Alex Partridge

Alex Partridge

Personal information
Birth name	Alex Partridge
Nationality	British
Born	(1981-01-25) 25 January 1981 (age 36) San Francisco, California, United States
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight	14.5 st (92 kg)
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Men's rowing
Event(s)	Coxless Four, Eight
College team	Oxford Brookes University Boat Club
Club	Leander Club
Coached by	Jürgen Gröbler
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Eight 2012 London Eight World Rowing Championships 2005 Gifu Coxless Four 2006 Eton Coxless Four 2009 Poznań Coxless Four 2011 Bled Eight 2001 Lucerne Coxed Four 2003 Milan Eight

Alex Partridge (born 25 January 1981 in San Francisco) is a British rower, and an Olympic silver and bronze medallist.

Partridge started rowing at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and attended Oxford Brookes University to study Technology Management. Double Olympic champion Steve Williams, with whom Partridge won two world titles attended both the same school, and the same university, as did Rowley Douglas – cox of the British Rowing 8 at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

Partridge first made his mark at senior level in 2001. Having won a silver medal in the four at the World U23 Championships with Christopher Martin, Henry Adams and Dan Ouseley, the crew met the standard to gain selection for the coxed four at the senior World Championships in Lucerne. Having reached the final, they proved to be particularly strong in the final 500 m, rowing through the field to snatch the bronze medal on the line.

In 2002 and 2003 Alex raced in the Eight; the crew finished 6th at the World Championships, but stepped up in 2003 to win a bronze medal.

In 2004, Partridge won the GB Rowing Senior Selection Trials in the pair with Andrew Triggs Hodge. This proved a headache for the selecters who had already shuffled the previous year's crews considerably, in the wake of Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell's disappointing 4th place in the pair in Milan. Until the trials Pinsent and Cracknell had been training in a four with Steve Williams and Josh West, but following the unexpected trials result replaced West with Partridge. Hodge remained in the Eight. However, following the World Cup in Lucerne, Partridge was diagnosed with a collapsed lung and had to withdraw from the Athens Olympics; he was replaced in the coxless four by Ed Coode, and the crew went on to win the Olympic final beating the Canadian 4- by just 0.08 seconds. Patridge, however, was first across the line; the crew had named their boat after him.

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