Tom Ransley

Tom Ransley at the post-Olympic parade in 2012

Thomas Matthew "Tom" Ransley , MBE (born September 6, 1985 in Ashford , Kent ) is a British rower . Ransley was world champion in 2013 and 2014 and Olympic champion in 2016 with the British eighth .

Career

Ransley finished fifth at the European Rowing Championships in 2007 with the British eighth . In 2009 Ransley started again in the British eighth, who achieved two third places and a fourth place in the World Cup and finished fifth at the 2009 World Rowing Championships . In 2010, two years before the Olympic Games in London, the British eighth came into the public eye with the comeback of the now 38-year-old 1992 Olympic champion Gregory Searle . At the 2010 World Rowing Championships , the British won the silver medal behind the Germany eighth . The following year, the British again received silver behind the Germans. In the Olympic year 2012, the eighth place in Germany remained unbeatable for the British, with two second places and a third place in the World Cup, followed by third place in the Olympic regatta behind the Germans and the Canadians.

In 2013, the British ended the German winning streak since 2009. The British eighth won the World Cup regattas in Sydney and Eton, but only finished fourth in Lucerne. At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, the British won ahead of the Germans. Before the 2014 season, four members of the 2013 World Champion eight formed the new British four without a helmsman. During the season experiments were carried out with the new line-up of the eight, so Ransley was absent from the European Championships, but ultimately four members of the previous eight were in the boat at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam and defended the title. At the European Championships in 2015 , Ransley competed with a newly assembled four-man without a helmsman: Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell , Alan Sinclair , Tom Ransley and Scott Durant won the title ahead of the Greek four-man. At the 2015 World Championships , Durant, Sinclair, Ransley and Stewart Innes finished third behind the four-men from Italy and Australia. At the start of the 2016 season, Ransley finished third with the British eighth behind the Germans and Russians 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.

Ransley remained a member of the British eight even after the 2016 Olympics. In 2017, the eighth finished fifth at the European Championships and seventh at the World Championships . After finishing fifth at the 2018 European Championships , the British won bronze at the 2018 World Championships behind the Germans and Australians.

Web links

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