James Roe (rower)

James Roe MBE (born 28 March 1988) is a British adaptive rower. He was part of the mixed coxed team that won gold at both the 2011 World Rowing Championships and the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

James Roe

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	28 March 1988
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Adaptive rowing
Medal record Adaptive rowing Representing  Great Britain Paralympic Games 2012 London LTA coxed four World Championships 2009 Poznań LTA coxed four 2011 Bled LTA coxed four 2010 Cambridge LTA coxed four

James Roe & Pam Relph at the Our Greatest Team Parade

Personal life

Roe was born on 28 March 1988 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.[1] He is visually impaired.[1]

In 2009 he graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art.[1]

Rowing

Roe started rowing when he joined his local club (Stratford Upon-Avon Boat Club) at the age of 12.[1] He competes in the legs, trunks and arms adaptive mixed coxed four (LTAMix4+) event and won a gold medal at the 2009 World Rowing Championships, alongside Vicky Hansford, David Smith, Naomi Riches and cox Rhiannon Jones.[2] At the 2010 World Rowing Championships held at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand he won a silver medal with Smith, Riches, Ryan Chamberlain and Jones.[1]

In 2011 he competed at the World Rowing Championships held at Lake Bled, Bled, Slovenia. He won the gold medal in the LTAMix4+ event alongside crewmates Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, David Smith and cox, Lily van den Broecke.[1][3] They completed the one kilometre course in a time of three minutes, 27.10 seconds, finishing nearly five seconds ahead of runners-up Canada. The result qualified a boat for Great Britain into the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.[4] The crew repeated their gold medal result at the Munich World Cup event in 2012.[1]

Roe was selected along with Relph, Riches, Smith, and van den Broeke, to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the mixed coxed four event.[5] The crew took gold at Eton Dorney on 2 September.[6]

Roe was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to rowing.[7][8]

See also

• 2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom

References

1. "James Roe". British Paralympic Association. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
2. Gough, Martin (29 August 2009). "Britain win two golds at Worlds". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
3. "World Rowing: GB mixed coxed four win adaptive gold". BBC Sport. 4 September 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
4. "Wham, bam thank you Pam as rower gets gold to set up London 2012 dream". The Bucks Herald. 8 September 2011. Archived from the original on 19 September 2011. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
5. "2012 Paralympics: GB rowing's mixed coxed four – who's who?". BBC Sport. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
6. "Paralympics 2012: Great Britain win rowing gold in mixed coxed fours". The Guardian. 2 September 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
7. "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 25.
8. Cabinet Office