James Roe

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(born 28 March 1988) is a British adaptive rower. He was part of the mixed coxed team that won gold at both the

2011 World Rowing Championships The 2011 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 28 August to 4 September 2011 at Lake Bled in the Slovenian city of Bled. The annual week-long rowing regatta is organized by World Rowing Federation Worl ...

and the

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Personal life

Roe was born on 28 March 1988 in

Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...

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, England. He is visually impaired. In 2009 he graduated from

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with a

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degree in Fine Art.

Rowing

Roe started rowing when he joined his local club (Stratford Upon-Avon Boat Club) at the age of 12. He competes in the legs, trunks and arms adaptive mixed coxed four (LTAMix4+) event and won a gold medal at the 2009

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, alongside Vicky Hansford, David Smith,

Naomi Riches Naomi Joy Riches MBE (born on 15 June 1983) is a British adaptive rower who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Personal life Riches was born on 15 June 1983 in Hammersmith, Lon ...

and

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Rhiannon Jones. At the

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held at

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, New Zealand he won a silver medal with Smith, Riches,

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and Jones. In 2011 he competed at the

held at

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, Slovenia. He won the gold medal in the LTAMix4+ event alongside crewmates

Pam Relph Pamela Lillian Relph MBE (born 14 November 1989) is a British adaptive rower who won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics, thus becoming the first double gold medallist in Paralympic rowing. Personal life Relph was b ...

, Naomi Riches, David Smith and cox,

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. They completed the one kilometre course in a time of three minutes, 27.10 seconds, finishing nearly five seconds ahead of runners-up Canada. The result qualified a boat for Great Britain into the

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. The crew repeated their gold medal result at the Munich World Cup event in 2012. Roe was selected along with Relph, Riches, Smith, and van den Broeke, to compete for

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in the mixed coxed four event. The crew took gold at

Eton Dorney Dorney Lake (also known as Eton College Rowing Centre, and as Eton Dorney as a 2012 Summer Olympics venue) is a purpose-built rowing lake in England. It is near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and is around 3 km (2 miles) west of Wi ...

on 2 September. Roe was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to rowing.
Cabinet Office

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Roe, James 1988 births Living people English male rowers Rowers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic rowers of Great Britain People from Stratford-upon-Avon Alumni of Oxford Brookes University Members of the Order of the British Empire Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain People educated at King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Paralympic medalists in rowing

Personal life

Rowing

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