William Spencer Satch (born 9 June 1989) is a British

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and Olympic gold medallist.

Rowing career

Satch was educated at Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in southeast Oxfordshire. His rowing coach was New Zealand gold medallist Shane O'Brien, who was deputy headmaster at Shiplake College. Satch rows for

Leander Club Leander Club, founded in 1818, is one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world, and the oldest non-academic club. It is based in Remenham in Berkshire, England and adjoins Henley-on-Thames. Only three other surviving clubs were founded prior t ...

in Henley-on-Thames, and was appointed a vice-captain of the club in 2018. Satch won the bronze medal, rowing with George Nash in the

coxless pair A coxless pair is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two rowers, who propel the boat with sweep oars. The crew consists of a pair of rowers, each having one oar, one on the stroke side (rower's right ...

at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In September 2013 Satch stroked the GB men's eight to the gold medal at the World Rowing Championships in Chungju, Korea and repeated the gold at the World Rowing Championships in

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in 2014. He was part of the British team (at stroke) 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 ...

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in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight that gained a hat-trick of wins over the German Olympic champions. The crew was Matt Gotrel, Constantine Louloudis,

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, Paul Bennett, Moe Sbihi,

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, George Nash and Phelan Hill. In May 2016, he was part of the GB men's eight which won bronze at the European Championships. Later in 2016, he stroked the British men's eight to a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. He won a bronze medal at the

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, as part of the coxless four and then won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, as part of the eight with James Rudkin, Alan Sinclair,

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, Thomas George, Moe Sbihi, Oliver Wynne-Griffith,

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and Henry Fieldman.

Awards

Satch was awarded the in the Queen's

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list for services to rowing.

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Satch, William 1989 births Living people People from Henley-on-Thames Members of Leander Club English male rowers British male rowers Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Great Britain Olympic medalists in rowing Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Members of the Order of the British Empire