Andrew Triggs Hodge

Triggs Hodge 2007

Andrew Triggs Hodge , OBE (born March 3, 1979 in Halton near Aylesbury ) is a retired British rower who won Olympic gold in the four without a helmsman in 2008 and 2012 and in the eight in 2016 .

Career

Triggs Hodge attended school in Burnsall and later in Threshfield and was active as a cyclist. He found his way to rowing at Staffordshire University and completed his master's degree in Oxford. In 2005 he was in the victorious boat for Oxford in the Boat Race .

In 2002 Triggs Hodge took part in the rowing world championships for the first time and finished sixth with the British eighth . The following year he won the bronze medal in the boat. At the 2004 Olympic Games , the British eighth missed the A final and finished ninth in the end.

After winning the Boat Race in 2005, Triggs Hodge and his Oxford teammate Peter Reed took part in the eliminations of the British national rowing team and won this race, Reed and Triggs Hodge repeated this victory in the years 2006 to 2008. The British head coach Jürgen Groebler set Reed and Triggs Hodge along with Alex Partridge and Steve Williams in the new British foursome without, the flagship of the British Rowing Association. The four-man remained unbeaten in 27 races from 2005 to the 2007 World Cup in Lucerne, winning all World Cup races and the world championship titles in 2005 and 2006 for two years . After finishing fourth at the 2007 World Rowing Championships , Partridge was replaced by Tom James for the Olympic season. The boat was only able to compete together with the new line-up for the first time at the World Cup in Poznań after injury problems and took second place there. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, the four-man fought an exciting battle with the Australians and just about won the gold medal in the end.

Over the next three years, Reed and Triggs Hodge started in twos without a helmsman and won silver at the 2009 , 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships behind New Zealanders Hamish Bond and Eric Murray . In 2012, the two returned to the four without: At the 2012 Olympic Games , the four with Alex Gregory , Peter Reed, Tom James and Andrew Triggs Hodge won the gold medal.

From 2013 he sat in the British eight . At the rowing world championships in Chungju , South Korea , they won gold and thus defeated the Germany eighth . He had always won the world championship from 2009 to 2011 and was also Olympic champion in 2012. In the 2014 season, Triggs Hodge switched back to the uncontrolled foursome and also won the title at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam. After a year break, Triggs Hodge took third place at the European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel at the start of the 2016 season with the British eighth behind the Germans and Russians . In the final of the 2016 Olympic Games , as in the three world championships since 2013, the British managed to win ahead of Germany eighth. After the Olympic Games, he ended his active career.

Web links

• Andrew Triggs Hodge at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Andrew Triggs Hodge in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Brief portrait on olympics.org.uk