Graeme Edward Thomas (born 8 November 1988) is a British

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Rowing career

Thomas competed at the

2013 World Rowing Championships The 2013 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 25 August to 1 September 2013 at Tangeum Lake, Chungju in South Korea. The annual week-long rowing regatta was organized by FISA (the International Rowin ...

in Chungju, where he won a bronze medal as part of the quad sculls with Sam Townsend, Charles Cousins and Peter Lambert. The following year he competed at the

2014 World Rowing Championships The 2014 World Rowing Championships were the 44th edition of the World Rowing Championships and were held from 24 to 31 August 2014 at Bosbaan, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the second occasion on which the event had been held in Amsterdam, or ...

in Bosbaan,

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, where he won a silver medal as part of the quadruple sculls with Townsend, Cousins and Lambert. He was selected for the quadruple sculls for the 2016 Olympics, but illness forced him to withdraw shortly before racing started. He won a silver medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in

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, as part of the quadruple sculls with Jack Beaumont, Jonathan Walton and John Collins. In 2021, he won a European bronze medal in the double sculls in

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, Italy. Then he won the

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(the premier event for single sculls) at the Henley Royal Regatta.

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* 1988 births Living people English male rowers Sportspeople from Preston, Lancashire World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain European Rowing Championships medalists Olympic rowers for Great Britain Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{UK-rowing-bio-stub