Paul Bennett (rower)

Paul Bennett MBE (born 16 December 1988) is a British rower and Olympic gold medallist.[1]

Paul Bennett
MBE

Bennett at the 2016 European Rowing Championships

Personal information

Born

16 December 1988 (age 32)
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)

Medal record

Men's rowing

Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	M8+
World Championships
	2014 Amsterdam	M8+
	2015 Aiguebelette	M8+
European Championships
	2015 Poznan	M8+

Rowing career

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

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

He graduated 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]

References

"Paul Bennett". British Rowing. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
"2014 World Rowing Championships: Event Information". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
"2015 World Rowing Championships results". World Rowing.
"Biographical information". Olympedia.
"No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N15.
"New Year's Honours List 2017" (PDF). www.gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/discover/news/olympics/

External links

Paul Bennett at FISA WorldRowing.com

Olympic champions – Men's eight

1900: Carr, DeBaecke, Exley, Geiger, Hedley, Juvenal, Lockwood, Marsh, Abell (USA)

1904: Cresser, Gleason, Schell, Flanagan, Armstrong, Lott, Dempsey, Exley, Abell (USA)

1908: Gladstone, Kelly, Johnstone, Nickalls, Burnell, Sanderson, Etherington-Smith, Bucknall, Maclagan (GBR)

1912: Burgess, Swann, Wormald, Horsfall, Gillan, Garton, Kirby, Fleming, Wells (GBR)

1920: Jacomini, Graves, Jordan, Moore, Sanborn, Johnston, Gallagher, King, Clark (USA)

1924: Carpenter, Kingsbury, Lindley, Miller, Rockefeller, Sheffield, Spock, Wilson, Stoddard (USA)

1928: Stalder, Brinck, Frederick, Thompson, Dally, Workman, Caldwell, Donlon, Blessing (USA)

1932: Salisbury, Blair, Gregg, Dunlap, Jastram, Chandler, Tower, Hall, Graham (USA)

1936: Morris, Day, Adam, White, McMillin, Hunt, Rantz, Hume, Moch (USA)

1948: I. Turner, D. Turner, Hardy, Ahlgren, Butler, Brown, Smith, Stack, Purchase (USA)

1952: Shakespeare, Fields, Dunbar, Murphy, Detweiler, Proctor, Frye, Stevens, Manring (USA)

1956: Charlton, Wight, Cooke, Beer, Esselstyn, Grimes, Wailes, Morey, Becklean (USA)

1960: Rulffs, Schröder, F. Schepke, K. Schepke, von Groddeck, Hopp, Bittner, Lenk, Padge (EUA)

1964: J. Amlong, T. Amlong, Budd, Clark, Cwiklinski, Foley, Knecht, Stowe, Zimonyi (USA)

1968: Meyer, Hottenrott, Schreyer, Hirschfelder, Henning, Siebert, Ulbricht, Ott, Tiersch (FRG)

1972: Hurt, Veldman, Joyce, Hunter, Wilson, Earl, Coker, Robertson, Dickie (NZL)

1976: Baumgart, Döhn, Klatt, Lück, Wendisch, Kostulski, Karnatz, Prudöhl, Danielowski (GDR)

1980: Krauß, Koppe, Kons, Friedrich, Doberschütz, Karnatz, Dühring, Höing, Ludwig (GDR)

1984: Horn, Crawford, J. M. Evans, Steele, Main, Ma. Evans, Neufeld, Turner, McMahon (CAN)

1988: Rabe, Schultz, Wessling, Maennig, Mellinghaus, Möllenkamp, Domian, Eichholz, Klein (FRG)

1992: Barber, Crosby, Forgeron, Marland, Paul, Porter, Rascher, Robertson, Wallace (CAN)

1996: Maasdijk, Florijn, Duyster, Bartman, Zwolle, van der Zwan, van Steenis, Simon, Rienks (NED)

2000: Lindsay, Hunt-Davis, Dennis, Attrill, Grubor, West, Scarlett, Trapmore, Douglas (GBR)

2004: Read, Allen, Ahrens, Hansen, Deakin, Beery, Hoopman, Volpenheim, Cipollone (USA)

2008: Light, Rutledge, Byrnes, Wetzel, Howard, Seiterle, Kreek, Hamilton, Price (CAN)

2012: Adamski, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Schmidt, Müller, Mennigen, Wilke, Sauer (GER)

2016: Durant, Ransley, Hodge, Gotrel, Reed, Bennett, Langridge, Satch, Hill (GBR)

