Oliver Cook

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Oliver Cook (born June 5, 1990 ) is a British rower . He was world champion in 2016 and European champion in 2019.

Career

Cook took fourth place in the four-man without a helmsman at the U23 World Championships in 2012 . At the European Championships in 2012 , he rowed the British eighth to fifth place. In 2013 he won the eighth rowing World Cup in Eton. At the 2013 World Championships he rowed with James Foad in two without a helmsman and finished in seventh place. In 2014 he started again in eighth at the European Championships in Belgrade , who won bronze behind the Germany eighth with Scott Durant , Oliver Cook, Philip Congdon , Matthew Gotrel , Peter Reed , William Satch , Matthew Tarrant , James Foad and helmsman Phelan Hill and the Russians. After that, he was no longer part of the British A-team and did not take part in the 2016 Olympic Games. At the 2016 World Championships in the non-Olympic boat classes, he won together with Callum McBrierty and helmsman Henry Fieldman in a two-man with helmsman .

Cook graduated from the London School of Economics and is a member of the University of London Boat Club . In 2017 he rowed together with his brother Jamie in the victorious eighth at Oxford in the Boat Race . At the 2017 World Championships he was also in eighth, but missed the final. In 2018, he and Matthew Rossiter 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.

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personal data
SURNAME Cook, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH June 5th 1990