Team Mall - Peter Reed

 

Double World Champion in the men's coxless four, Peter Reed is the rising star of British rowing - despite the fact that he only started rowing four years ago.

Peter first represented Great Britain at the under-23 World Championships whilst still a student, where his talent was first spotted on a gym rowing machine. Peter later earned an Oxford Blue whilst studying for a Masters, and helped Oxford to win the Boat Race comfortably in 2005.

Peter was selected for Great Britain's lead men's boat, along with Alex Partridge, Andrew Triggs-Hodge and Steve Williams MBE. The coxless four won the World Cup and took the World Championship Gold in Japan in 2005. Peter succeeded in defending his World Championship title at Windsor in August 2006, and is now going for gold at Beijing.

Peter is representing the following Malls, click to visit their What's On pages: Bristol; Gloucester.

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Peter's Blog:

Selected for the first World Cup, Apr 2008

A 2km rowing machine test, several seat races and miles of subjective analysis all contributed to selection over the last five weeks since final selection trials (an odd title considering this sentence) and now it is finally finished. The lead men's sweep boat for the first World Cup is again the coxless four, but with a new look...Read more >

Recent Results:

2007 Gold - Henley Royal Regatta (coxless four)
2007 Gold - Amsterdam World Cup (M8+)
2007 Gold - Linz World Cup (coxless four)
2006 Gold - World Championships, Windsor (coxless four)
2006 Gold - Lucerne World Cup (coxless four)
2006 Gold - Poznan World Cup (coxless four)
2006 Gold - Munich World Cup (coxless four)
2005 Gold - World Championships, Gifu, Japan

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