Kevin Light
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| Born | May 16, 1979 Vancouver, British Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kevin Richard Light (born May 16, 1979) is a Canadian rower. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia but has lived in Victoria, British Columbia since 1985. He began rowing at Stelly's High School in grade 12 and graduating in 1997. He was enrolled at the University of Victoria from 1997 until 2001 where he was part of numerous Canadian University Rowing Championships teams. But the highlight of his university rowing career came in 2001 when Uvic beat the University of Washington at the Opening Day Regatta. He won the gold medal at both the 2003 and 2002 World Championships in Canada's men's eight team in Milan, Italy and Seville, Spain respectively. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Light and his crew finished 5th in the finals of the men's eight. Kevin then graduated from the Victoria Motion Picture School in 2004/2005 and then the Western Academy of Photography in 2008/2009 where he studied photojournalism.
In 2006 Light represented Canada along with fellow Victoria rower Malcolm Howard in the men's straight pair. The two combined to for a thrilling come from behind sprint moving from 6th into a bronze medal position with 500m to go at the 2006 World Rowing Championships at Eton, England.
In 2007 Light again won the gold medal at world championship in the eight in Munich, Germany. Light has been named as to the Canadian men's eight for the 2008 Olympic games to be held in Beijing, China.
Kevin has a sister named Heather Light who was born on June 23, 1981. She works at Thrifty Foods and swims for the special Olympics team in Victoria.
He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's eights with Andrew Byrnes, Kyle Hamilton, Malcolm Howard, Adam Kreek, Ben Rutledge, Dominic Sieterle, Jake Wetzel and cox Brian Price.[1]
Videos
Kevin Light has produced many videos, including some that feature footage of the Canada Men's team training. One of them was an entry for a competition by Concept2. Balls Away was shot in San Francisco while on a training camp in 2007. It was done with the Sony Bravia commercial in mind.[citation needed]
References
- ^ The Canadian Press (2008-08-18). "Gold in Men's Eight, Bronze in Women's Double, Men's Four". TSN.ca. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
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- 1979 births
- Living people
- Olympic rowers of Canada
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Vancouver
- Sportspeople from Victoria, British Columbia
- Canadian male rowers
- University of Victoria alumni
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics