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Full name | William Crothers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kingston, Ontario | June 14, 1987|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 195 cm (6 ft 5 in) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 95 kg (209 lb) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Will Crothers (born June 14, 1987) is a Canadian rower. He started rowing in grade 9 for KCVI, following his brother into the sport. [2] Within just a few years, Crothers and his rowing partner, Rob Gibson, were Canadian high school champions in the senior coxless pair in 2005. Additionally, Crothers was named Ontario Male Athlete of the Year in 2005. [3]
He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics [1] in the men's eight, just behind the German team, with Andrew Byrnes, Gabriel Bergen, Jeremiah Brown, Douglas Csima, Robert Gibson, Malcolm Howard, Conlin McCabe and Brian Price. [4]
In June 2016, he was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team. [5] The men's coxless four finished last in the A-final after making it through their heat and semifinal in good standing. [6]
Crothers competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [7] [8]
Brian Price has been the Canadian coxswain of the men's eight since 2001. He was born in Belleville, Ontario. Price began rowing on the National Team in 1998 after graduating from Seneca College with a Civil Engineering Technology diploma. The first national team crew that he made was the 1998 development lightweight eight. He made the move to the heavyweight men's team in 1999 and competed at the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg.
Lesley Allison Thompson-Willie is a Canadian rowing coxswain and Olympic champion. Between 1984 and 2016, she has competed at eight Olympic Games, a record for a rower, winning medals in five of them including gold in the eight at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
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