Matthew T Tarrant (born 11 July 1990) is a British
rower
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.
Rowing career
Tarrant won a gold medal in the
eight at the
2014 World Championships in
Bosbaan,
Amsterdam
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. He was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the
2015 World Rowing Championships
The 2015 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 30 August to 6 September 2015 at Lac d'Aiguebelette, Aiguebelette in France.
Description
The annual week-long rowing regatta was organized by FISA (the ...
at
Lac d'Aiguebelette
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Geography
Description
With a surface area of 5.45 km2 and a depth of 71 meters it is one of the largest natural lakes of F ...
in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the coxed pair with
Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell and
Henry Fieldman.
He won a bronze medal at the
2017 World Rowing Championships
The 2017 World Rowing Championships were the 47th edition of the World Rowing Championships that were held from 24 September to 1 October 2017 in Sarasota, Florida.
Host selection
During 2013, Plovdiv and Sarasota, Florida both applied to hos ...
in
Sarasota, Florida
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, as part of the coxless four. He then won a bronze medal at the
2018 World Rowing Championships in
Plovdiv, Bulgaria, as part of the eight with
James Rudkin,
Alan Sinclair,
Tom Ransley
Thomas Matthew Ransley (born 6 September 1985) is a retired British rower. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he was part of the British crew that won the gold medal in the eight, was twice a World Champion and in 2015 was the Eur ...
,
Thomas George,
Moe Sbihi,
Oliver Wynne-Griffith,
Will Satch and Fieldman. He won another bronze medal the following year at the
2019 World Rowing Championships
The 2019 World Rowing Championships were held in Ottensheim, Austria from 25 August to 1 September 2019. Apart from Ottensheim, the right to host the championships was contested by Hamburg in Germany, Račice in the Czech Republic, and Varese ...
in
Ottensheim
Ottensheim is a municipality in the district of Urfahr-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. In July 2008 it hosted the World Rowing Championships, and it did so again in 2019.
History
First settlements in this area date from about 4 ...
,
Austria
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as part of the eight with George, Rudkin,
Josh Bugajski, Sbihi,
Jacob Dawson, Wynne-Griffith,
Thomas Ford and Fieldman.
References
External links
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Matthew Tarrant– British Rowing profile
1990 births
Living people
British male rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
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