Peter Moir Haining (born 3 April 1962) is a male Scottish-born rower and three-time World Lightweight Sculling Champion who competed for Great Britain and England.

Biography

Haining was born at

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, Scotland, the son of Jackie and Betty Haining.Christopher Dodd ''The Lightweight Champion of Champions'' British Rowing Almanack 1996 His father and sister were rowers, and he learnt to row at Loch Lomond Rowing Club. He attended Levenvale Primary School and Vale of Leven Academy and left school to start apprenticeship as painter and decorator, but as international level rowing in the UK at the time was centred on London he went south to join

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. In 1984 he went to Nottingham to the National lightweight squad after being impressed by a

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four at Henley. His first international success came in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, where the GB lightweight four, rowing as

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, won gold. Haining would never row for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. He also won two silver medals at the

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in the lightweight

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in 1986 and 1987 and bronze in the lightweight eight in 1990. He was part of the coxless pairs crew, with Christopher Bates, that won the national title rowing for

, at the 1988 National Rowing Championships and was a member of the crew that won the

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at Henley Royal Regatta in 1989 on a . In 1990 when he was persistently late for training in the eight, his coach pushed him into

single scull A single scull (or a scull) is a rowing boat designed for a single person who propels the boat with two oars, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly semi-circular in cross-section in order to mini ...

ing. Although a lightweight rower, Haining competed for Great Britain at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

in Barcelona, in the unplaced

quadruple scull A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated 4x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each hand. R ...

. He was then World Champion in lightweight single sculls in 1993, 1994 and 1995. Rowing for

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, he won the

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in 1994, 1995, and 1996 and competed in the single scull at the

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in Atlanta, finishing 11th overall, rather than competing in one of the lightweight events introduced at that games. Haining was runner up to

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in the

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at Henley in 1997 and won a silver medal at the World Championships lightweight

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s in 1998. In 2000 he won the Wingfield Sculls again. His last international appearance before retiring was in the GB lightweight eight at the World Rowing Championships in 2002. In 2005 Haining joined Richard Spratley as coach at Oxford Brookes University Boat Club where he was responsible for training all crews including that winning The Temple Challenge Cup in 2006. For a period around 2010 Haining coached at

Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club (LMHBC) is a rowing club for members and staff of Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), Oxford. It was founded in 1899. History LMHBC first competed in inter-college OURCs racing events in 1977, when a women's division ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haining, Peter 1962 births Living people Olympic rowers for Great Britain Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Scottish male rowers English male rowers Rowers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Commonwealth Games medallists in rowing Sportspeople from Dumbarton Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games