Graeme Thomas

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Graeme Thomas (born November 8, 1988 ) is a British rower .

Athletic career

Graeme Thomas didn't start rowing until 2008 after attempting to join the Sale Sharks rugby union team . At the European Championships in 2011 he started for the first time internationally for the British rowing team and finished fifth in a double scull with Henry Pelly . In 2012 Graeme Thomas rowed in a single row and finished fourth at both the Rowing World Cup in Munich and the European Championships in Varese .

In 2013 Thomas moved into the double fours and also won at the World Cup opener in Sydney. At the 2013 World Championships, Graeme Thomas, Sam Townsend , Charles Cousins and Peter Lambert won the bronze medal behind the Croatians and the Germans. At the start of the 2014 season, the British double foursome in the same line-up as last year was defeated by the Ukrainians in the final of the European Championships , 0.27 seconds behind. After two victories in the World Cup, the British lost in the World Cup final against the Ukrainians, this time 0.05 seconds behind. At the European Championships in 2015 , the double scull started with the line-up of Jack Beaumont , Sam Townsend, Graeme Thomas and Peter Lambert. Behind the boats from Russia and Ukraine, the British received the bronze medal. At the world championships , Cousins ​​were again in the boat instead of Beaumont; fourth place meant the direct Olympic qualification for 2016. At the European Championships in 2016 occupied Angus Groom , Townsend, Thomas and Lambert fifth. The team was nominated for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with the same cast . Graeme Thomas, however, contracted a flu-like infection and traveled to the games already battered. Before the run-up he had to be canceled and replaced by the substitute rower Jack Beaumont.

In the 2017 season, Thomas only rowed internationally again at the World Championships in Florida. In the double scull he did not make it into the finals together with Angus Groom. Spontaneously he also rowed in quadruples with Jack Beaumont, Jonathan Walton and John Collins after fourth team member Peter Lambert fell ill just before the finals. With Graeme Thomas on strike, the team won the silver medal behind the Lithuanian selection.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GB rower Graeme Thomas forced to miss Rio Olympics by “flu-like virus”. In: www.theguardian.com. Press Association / The Guardian , August 2, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Graeme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1988