Harry Brightmore (born 1 July 1994) is a British rowing coxswain and a two-time world champion.

Junior and varsity rowing

Brightmore attended King's School, Chester where he took up coxing in 2008. He studied at

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senior club rowing has been from the

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. In 2023, he won the

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(the blue riband event at the

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) for the second time, in the stern of an

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composite men's senior eight. His 2021 victory in the same event was in an all

crew.

International representative career.

Brightmore made his international representative debut for Great Britain in a coxed four which rowed to an overall fourth placing at the 2014

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.Brightmore at World Rowing
/ref> In 2015 and 2016 he coxed the British U23 men's eight at those years'

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. His first senior national representative appearance was under the canvas of the GB men's coxed pair at the

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. It was 2022 when Brightmore took hold of the rudder ropes in the GB men's senior eight and that same year he became a world champion when that crew won the eights title at the 2022 World Rowing Championships. He had earlier won gold that season at the

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. At the

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in Belgrade, he won a second World Championship gold medal in the men's eight.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brightmore, Harry 1994 births Living people British male rowers Coxswains (rowing) World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain 21st-century British people