Rory Gibbs

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NationalityBritish
Born (1994-04-03) 3 April 1994 (age 31)
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
CountryGreat Britain
Rory Gibbs
Gibbs at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1994-04-03) 3 April 1994 (age 31)
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
SportRowing
EventCoxless four
ClubOxford Brookes
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2024 ParisEight
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 RačiceEight
Gold medal – first place2023 BelgradeEight
Bronze medal – third place2019 OttensheimCoxless four
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 LucerneCoxless four
Gold medal – first place2021 VareseCoxless four
Gold medal – first place2022 OberschleißheimEight
Gold medal – first place2023 BledEight
Gold medal – first place2024 SzegedEight

Rory Gibbs (born 3 April 1994) is a British representative rower - an Olympic and a two-time world champion. He won the 2022 and 2023 world championship titles in the British men's eight.[1] Between 2016 and 2023 he rowed in victorious crews across six events at the Henley Royal Regatta.[2]

Gibbs took up rowing after picking up injuries playing rugby.[1] He was educated at Millfield School and Oxford Brookes university where he was a relative late starter in taking up rowing.[2]

Racing for Oxford Brookes, Gibbs enjoyed an incredible run of victories at the Henley Royal Regatta as he proceeded through his developmental stages - in 2016 a victory in the Temple Challenge Cup (for university eights); in 2017 & 2018 victory in the Ladies' Challenge Plate (for club and university eights below international standard); in 2019 the Stewards' Challenge Cup (for club and university coxless fours). In 2022, he won the Grand Challenge Cup (the blue riband event at Henley) in the bow of a composite Leander/Oxford Brookes crew.[2] In 2023 again in Oxford Brookes colours, he was at five in the Leander/Oxford Brookes eight for another Grand Challenge Cup victory.[3]

Representative career

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