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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 July 1994 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Coxswain/Eights | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Oxford Brookes University Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Harry Brightmore (born 1 July 1994) is a British rowing coxswain [1] and a two-time world champion.
Brightmore attended King's School, Chester where he took up coxing in 2008. He studied at Oxford Brookes University senior club rowing has been from the Oxford Brookes University Boat Club.
In 2023, he won the Grand Challenge Cup (the blue riband event at the Henley Royal Regatta) for the second time, in the stern of an Oxford Brookes / Leander composite men's senior eight. [2] His 2021 victory in the same event was in an all Oxford Brookes crew.
Brightmore made his international representative debut for Great Britain in a coxed four which rowed to an overall fourth placing at the 2014 U23 World Rowing Championships. [3] In 2015 and 2016 he coxed the British U23 men's eight at those years' U23 World Championships. [3] His first senior national representative appearance was under the canvas of the GB men's coxed pair at the 2017 World Rowing Championships. [3]
It was 2022 when Brightmore took hold of the rudder ropes in the GB men's senior eight and that same year he became a world champion when that crew won the eights title at the 2022 World Rowing Championships. He had earlier won gold that season at the 2022 European Rowing Championships. [4]
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, he won a second World Championship gold medal in the men's eight. [5]
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