Matthew Rossiter

Matthew "Matt" Rossiter (born September 25, 1989 ) is a British rower . He won two bronze medals at world championships and was European champion in the four without a helmsman in 2019 .

Career

Rossiter started rowing in 2004. In 2007 he won the Junior World Championships with the British four-man without a helmsman . In 2008 he finished fifth at the U23 World Championships with eighth and in 2009 he won bronze. In 2010 he competed in a four without a helmsman and won a silver medal with Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell , George Nash and Constantine Louloudis . While the other three were moving up to the UK national team, Rossiter suffered a serious back injury in 2011 and was a patient for the next two years.

In 2016 Rossiter was again active in competitive sports as a member of the Leander Club and in 2017 he moved to the national team. Together with Jacob Dawson , Rossiter won in two without a helmsman at the 2017 World Cup kick-off in Belgrade. The two finished fifth at the 2017 European Championships . Then Rossiter switched to the foursome and together with Mohamed Sbihi , Matthew Tarrant and William Satch finished second at the World Cup in Posen behind the Australian boat, and the British won the last World Cup regatta in Lucerne. At the 2017 World Championships in Sarasota, the Australians won ahead of the Italians, followed by Rossiter, Sbihi, Tarrant and Satch the bronze medals. In 2018, he and Oliver Cook finished fifth in a two-man race at the World Cup regattas in Linz and Lucerne. At the European Championships in Glasgow , the two finished seventh, in Plovdiv at the 2018 World Championships , the two rowed to eighth place.

In 2019 Cook and Rossiter switched to the four without a helmsman. Together with Rory Gibbs and Sholto Carnegie, they won the European Championships in Lucerne, ahead of the Poles and the Germans. In the World Cup, the British took fourth place in Poznan and second in Rotterdam. At the end of August at the World Championships in Linz, the Poles won ahead of the Romanians, behind them the British rowed the bronze medal.

Web links

• Matthew Rossiter at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Portrait at britishrowing.org (accessed August 31, 2019)