Thomas George (rower)
British rower (born 1994)
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Thomas James Edric George (born 22 September 1994) is a British rower.
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| Full name | Thomas James Edric George | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 September 1994 Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Eight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Leander Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
George won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, as part of the eight with James Rudkin, Alan Sinclair, Tom Ransley, Moe Sbihi, Oliver Wynne-Griffith, Matthew Tarrant, Will Satch and Henry Fieldman.[1] He won a silver medal in the eight at the 2019 European Rowing Championships.[2] He won another bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria as part of the eight with Rudkin, Josh Bugajski, Sbihi, Jacob Dawson, Wynne-Griffith, Tarrant, Thomas Ford and Fieldman.[3]
In 2021, he won a European gold medal in the eight in Varese, Italy.[4][5]
He was in the six seat of the Cambridge boat in the 2022 Boat Race.[6]
He switched to the coxless pair, where he teamed up with Oliver Wynne-Griffith and in 2022, won a bronze medal and a silver medal, at the 2022 World and European Championships respectively. The following year in 2023, he repeated the silver success at the 2023 European Rowing Championships and then followed this up with another silver at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, behind the same Swiss pair.[7]
He also holds the world record over the 5 kilometer distance on a rowing machine, with a time of 14.53.9.[8]
