Jonathan Searle

Jonathan William C. "Jonny" Searle (born May 8, 1969 in Walton-on-Thames ) is a British rower who was 1992 Olympic champion in two with helmsman .

Career

Jonathan Searle was second in the four-man without a helmsman at the Junior World Championships in 1986 , and in 1987 he rowed in the victorious four-man. As a student at the University of Oxford , he took part in the Boat Race in 1988, 1989 and 1990 . At the World Rowing Championships in 1989, he won his first medal in the adult class with bronze in eighth . In 1990 the British eighth finished fourth at the World Rowing Championships, with his younger brother Gregory Searle now also taking part . In 1991 the two brothers won bronze at the World Championships with the eighth finish. In 1992, the two of them switched to the two with the helmsman together with the helmsman Garry Herbert . 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 Jonathan Searle competed in the World Cup in sculling boats without much success, in 1999 he switched back to the four without a helmsman. At the 1999 World Rowing Championships he started in the non-Olympic four - man team with a helmsman and won another World Championship silver.

Web links

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