Nathaniel “Noddy” Reilly-O'Donnell (born 13 April 1988) is a British

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educated at St Leonard's School, Durham and

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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

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, Nathaniel and crew mates

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, James Foad, Cameron Nichol, Moe Sbihi,

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, 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

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and a bronze in Lucerne. He competed at the

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in Bosbaan,

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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

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. 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

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in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the coxed pair with

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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

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– Silver, Men's Eight

World Championships

*2011

– Silver, Men's Eight *2013 Chungju – 5th, Coxless Four *2014

– 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

– Silver, Eight *2012 Belgrade – Silver, Eight

External links

British Rowing Biography
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World Rowing Under 23 Championships

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reilly-Odonnell, Nathaniel 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