Paul Bennett
MBE
Bennett at the 2016 European Rowing Championships
Personal information
Born16 December 1988 (1988-12-16) (age 35)
Leeds, England
Alma materKing's College London
Kellogg College, Oxford
Height6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Weight15 st 10 lb (100 kg)
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2016 Rio de JaneiroM8+
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2014 AmsterdamM8+
Gold medal – first place2015 AiguebeletteM8+
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2015 PoznanM8+

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

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

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]

References

  1. ↑ "Paul Bennett". British Rowing. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "2014 World Rowing Championships: Event Information". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "2015 World Rowing Championships results". World Rowing.
  4. ↑ "Biographical information". Olympedia.
  5. ↑ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N15.
  6. ↑ "New Year's Honours List 2017" (PDF). www.gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  7. ↑ "Kellogg alumnus to represent Great Britain at the Olympics | Kellogg College". www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016.
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