Andrew Holmes

Andrew Holmes medal table
Rowers
United Kingdom
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1984 Los Angeles	Foursome with
gold	1988 Seoul	Two without
bronze	1988 Seoul	Two with
World championships
gold	1986 Nottingham	Two with
gold	1987 Copenhagen	Two with
Commonwealth Games
gold	1986 Edinburgh	Foursome without
gold	1986 Edinburgh	Two without

Andrew ("Andy") Holmes , MBE (born October 15, 1959 in London , † October 24, 2010 ibid) was a British rower .

Holmes, who grew up in London, won the gold medal in the four-man discipline at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . In 1986 he won the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in two different competitions, on the one hand in the four without a helmsman, on the other hand in the two without a helmsman (together with Steven Redgrave ). In the same year in Nottingham, the world title in two with helmsman was added (with Redgrave and Patrick Sweeney ). Holmes, Redgrave and Sweeney won another world title in 1987 in Copenhagen .

At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , Holmes was able to win two more medals. He and Redgrave became Olympic champion for the second time in a two-man without a helmsman. In addition, with Sweeney, he won the bronze medal in two with helmsman. After this success, Holmes worked as a trainer in France for a year , but then, surprisingly for the public, withdrew completely from rowing. Instead, he built his own moving company in London.

Andrew Holmes died of the infectious disease leptospirosis at the age of 51 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rachel Quarrell: Olympic rowing champion Andy Holmes dies aged 51. The Daily Telegraph, October 25, 2010, accessed January 2, 2016 . 

Web links

• Andrew Holmes at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Andrew Holmes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Interview with Andrew Holmes - The Guardian , March 5, 2006