Matt Deakin

Matt Deakin
nation	United States
birthday	May 20, 1980
place of birth	San Francisco ,  United States
size	193 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
society	Washington Huskies
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2004 Athens Eighth  World championships gold 2003 Milan Foursome with gold 2005 Kaizu Eighth bronze 2006 Eton Eighth gold 2007 Munich Foursome with

Matt Deakin (born May 20, 1980 in San Francisco ) is a retired American rower .

Career

Deakin, son of the author Michele Sudduth and the administrative officer John Deakin and a graduate of the University of Washington , celebrated his first major success at the 2003 World Rowing Championships in Milan by winning the title in four-man with helmsman.

At his only Summer Olympics in Athens in 2004 , he won the gold medal in eighth together with Jason Read , Wyatt Allen , Christian Ahrens , Joseph Hansen , Daniel Beery , Beau Hoopman , Bryan Volpenhein and helmsman Pete Cipollone . In the lead-up, the boat set a new world record with a time of 5: 19.85 minutes. In the same year Beery won the rowing world cup in a foursome. In recognition of his success, Deakin was allowed to pitch the first pitch with his teammates of the Olympic Games at the major league baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Seattle Mariners on July 16, 2005 .

In the same year Beery won at the World Rowing Championships in Japan Kaizu along with his teammates the title in the eighth. The following year he sat in the rowing world championships in 2006 in Eton again in eighth and won bronze. Deakin celebrated his last big title at the rowing world championships 2007 in Munich with his third world championship title together with Daniel Beery, Samuel Burns , Christopher Liwski and helmsman Edmund Del Guercio in a four with helmsman.

Deakin was inducted into the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame as a member in 2010 .

Web links

• Matt Deakin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Matt Deakin on gohuskies.com (English)
• Matt Deakin at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Golden Moments: Four UW Alumni Are Olympics Medalists. UW Alumni, September 2004, archived from the original on March 22, 2005 ; accessed on January 12, 2015 . 
2. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M4 + at the 2003 World Rowing Championships. FISA , accessed on January 12, 2015 (English). 
3. ↑ Olympic gold medal rowers to deliver first pitch at Orioles — Mariners game, July 16. row2k News, July 15, 2005, accessed January 11, 2015 . 
4. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M8 + at the 2005 World Rowing Championships. FISA , accessed on January 12, 2015 (English). 
5. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M8 + at the 2006 World Rowing Championships. FISA , accessed on January 12, 2015 (English). 
6. ↑ worldrowing.com: Result of the final in the M4 + at the 2007 World Rowing Championships. FISA , accessed on January 12, 2015 (English). 
7. ↑ Husky Oarsman Matt Deakin Inducted Into National Rowing Hall Of Fame. In: pac-12.com. February 11, 2010, accessed January 12, 2015 .