 Bennett at the 2016 European Rowing Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 16 December 1988 (age 35) Leeds, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | King's College London Kellogg College, Oxford | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 15 st 10 lb (100 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paul Bennett MBE (born 16 December 1988) is a British rower and Olympic gold medallist. [1]
Bennett won the Boat Race in 2013 sitting at five for Oxford.
He competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight with Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Matthew Tarrant, Will Satch, Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Tom Ransley, Constantine Louloudis and Phelan Hill. [2] The following year he was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight with Matt Gotrel, Louloudis, Reed, Moe Sbihi, Alex Gregory, George Nash, Satch and Hill. [3]
In 2016 he won a gold medal in the eight at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [4]
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to rowing. [5] [6]
From the age of about twelve until he was eighteen Bennett was educated at Roundhay School. Later he went on to graduate with a first class MSci in mathematics from King's College London in 2012, and completed an MSc in Computer Science at Kellogg College, Oxford in 2013. [7]
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