Oliver Robert George Cook (born 5 June 1990) is a British international rower. He is a world champion and an Olympian.

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Whilst in education at

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he gained colours for the

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eights. In 2007 he rowed across the

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to raise money for charity. After leaving Abingdon in 2008 he attended the

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, where he studied International Relations and History. In 2011 Ollie was part of the Row Zambezi Expedition. It was the first time anyone had rowed the 1,000 km of the Upper Zambezi, starting from near its source on the Angolan/Zambian border to Victoria Falls in Zambia. The Expedition raised over £25,000 for Village Water. He is currently studying for a postgraduate diploma in International Development at East Berkshire College. He is the brother of British rower Jamie Cook.

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In 2012 he became part of the

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squad and was selected for the 2012 World Rowing U23 Championships in

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. The following year he was part of the Men's Coxless Pairs at the

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with James Foad. The pair won the B Final. He won a European Bronze Medal in the Men's Eight at the

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. In 2016 he won a Men's Coxed Pair

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at the World Rowing Cup in Poznan before becoming a world champion in the Men's Coxed Pair during the

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with

Callum McBrierty Callum McBrierty is a British rower. Career McBrierty competed for Durham University Boat Club as a student. Alongside Oliver Cook and cox Henry Fieldman, McBrierty took Gold in the men's coxed pair at the 2016 World Championships in Rott ...

and

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. In 2017 he was named in the Oxford eight for the 2017 boat race alongside his brother Jamie and fellow Old Abingdonian Vassilis Ragoussis; a race in which Oxford won. At the

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. The same crew then won a bronze medal at the

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. In 2021, he won a second European gold medal when winning the coxless four in

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, Italy. At the

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in Tokyo, he appeared for Team GB in the coxless four event. The team finished fourth after veering off course in the closing stages of the final. Cook, who had the responsibility for steering, humbly accepted the blame for the error, though it was later pointed out it had not been his fault.

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