Ben Hunt-Davis

Hunt-Davis (2014)

Francis Benedict "Ben" Hunt-Davis (born March 15, 1972 in Tidworth , Wiltshire ) is a former British rower .

Hunt-Davis began rowing at Shiplake College. At the Junior World Championships in 1990 he took fourth place in a pair with helmsman . From 1992, the 1.98 m tall Hunt-Davis mostly rowed in the British eight . At the 1992 Olympic Games , he finished sixth with eighth place. In 1993 Hunt-Davis finished fifth in the British four-man without a helmsman at the 1993 World Rowing Championships . In 1994 the British eighth missed the A final at the 1994 World Rowing Championships and placed eighth. At the 1995 World Rowing Championships , the boat reached sixth place. In Atlanta at the 1996 Olympic Games , the boat came in eighth.

1997 Hunt-Davis entered together with Robert Thatcher in two without a helmsman . In the Rowing World Cup , the two took second place three times. At the rowing world championships in 1997 , the boat only achieved fifth place. In 1998 Hunt-Davis and Thatcher moved into eighth position, and at the 1998 World Rowing Championships , the British large boat won the B-final and thus placed seventh. The following year, the British eight with Robert Thatcher, Hunt-Davis, Fred Scarlett , Louis Attrill , Luka Grubor , Kieran West , Timothy Foster , Steve Trapmore and helmsman Rowley Douglas finished second behind the US eight at the 1999 World Rowing Championships . In 2000, the Croats won the World Cup opener ahead of the British. The other two World Cup regattas were won by the British, with the line-up changing in the three races. Thatcher and Foster from the 1999 boat were missing from the crew for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, but Andrew Lindsay and Simon Dennis were there. The British won the gold medal in Sydney ahead of the Australian hosts and the Croatians, the first in eighth since 1912.

Hunt-Davis ended his international career with an Olympic victory. He then worked for the British Rowing Federation and was part of the organizational staff at the 2006 World Championships and the 2012 Olympic Rowing Competitions.

Web links

• Ben Hunt-Davis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ben Hunt-Davis at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MBEs D – G. In: news.bbc.co.uk. BBC , December 30, 2000, accessed November 25, 2018 .