Jack Beaumont (rower)

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Jack Beaumont
Jack Beaumont after the Tokyo Olympics.jpg
Beaumont at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born (1993-11-21) 21 November 1993 (age 31)
Maidenhead, England
Sport
Sport Rowing
Club Maidenhead Rowing Club
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Quadruple sculls
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Sarasota Quadruple sculls
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Poznań Quadruple sculls
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Glasgow Double sculls
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Lucerne Quadruple sculls

Jack Beaumont (born 21 November 1993) is a retired British rower. He is the silver medallist at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Men's quadruple sculls. He also won a silver medal at the World Championships. [1]

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Career

Jack is the son of Olympic rower Peter Beaumont. [2]

Beaumont started competing as part of the GB Rowing Team at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Racice, where they finished fourth. In 2014, Beaumont was a World U23 bronze medallist in men's double scull. [1]

Beaumont was involved in an accident in 2015, which fractured several vertebrae. He missed being selected for the 2016 Summer Olympics, but days before the Games started, he was chosen to replace Graeme Thomas who had fallen ill. He competed in the men's quadruple sculls event, and finished in fifth place. [3] [4]

In 2017, he won a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, as part of the quadruple sculls with Jonathan Walton, John Collins and Graeme Thomas. [5]

At the 2020 Summer Olympics held in 2021 in Tokyo, Beaumont won a silver together with Harry Leask, Tom Barras and Angus Groom in the Men's quadruple sculls. [6] Beaumont retired from international rowing after the Olympic Games. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Jack Beaumont". British Rowing.
  2. "Jack Beaumont's rowing father so proud at his son's success". The Evening Standard. 28 July 2021.
  3. "Jack Beaumont". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Tokyo 2020 Silver Medallist Jack Beaumont retires from international rowing". British Rowing. 20 December 2021.
  5. "2017 World Championship" (PDF). 2017 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
  6. "Olympics 2020: Silver medal for Durham graduate Angus Groom in historic rowing win". ITV. 28 July 2021.