Gregory Searle

Gregory Mark Pascoe "Greg" Searle (born March 20, 1972 in Ashford (Kent) ) is a British rower who was 1992 Olympic champion in two with helmsman .

Career

Gregory Searle won the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990 in a four-man without a helmsman , in 1990 he also competed at the World Rowing Championships and finished fourth with the eighth , in which his older brother Jonathan Searle also sat. In 1991 the two brothers won bronze in the eighth championship, while Garry Herbert was the helmsman of the eighth in 1991 . In 1992 the Searles with helmsman Herbert switched to the two with helmsman. In the final of the 1992 Olympic Regatta in Barcelona, ​​the British defeated the Italian two-man with Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale and Giuseppe Di Capua , who had dominated this boat class in the 1980s. The brothers Searle and helmsman Herbert also won the 1993 rowing world championships.

In 1994 the Searles formed a four without a helmsman together with Tim Foster and Rupert Obholzer and thus won World Cup bronze and 1995 World Cup silver, followed by a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 . In 1997 and 1998 Gregory Searle competed in the one . In 1997 he won the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta . At the rowing world championships in 1997 he won the bronze medal behind the American James Koven and the German André Willms , in 1998 Searle was fifth in the world championship. In the 1999 World Cup, Gregory Searle returned to the four without a helmsman, but entered the single again at the World Championships, where he finished 14th. In 2000 Searle rowed together with Ed Coode in two without a helmsman , with whom he took third place twice in the World Cup; At the Olympic Games in Sydney , the two narrowly missed the bronze medal in fourth. After that, Searle ended his rowing career.

In the 2010 World Cup, Searle returned as a member of the British eight and won his first regatta in Bled after a break of almost ten years. After two third places in the World Cup regattas in Munich and Lucerne, Searle won silver with the British eighth at the 2010 World Rowing Championships . After a second and a third place in the 2011 World Cup, the British eighth also won silver at the 2011 World Rowing Championships . At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, the British eighth won the bronze medal with 40-year-old Searle behind Germany and Canada.

Web links

• Gregory Searle at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Gregory Searle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ According to the Olympic database Sports-Reference, he was born in Ashford (Kent), the English Wikipedia gives Ashford (Surrey) as his place of birth.