Rob Williams

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Rob Williams (* 21st January 1985 in Taplow ) is a British lightweight - rowers . He won one gold medal and two bronze medals at world championships by 2011.

Career

Williams began rowing in 2001. In 2006 he finished sixth at the U23 World Championships with the British lightweight four without a helmsman . At the 2007 World Championships in Munich he won the bronze medal in the lightweight quadruple scull together with Simon Jones , Chris Bartley and Dave Currie . After Williams could not qualify for the Olympic Games in 2008, he rowed together with Paul Mattick in the lightweight double scull in 2009 , at the 2009 World Championships in Poznan , the two achieved sixth place. In 2010 the two switched back to the lightweight foursome. 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 with the same crew received the bronze medal at the World Championships in Bled . 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.

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personal data
SURNAME Williams, Rob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Taplow