World champions – Men's eight

1962: (Meyer, Plagemann, Aeffke, Behrens, Wallbrecht, von Groddeck, Ingo Kliefoth, Bernd Kruse, cox Ahrens)
1966: (Meyer, Schreyer, Schwan, Luhn, Hertel, Henning, Ulbricht, Kuhn, cox Niehusen)
1970: (Borchmann, Jobst, Zander, Gust, Martens, Ahrendt, Foppke, Puls, cox Zahn)
1974: (Shealy, Stevenson, Cashin, Norelius, Everett, Vespoli, Mickelson, Brown, cox Weinberg)
1975: (Arndt, Döhn, Wendisch, Ulrich, Klatt, Kostulski, Karnatz, Prudöhl, cox Ludwig)
1977: (Sredzki, Lindner, Gottschalt, Kons, Lück, Frieberg, Karnatz, Gunkel, cox Jahncke)
1978: (Schumann, Karnatz, Sredzki, Ebert, Ulrich, Jährling, Dühring, Höing, cox Kaiser)
1979: (Schiller, Friedrich, Wenzel, Ulrich, Höing, Karnatz, Krauß, Rodewald, cox Ludwig)
1981: (Gudauskas, Solomakhin, Krilov, Diduk, Narushaitis, Narmontas, Pinskus, Maystrenka, cox Nizhegorodov)
1982: (O'Connell, Stanley, Stevenson, Keys, White-Parsons, White, Brook, Rodger, cox Hay)
1983: (Stanley, Stevenson, Rodger, White-Parsons, White, Mabbott, Keys, Atherfold, cox Hay)
1985: (Komarov, Diduk, Pinskus, But, Omelyanovich, Hurkovskiy, Voloshin, Vasilyev, cox Dmytrenko)
1986: (Galloway (b), Batten, Cooper, McKay, Doyle, Tomkins, Popa, Evans, cox Caterson)
1987: (Teti, Smith, Patton, Still, Nordell, McLaughlin, Burden, Pescatore, cox Bauer)
1989: (Puttlitz, Keßlau, Steffes-Mies, Balster, Dietrich, Mauerwerk, Wessling, Baar, cox Klein)
1990: (Baar (b), Balster, Dietrich, Korte, Richter, Steffes-Mies, Ungemach, Weyrauch, cox Klein)
1991: (Steffes-Mies, Balster, Fischer, Streppelhoff, Hecht, Klapheck, Wessling, Baar, cox Klein)
1993: (Baar, Hoeltzenbein, Lütkefels, Richter, Scholz, Steffes-Mies, Streppelhoff, von Ettingshausen, cox Thiede)
1994: (Brown, Hall, Honebein, Kaehler, Klepacki, Koven, McKibbon, Smith, cox Segaloff)
1995: (Baar, Forster, Kirchhoff, Landvoigt, Lerche, Richter, Sator, Weber, cox Thiede)
1997: (Ahrens, Bea, Henry, Kaehler, Miller, Richter, Wherley, Cummins, cox Cipollone)
1998: (Ahrens, Collins, Kaehler, Klepacki, Miller, Volpenhein, Welsh, Wherley, cox Cipollone)
1999: (Volpenhein (b), Kaehler, Collins, Welsh, Wherley, Klepacki, Miller, Ahrens, cox Cipollone)
2001: (Măstăcan (b), Corbeanu, Nemțoc, Florariu, Cornea, Bănică, Pîrvan, Măstăcan, cox Gheorghe)
2002: (Swick (b), Light, Rutledge, Hamilton, Stankevicius, Hoskins, Kreek, Powell, cox Price)
2003: (Stankevicius, Light, Rutledge, Hamilton, Calder, Hoskins, Kreek, Powell, cox Price)
2005: (Daniels, Deakin, Coppola, Beery, Inman, Volpenhein, Hoopman, McElhenney, cox Blomquist)
2006: (Dießner, Schulte, Koltzk, Stüer, Tebrügge, Siemes, Engelmann, Heidicker, cox Thiede)
2007: (Light (b), Rutledge, Byrnes, Wetzel, Howard, Seiterle, Kreek, Hamilton, cox Price)
2009: (Käufer, Hauffe, Mennigen, Wilke, Schmidt, Adamski, Seifert, Schmidt, cox Sauer)
2010: (Hauffe, Reinelt, Wilke, Mennigen, Schmidt, Müller, Seifert, Schmidt, cox Sauer)
2011: (Hauffe, Kuffner, Johannesen, Reinelt, Schmidt, Müller, Mennigen, Wilke, cox Sauer)
2013: (Ritchie, Ransley, Gregory, Reed, Sbihi, Triggs Hodge, Nash, Satch, cox Hill)
2014: (Reilly-O'Donnell, Tarrant, Satch, Gotrel, Reed, Bennett, Ransley, Louloudis, cox Hill)
2015: (Gotrel, Louloudis, Reed, Bennett, Sbihi, Gregory, Nash, Satch, cox Hill)
2017: (Weißenfeld, Wimberger, Planer, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)
2018: (Weißenfeld, Wimberger, Planer, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)
2019: (Weißenfeld, Follert, Reinhardt, Johannesen, Schneider, Jakschik, Schmidt, Ocik, cox Sauer)

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