Rob Williams (born 21 January 1985, in

Taplow Taplow is a village and civil parish in the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on the left bank of the River Thames, facing Maidenhead in the neighbouring county of Berkshire, with Cippenham and Burnham to the east. It is the ...

) is a British rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Rowing career

Williams was part of the British squad that topped the medal table 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 ...

, where he won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight coxless four with Richard Chambers, Chris Bartley and

Paul Mattick Paul Mattick Sr. (March 13, 1904 – February 7, 1981) was a German-American Marxist political writer and social revolutionary, whose thought can be placed within the council communist and left communist traditions. Throughout his life, Mattic ...

. He won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games as part of the men's lightweight four.

References

* 1985 births Living people English male rowers British male rowers People from Taplow Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers of Great Britain Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain {{UK-rowing-bio-stub