Nathaniel “Noddy” Reilly-O'Donnell (born 13 April 1988) is a British
rower
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educated at
St Leonard's School, Durham and
University College London
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Biography
Junior
Started rowing age 12 at
St Leonard's School, Durham. At the 2005 World Junior Championships, he finished 7th overall in the coxed four. At U16 level, he competed in the pair in the J16 GB v France Match. Both he and the GB team won the match. In 2006, he became World Junior Champion in the men's four.
As a Great Britain squad captain at the 2007 Youth Olympic Festival in Australia, Noddy won three medals: two golds in the coxless four and the pair, and a silver in the eight. In the 2009 World Championships in
Račice he won a bronze medal at the World U23 Championships in the men's eight.
Senior
At the
2011 World Rowing Championships in
Bled
Bled (; german: Veldes,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 146. in older sources also ''Feldes'') is a town on Lake Bled in the Upper C ...
, Nathaniel and crew mates
Alex Partridge
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Education
Partridge started rowing at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and attended Oxford Brookes University to s ...
,
James Foad,
Cameron Nichol,
Moe Sbihi,
Greg Searle
Gregory Mark Pascoe Searle (born 20 March 1972) is a British Olympic rower educated at Hampton School and London South Bank University.
Career
Greg Searle is an Olympic gold medalist, winning the coxed pairs event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic ...
,
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 ...
,
Daniel Ritchie and
Phelan Hill won a silver medal in the men's eight.
During the 2011 World Cup Series he raced in the men's eight, taking a silver medal behind Germany in
Munich
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and a bronze in
Lucerne. He competed at the
2014 World Rowing Championships
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in
Bosbaan,
Amsterdam
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, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight.
In the 2015 season he won gold in the men's four at the
2015 European Rowing Championships in
Poznan, along with crewmates
Alan Sinclair, Tom Ransley and
Scott Durant
Scott David Durant (born 12 February 1988) is a British rower and gold medallist in the Men's Eight at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games.
Rowing career
Durant started his rowing career at Lancaster Royal Grammar School (LRGS). He competed at the ...
. The same crew finished fifth at the World Cup in Varese. He was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the
2015 World Rowing Championships
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Description
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at
Lac d'Aiguebelette
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Geography
Description
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in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the coxed pair with
Matthew Tarrant
Matthew T Tarrant (born 11 July 1990) is a British rower.
Rowing career
Tarrant won a gold medal in the eight at the 2014 World Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam. He was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 Worl ...
and
Henry Fieldman.
Achievements
Junior World Championships
*2005 – 7th, Coxed Four
*2006
Bosbaan – Gold, Coxless Four
World U23 Championships
*2007 6th, Men's Eight
*2008 5th, Men's Eight
*2009
Račice – Bronze, Men's Eight
*2010
Brest
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**Brest Region
**Brest Airport
**Brest Fortress
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* Břest, Czech Republic
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** Arrondissement of Brest
**Brest Bretagne Airport
** Château de Brest
*Br ...
– Silver, Men's Eight
World Championships
*2011
Bled
Bled (; german: Veldes,''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 146. in older sources also ''Feldes'') is a town on Lake Bled in the Upper C ...
– Silver, Men's Eight
*2013
Chungju – 5th, Coxless Four
*2014
Amsterdam
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– Gold, Men's Eight
*2015
Aiguebelette – Gold, Men's Coxed Pair
European Rowing Championships
* 2008 6th, Men's Eight
* 2014 4th, Coxless Pair
* 2015
Poznan – Gold, Coxless Four
World Cups
*2011
Lucerne – Bronze, Eight
*2011
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
– Silver, Eight
*2012
Belgrade – Silver, Eight
External links
British Rowing Biography*
World Rowing Under 23 Championships
References
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1988 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ealing
English male rowers
British male rowers
Alumni of University College London
Rowers from Greater London
World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
European Rowing Championships medalists