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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 January 2000 [1] [2] Tower Hamlets, London, England [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Men's double sculls, Men’s quadruple sculls | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Twickenham Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Callum Dixon OLY (born 22 January 2000) is a British rower. He competed for Great Britain in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a good medal in the same discipline at the 2025 European Rowing Championships.
Born and raised in Tower Hamlets, [3] Dixon has severe dyslexia which means he can only read about 25 words on a good day. [4]
After a short stint in mainstream education, he was home-schooled alongside his three siblings and has no GCSE or A-Level qualifications, although, with help from his mother, he achieved a psychology degree from the Open University. [4]
From a young age he took part in a variety of sports including tennis, climbing and swimming but found his main passion was sailing. [3]
Dixon joined the British sailing team in 2016 competing in the Finn class and progressed through the age-group categories to compete on the World Cup circuit, [5] but when it was dropped from the Olympic programme he decided to change sports to pursue his ambition of being an Olympian. [3] [4]
At the suggestion of Olympic sailing champion Giles Scott, whose brother Nick was British Rowing head of performance at the time, Dixon turned his hand to rowing. [3] [4]
He made it onto the British rowing squad, winning a gold medal at the 2021 European Rowing Under-23s in Poland in the men's double sculls with Nathan Hull. [6] [7]
Dixon made his Rowing World Cup debut in 2022 [4] and was in the men's quadruple sculls boat which finished fourth at the 2023 European Rowing Championships in Slovenia, [8] and the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Serbia [9] [10] although the disappointment on missing out on a medal at the latter was tempered by the fact their performance was good enough to gain qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [11]
It was fourth again for Dixon and his men's quadruple sculls teammates at the 2024 European Rowing Championships in Hungary. [12]
In June 2024, Dixon was named in the Great Britain rowing team for that year's Summer Olympics in Paris as part of the men's quadruple sculls squad. [13] [14] [15] At the Games, the crew finished second in their heat to secure a place in the final [16] [17] where they came fourth. [18]
In June 2025, Dixon was a member of the first Great Britain crew to take the gold medal in the men's quadruple sculls at the European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. [19]
