Peter Chambers

Vice European Champion 2016 from left to right: Chambers, Clegg, Aldred, Bartley

Peter Chambers (* 14. March 1990 in Ballymoney , Northern Ireland ) is a British lightweight - rowers . In 2011 he won the world title in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman.

Career

Chambers began rowing as a child in Coleraine , and went to Oxford Brookes University in England to study . In 2009 he won the bronze medal in the lightweight quadruple scull at the U23 World Championships , in 2010 he won silver in the lightweight single , and Chambers finished sixth in the single at the world championships in the adult class. In 2011 Chambers won together with Kieren Emery the title in the lightweight two-man without helmsman at both the U23 World Championships and the World Championships in Bled . In 2012, Peter Chambers switched to the lightweight four without a helmsman , with the cast of Peter Chambers, Rob Williams , Richard Chambers and Chris Bartley , the British four won the 2012 World Cup finals in Munich. In the final of the 2012 Olympic Regatta, the British foursome was defeated by the South African boat and won silver with seven hundredths of a second ahead of the Danes.

At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju , he and his brother won the bronze medal in the lightweight double sculls. In 2014, the brothers switched back to the foursome, they rowed the silver medal at the European championships and the bronze medal at the world championships . At the 2015 European Championships in Poznan , the Chambers brothers competed in two different boats, while Richard won silver in the lightweight double scull, Peter Chambers won the lightweight double with Joel Cassells in the lightweight double without a helmsman. At the start of the 2016 season, the British lightweight four-man with Chris Bartley, Mark Aldred , Jono Clegg and Peter Chambers won the silver medal at the European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel . Three months later, the four finished seventh at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

After the lightweight foursome lost its status as an Olympic boat class in 2017, Chambers switched to the scull area. At the 2017 World Championships he won the silver medal in the non-Olympic lightweight quadruple sculls with Edward Fisher , Zak Lee-Green , Gavin Horsburgh . Previously, he had not been able to convince with Will Fletcher in the Olympic lightweight double scull with 6th place at the European Championships .

Richard and Peter Chambers were the first pair of brothers in a British Olympic boat since Gregory and Jonathan Searle in 1996 at the 2012 Olympics .

Web links

• Peter Chambers at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Peter Chambers in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Report about the brothers Richard and Peter Chambers on The Telegraph (English, report from March 8, 2012, accessed on July 22, 2012)