Richard Chambers

Richard Chambers 2012 (1st from left)

Richard Chambers (* 10. June 1985 in Belfast ) is a British lightweight - rowers . He won two gold medals and one bronze medal at world championships by 2011.

Career

Chambers began rowing as a child in Coleraine , and went to Oxford Brookes University in England to study . In 2005 he won his first international medal when he finished second at the U23 World Championships with the lightweight quadruple scull. In 2006 he won the lightweight two-man without helmsman together with Chris Bartley at the U23 World Championships, and at the 2006 World Rowing Championships , the two took sixth place. In 2007 Chambers switched to the lightweight four without a helmsman , the only Olympic lightweight boat class in oar rowing . Together with James Lindsay-Fynn , Paul Mattick and James Clarke , he won the World Cup regatta in Lucerne and the title at the World Championships in Munich . At the Olympic Games in Beijing , the British four-man finished fifth in the same line-up as last year.

After a year without an international start, Chambers returned to the foursome in 2010. In the line-up of Richard Chambers, Paul Mattick, Rob Williams and Chris Bartley, the boat won a second place in the World Cup in Bled and two victories in Munich and Lucerne and also won the World Championships in New Zealand . A year later, the boat won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Bled with the same crew . In the line-up of Peter Chambers , Rob Williams, Richard Chambers and Chris Bartley, the British four-man 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 Peter won the title in the lightweight double without a helmsman, Richard Chambers and William Fletcher took second place in the lightweight double scull. Richard Chambers and William Fletcher also won the silver medal in the lightweight double scull at the 2015 World Championships . Chambers and Fletcher finished seventh at the 2016 Olympics .

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

• Richard Chambers at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Richard Chambers in the Sports-Reference database (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)