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Richard Chambers (rower)

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Richard Chambers
British lightweight coxless four (Richard Chambers, 2nd from right) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full nameRichard Scott Chambers
NationalityBritish
Born (1985-06-10) 10 June 1985 (age 39)
Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Alma materOxford Brookes University
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
SportRowing
EventLightweight
ClubLeander Club
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2012 London LM4-
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Munich LM4-
Gold medal – first place 2010 Karapiro LM4-
Silver medal – second place 2015 Aiguebelette LM2x
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Lake Bled LM4-
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Chungjiu LM2x
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Amsterdam LM4−
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Belgrade LM4−
Silver medal – second place 2015 Poznan LM2x

Richard Scott Chambers (born 10 June 1985) is a British rower, and is the brother of fellow rower Peter Chambers. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he was part of the British crew that won the silver medal in the lightweight men's four.

Biography

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Richard began rowing at the age of 14, at Coleraine Academical Institution, under the coaching of Bobby Platt. He later left Coleraine Inst and joined Bann Rowing Club Coleraine at the age of 16, and went on to represent Ireland in the junior pair at the 2003 Home Internationals in Cork with Stephen Feeney, under the coaching of Simon Hamilton (Bann Rowing Club).

He attended Oxford Brookes University reading Construction Management and rowed for the university boat club, coached by Peter Haining and Richard Spratley. It was there that he progressed into the Great Britain Rowing team.

In 2005, Richard attended the World Under-23 Rowing Championships held in Amsterdam, where he took silver in the Lightweight Men's Quadruple Scull. The following year he won a gold medal and a world best-time in the under-23 Lightweight Men's Pair event with Chris Bartley at Hazewinkel (Belgium). He attended his first senior World Rowing Championships later on that summer (held at Dorney Lake) in the Lightweight Men's Pair.

In 2007 he rowed in the lightweight men's four, alongside James Clarke, Paul Mattick and James Lindsay-Fynn. Together they won the 2007 Rowing World Cup Series, and went on to take the gold medal at the World Rowing Championships in Munich-Oberschleissheim. The following year the same quartet represented Great Britain at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, where they finished in fifth place.

At the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, he won the gold medal in the lightweight men's four, together with Paul Mattick, Rob Williams and Chris Bartley.[2] He was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, where he won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight coxless four with Chris Bartley, Paul Mattick and Rob Williams.[3] He competed at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, where he won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight double sculls with his brother Peter.[4]

He competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight coxless four with Mark Aldred, Chris Bartley and his brother Richard.[5]

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 silver medal as part of the lightweight double scull with Will Fletcher.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Richard Chambers - British Rowing". Britishrowing.org. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Men's four win gold for Britain". News.bbc.co.uk. 6 November 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  3. ^ "2011 World Rowing Championships". WorldRowing.com. World Rowing Federation. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  4. ^ "2013 World Rowing Championships: Event Information". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  5. ^ "2014 World Rowing Championships: Event Information". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  6. ^ "2015 World Rowing Championships results". World Rowing.
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