Richard Budgett

Richard Gordon McBride Budgett , OBE (born March 20, 1959 in Glasgow ) is a retired British rower who became Olympic champion in 1984. After his career, he became a sports medicine specialist.

Career

Richard Budgett won in 1981 with the British eighth at the Match des Seniors, the forerunner of the U23 World Championships . In the same year he competed with Thomas Cadoux-Hudson and helmsman Adrian Ellison in two with helmsman at the 1981 World Championships in Munich and won the bronze medal behind the boats from Italy and the GDR. In the following year, the three rowers rowed at the 1982 World Championships in Lucerne together with Geraint Fuller and Stephen King in a four-man with helmsman and finished fifth, almost three seconds behind the third-placed boat from the United States. At the 1983 World Championships in Duisburg, the British four-man with helmsman in the line-up of Ian McNuff , John Beattie , Martin Cross , Richard Budgett and helmsman Alan Sherman took sixth place.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the GDR, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, whose foursome were ahead of the British at the 1983 World Championships, were missing because of the Olympic boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries. The 1983 world champions from New Zealand and fourth place in the world championship from the Federal Republic of Germany took part. With the New Zealanders, however, only helmsman Brett Hollister from the world championship boat was left. For the British, Cross and Budgett from last year's four were in the boat, Adrian Ellison had returned from eight and then came Andrew Holmes and Steven Redgrave . The British won their pre-run ahead of the boat from the United States and the New Zealanders and, like the winning boat from the other pre-run from Italy, qualified directly for the final. The boats from New Zealand, the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany and Canada reached the finals via the repechage race. In the final, the British won by one and a half seconds ahead of the boat from the United States and New Zealand.

In contrast to his teammates from the gold four, the two-meter man Budgett ended his sporting career after the Olympic victory in 1984. The doctor trained at the University of Cambridge worked in 1989 at the British Olympic Medical Center. From 1994 he was chairman of the medical committee of the British Olympic Association . From 1996 to 2006 he was head of medical care for the British Olympic team at three Summer Olympic Games and three Winter Olympic Games. In 2003 he became Officer of the Order of the British Empire and has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians since 2011 .

Web links

• Richard Budgett in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Richard Budgett at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1017
2. ↑ Biography at the European College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (accessed on September 9, 2019)
3. ↑ Biography at University College London Hospitals (accessed September 9, 2019)