Charles Richard Jeremy Elwes (born 15 July 1997) is a British national representative

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. He is an Olympic medallist and two-time world champion.

School, varsity & club rowing

Elwes was educated at

Radley College Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley, is a public school (independent boarding school for boys) near Radley, Oxfordshire, England, which was founded in 1847. The school covers including playing fields, a golf course, a lake, and ...

where he took up rowing. He then attended

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

where he rowed in the Yale senior 1st eight in 2015/16 and 2016/17 inter-collegiate racing seasons. His senior club rowing in England has been from the

Leander Club Leander Club, founded in 1818, is one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world, and the oldest non-academic club. It is based in Remenham in Berkshire, England and adjoins Henley-on-Thames. Only three other surviving clubs were founded prior to ...

. After Yale, Elwes went up to Oxford to study medical ethics. He rowed at six in the Oxford crew which won The Boat Race 2022. Also in 2022, he won the

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(the blue riband event at the

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), rowing for Leander.

International representative career

Elwes first achieved national selection for Great Britain while still a schoolboy when selected in a junior coxed four to race at the 2013

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.Charles Elwes at World Rowing
/ref> In 2014 he was again selected in the GB junior men's 4+ and racing in that crew with his Yale and future world champion crewmate Thomas Digby, Elwes won a silver medal at the Junior World Championships. Elwes & Digby stayed in that crew for the 2015 Junior World Championships and won another silver as a coxless four. In 2017 Elwes moved into the Great Britain U23 representative squad. In the GB U23 coxless four he achieved podium finishes at three successive

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- silver in 2017; silver in 2018 and gold (and an U23 world championship title) in 2019. 2021 saw Elwes selected in the five seat of the Great Britain senior men's eight. They won a European championship gold medal in

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, Italy and won at the

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II. At the delayed

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in Tokyo, Elwes won Olympic bronze in the British men's eight. 2022 saw Elwes retain the five seat in the Great Britain men's eight. In that international season the crew won gold at two World Rowing Cups and at the European Rowing Championships. Elwes in the that boat went on to win gold and a world championship title at the 2022 World Rowing Championships in Račice. The following year in 2023, he won a second successive world championship gold medal in the men's eight at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Elwes, Charles 1997 births Living people British male rowers Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford People educated at Radley College World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain 21st-century British people People from Randburg