Paul Bennett (born 16 December 1988) is a British
rower
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and Olympic gold medallist.
Rowing career
Bennett won the
Boat Race in 2013 sitting at five for Oxford.
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 with
Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell,
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 ...
,
Will Satch,
Matt Gotrel,
Pete Reed
Peter K. Reed OBE (born 27 July 1981) is a retired British Olympic rower. Reed is a three-times Olympic gold medallist – earning gold in the Men's coxless four at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and then a gold medal in the Men's eight at the 2 ...
,
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 ...
,
Constantine Louloudis
Constantine Michael Louloudis (born 15 September 1991) is a Greek-British Rowing (sport), rower. He is an Olympic Games, Olympic champion, two time World Rowing Championships, world champion and four time The Boat Race, Boat Race winner.
Perso ...
and
Phelan Hill. The following year 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
Lac d'Aiguebelette is a natural lake in the commune of Aiguebelette-le-Lac, within the department of Savoie, France.
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 eight with
Matt Gotrel, Louloudis, Reed,
Moe Sbihi,
Alex Gregory
Alexander John Gregory, (born 11 March 1984) is an English rower and a two-time Olympic Gold medallist from 2012 and 2016 in the Coxless four.
Education
Alex Gregory was educated at the Richard Pate School in Cheltenham, then Bredon Hill Mi ...
,
George Nash, Satch and Hill.
In 2016 he won a gold medal in the
eight at the
2016 Summer Olympics.
Awards
He was appointed
Member of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(MBE) in the
2017 New Year Honours
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for services to rowing.
Education
From the age of about twelve until he was eighteen Bennett was educated at
Roundhay School
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It sits in the Roundhay ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds North East parliamentary constituency.
History Etymology
Round ...
. Later he went on to graduate with a first class MSci in mathematics from
King's College London in 2012, and completed an MSc in
Computer Science
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at
Kellogg College, Oxford
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in 2013.
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References
External links
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1988 births
Living people
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of Kellogg College, Oxford
English male rowers
Rowers from Greater London
British male rowers
World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic rowers of Great Britain
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in rowing
Members of the Order of the British Empire
European Rowing Championships medalists
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