Peter Reed

Peter Reed , OBE (born July 27, 1981 in Seattle ) is a former British rower who won two Olympic gold medals in the four without a helmsman and one in the eight .

Career

Born in the United States, Reed grew up in Nailsworth , Gloucestershire . After school he enlisted in the Royal Navy , where he was promoted to lieutenant. During his officer training, Reed made his first ergometer test in 2001 and rowed the fastest time of the year in the entire Navy. This is how he found rowing in the first place, which he continued to practice during his engineering training at the University of the West of England . During his master's degree in Oxford, he took part in the Boat Race in 2004 and 2005 , and in 2005 he was part of the winning team.

Also in 2005 Reed took part in the eliminations of the British national rowing team together with Andrew Triggs Hodge and won this race, Reed and Triggs Hodge repeated this victory in the years 2006 to 2008. The British head coach Jürgen Gröbler put Reed and Triggs Hodge together with Alex Partridge and Steve Williams in the new British foursome without, the flagship of the British Rowing Association. The four-man remained unbeaten in 27 races from 2005 to the 2007 World Cup in Lucerne, winning all World Cup races and the world championship titles in 2005 and 2006 for two years . After finishing fourth at the 2007 World Rowing Championships , Partridge was replaced by Tom James for the Olympic season. The boat was only able to compete together with the new line-up for the first time at the World Cup in Poznań after injury problems and took second place there. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, the four-man fought an exciting battle with the Australians and just about won the gold medal in the end.

Over the next three years, Reed and Triggs Hodge started in twos without a helmsman and won silver at the 2009 , 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships behind New Zealanders Hamish Bond and Eric Murray . In 2012, the two returned to the four without: At the 2012 Olympic Games , the four with Alex Gregory , Peter Reed, Tom James and Andrew Triggs Hodge won the gold medal.

From 2013 he sat in the British eight . At the rowing world championships in Chungju , South Korea , they won gold and thus defeated the Germany eighth . He had always won the world championship from 2009 to 2011 and was also Olympic champion in 2012. In 2014 Reed was able to defend the title with the British eighth. In 2015 Reed won the silver medal at the European Championships and the gold medal at the World Championships with the British eighth . At the start of the 2016 season, Reed finished third behind the Germans and Russians with the British eighth at the European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel. In the final of the 2016 Olympic Games , as in the three world championships since 2013, the British managed to win ahead of Germany eighth. He ended his athletic career in 2018, but Reed had not been used internationally since the Olympic Games.

In September 2019, Reed suffered a spinal cord attack that left him paralyzed from the chest down.

Web links

• Peter Reed at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Peter Reed in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Brief portrait on olympics.org.uk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pete Reed: Triple Olympic rowing gold medallist paralyzed after spinal stroke. In: www.bbc.com. BBC , October 30, 2019, accessed November 27, 2019 .