit | edit source]Bennett won the Boat Race in 2013 sitting at five for Oxford.
He competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight with Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Matthew Tarrant, Will Satch, Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Tom Ransley, Constantine Louloudis and Phelan Hill.[2] The following year he was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight with Matt Gotrel, Louloudis, Reed, Moe Sbihi, Alex Gregory, George Nash, Satch and Hill.[3]
In 2016 he won a gold medal in the eight at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[4]
Awards
[edit | edit source]He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to rowing.[5][6]
Education
[edit | edit source]From the age of about twelve until he was eighteen Bennett was educated at Roundhay School. Later he went on to graduate with a first class MSci in mathematics from King's College London in 2012, and completed an MSc in Computer Science at Kellogg College, Oxford in 2013.[7]
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External links
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Alumni of King's College London
- Alumni of Kellogg College, Oxford
- English male rowers
- Rowers from London
- British male rowers
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
- Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers for Great Britain
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- 21st-century English sportsmen