Andy Holmes
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| Full name | Andrew J. Holmes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 October 1959 Uxbridge, Greater London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 24 October 2010 (aged 51) London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kingston Rowing Club, Leander Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Andrew J. "Andy" Holmes MBE (15 October 1959 – 24 October 2010)[1] was a British rower.
Holmes was born in Uxbridge, Greater London, and was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, west London, where he was coached by Olympic rowing silver medallist Jim Clark.[1] After leaving school, he rowed for Kingston Rowing Club and then Leander Club.[2] At the age of 19, he won the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.
He rowed twice in the Olympic Games (in 1984 and 1988) with Sir Steve Redgrave. He was a gold medalist in the Men's Coxed Fours in 1984 and in the Men's Coxless Pairs in 1988, when he also took bronze in the coxed pair. He also rowed in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, winning the coxed fours and the coxless pairs.
He retired from rowing in 1990 and severed most contacts with the sport. His daughter only discovered her father's gold-medal-winning pedigree when reading about him in a book at school.[2]
He died in London in 2010 after contracting a water-borne disease, leptospirosis, that comes from contact with rat urine or ingesting water contaminated with rat urine. It is known commonly as 'Weil's disease'.[3] [4]
See also
References
- ^ a b Olympic Rowing Champion Andy Holmes dies aged 51, The Telegraph, 25 October 2010
- ^ a b "Andy Holmes – Obituary". Daily Telegraph. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ Olympic rowing star Andy Holmes dies 'from water bug' Metro, 25 October 2010
- ^ Andy Holmes: Rower whose partnership with Steve Redgrave sparked a British renaissance in the sport, The Independent, 27 October 2010
External links
- "Andrew J. HOLMES" at World Rowing
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrew John 'Andy' Holmes". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
- Obituary in The Guardian
- Andy Holmes interview by Nick Greenslade in The Observer newspaper, March 5, 2006
- Video of 1988 Olympic Pair race on YouTube
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- English rowers
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- Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- English Olympic medallists
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Rowers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- People educated at Latymer Upper School
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Infectious disease deaths in England
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Male rowers
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- World Rowing Championships medalists