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Alan Sinclair (born 16 October 1985) is a retired British international rower. [1]
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Alan Sinclair (born 16 October 1985) is a retired British international rower. [1]
Sinclair is a member of the Leander Club. He was a member of the Scotland Team at the 2010 Commonwealth Rowing Championships, in Welland, Canada.
He competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a silver medal as part of the coxed pair with Scott Durant and Henry Fieldman. [2] The following year he competed in the 2015 European Rowing Championships in Poznań winning a gold medal. 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 bronze medal as part of the coxless four with Scott Durant, Tom Ransley and Stewart Innes. [3] He also competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 2016 Summer Olympics finishing fourth in the Final. [4]
He won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, as part of the eight with James Rudkin, Tom Ransley, Thomas George, Moe Sbihi, Oliver Wynne-Griffith, Matthew Tarrant, Will Satch and Henry Fieldman. [5]
In May 2021 he announced his retirement from international rowing. [6]
In June 2021, Sinclair was announced as Director of Rowing at the University of St Andrews. [7] [8]
Sinclair was the Match Director for the inaugural Home International Rowing Beach Sprints in August 2022. [9]
He was the winner of International Rower of the Year at the 2014 Scottish Rowing Annual Awards. [10]
Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave is a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.
Peter Moir Haining is a Scottish-born rower and three-time World Lightweight Sculling Champion who competed for Great Britain and England.
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Thomas Matthew Ransley is a retired British rower. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he was part of the British crew that won the gold medal in the eight, was twice a World Champion and in 2015 was the European Champion in the men's coxless four.
James Foad is an English rower. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he was part of the British crew that won the bronze medal in the men's eight. He was the 2015 European Champion in the men's pair, along with Matt Langridge.
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William Spencer Satch is a British rower and Olympic gold medallist.
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Scott David Durant is a British rower and gold medallist in the Men's Eight at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games.
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Stewart Innes is a retired British rower.
Matthew T Tarrant is a British rower.
Henry Fieldman is a British rowing coxswain. He has been twice a world champion and is a two-time Olympic medalist.
Thomas Ford is a British national representative rower. He is an Olympic and two-time world champion in the men's eight event.
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Thomas James Edric George is a British rower.
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