Pete Reed
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27 July 1981 Seattle, Washington, United States |
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| Height | 198 cm (6.50 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Men's rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Oxford University Boat Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Leander Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Jürgen Gröbler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Reed OBE (born 27 July 1981) is a British Olympic rower. Reed is a three-times Olympic gold medallist - earning gold in the Men's coxless four at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and then a gold medal in the Men's eight at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He has won five gold medals and three silver medals at the World Championships.
Reed was born in Seattle, Washington, US but his family moved to Britain several months later. He was brought up in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire and attended Cirencester Deer Park School.
Reed is a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and began rowing relatively late. In 2001, whilst training as an officer on board HMS Exeter, he used an ergometer for the first time — and promptly posted the fastest time in the Royal Navy’s annual fleet-wide fitness competition.
Reed took up rowing in his second year of university in 2002, whilst studying mechanical engineering at the University of the West of England, to become a naval engineer. The following year, in 2003, coached by Fred Smallbone, he became a successful Boat Club President.
In 2004, Reed won a place at the University of Oxford to attend a two-year MSc course in engineering, based at Oriel College. During this time, he trained at the Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC) under coach Sean Bowden, where he earned the nickname "The Commander". He was selected in both years for the Blue Boat to race against Cambridge in the annual Boat Race. Defeat in 2004 was followed by victory in 2005. The race gained much publicity as Oxford narrowly won by 2 lengths in a time of 16 minutes 42 seconds with its "heaviest-ever Boat Race crew", a record which was later broken in 2009.
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