Mark Hunter (rower)

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Mark John Hunter MBE (born July 1, 1978 in Forest Gate ) is a British rower who won 2008 Olympic gold in the lightweight double scull.

Hunter started rowing at the age of 14. In 1995 he entered the Junior World Championships and won the B final. Until 1999 he was active as a sculler at junior and U23 world championships , but did not reach an A final. In 2001 he switched to oar rowing . With the lightweight eighth he was world championship fifth in 2001. In the next few years he no longer reached an A-final. At the 2004 Olympic Games he drove the four-man to the C-final without a helmsman and finished in 13th place.

In 2005 Hunter switched back to the scullers and together with James Lindsay-Fynn he achieved placements among the top three in double sculls at World Cups. At the World Championships in 2005 with seventh place and in 2006 with eighth place, it was again not enough for a final participation. In 2007 the one-rower Zac Purchase switched to Hunter in the double sculls. In the World Cup, the new boat came second twice and third once. At the World Championships in Munich, the two won the bronze medal, it was Hunter's first international medal in thirteen years. In the 2008 World Cup season, the two Brits dominated and won all three events. Also at the Olympic Games in 2008 the two managed a sure victory. After a year break, the two returned in 2010, after a World Cup victory in Munich and fifth place in Lucerne, the two won the World Championships in New Zealand . They successfully defended their title in Bled in 2011 . At the 2012 Olympic Games, the two Englishmen lost to the Danes Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist and received the silver medal.

Mark Hunter is a trained ferry master on the Thames.

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SURNAME Hunter, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunter, Mark John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest Gate