Sholto Carnegie

Sholto Carnegie (born 28 February 1995) is a British

Sholto Carnegie
representative rower.[2] He is an Olympic and a two-
time world champion in the Great Britain men's eight. Personal information
Nationality British
Born 28 February 1995
University and club rowing London, England[1]

Raised in Oxford and educated at Cherwell School, Height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)

Carnegie took up rowing aged 13 at the City of Oxford Sport
Rowing Club.[2] Ahead of the Henley Royal Regatta of Country Great Britain
2013 Carnegie made a switch from the City of Oxford Sport Rowing
RC to the Marlow Rowing Club with whom he won
Event Mens Eight
the Fawley Challenge Cup that year.[3][4] By 2014 he
had moved again to the Leander Club and at Henley in Club Leander Club
2014 he won the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup in a Medal record
Leander quad scull.[4] Men's rowing

Carnegie attended Yale University from 2014 to 2018 Representing Great Britain
where he qualified for a B. Economics. At Yale he Olympic Games
participated in their senior rowing program and rowed 2024 Paris Eight
in senior Yale boats in all three racing seasons of his World Championships
tenure including a seat in the Yale first VIII which won 2022 Račice Eight
a national championship in 2016-17.[4]
2023 Belgrade Eight
Back in England his club rowing has continued from 2019 Ottensheim Coxless four
Leander. In 2022, he won the Grand Challenge Cup European Championships
(the blue riband event at the Henley Royal Regatta) in
2019 Lucerne Coxless four
the four seat of a composite Leander/Oxford Brookes
2021 Varese Coxless four
crew. In 2023 again in Leander Club colours, he was at
four in the Leander/Oxford Brookes eight for another 2022 Oberschleißheim Eight

Grand Challenge Cup victory.[5] 2023 Bled Eight

2024 Szeged Eight

Representative career
Carnegie was first selected to representative honours as a sculler, racing for Great Britain at the 2013
Junior World Rowing Championships in a double scull to a fifth placing.[6] He was selected for the 2014
U23 World Rowing Championships in a quad scull which finished in overall 13th place.[6] By 2016
Carnegie had moved into sweep oared boats and he won silver medals at the U23 World Championships
of 2016 (in the 8+) and 2017 (in the 4-).[6]
2018 saw Carnegie move in the GB senior squad but he made only one representative appearance in the
2018 European racing season in a 4- which finished fourth at World Rowing Cup III.[6] 2019 was more
successful for Carnegie. He won a gold medal in the coxless four at the 2019 European Rowing
Championships with Oliver Cook, Matthew Rossiter and Rory Gibbs[7] then that same crew won a bronze
medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships.[8][7]

That crew of Carnegie, Cook, Rossiter and Gibbs stayed together throughout the Covid lost season of
2020 whilst knowing their 2019 performances had qualified the boat for the eventual 2020 Tokyo
Olympics. In 2021, they won a second European gold medal as a 4- in Varese, Italy,[9] then took gold at
the World Rowing Cup II. At the Tokyo Olympic regatta they won their heat, comfortably beating the
eventual bronze medallists Italy. In the Olympic final they were in medal contention at each mark but
were run down by the Italians in the last 500m and finished in fourth place.[6]

2022 saw Carnegie selected to the four seat of the Great Britain senior men's eight. In that international
season the eight won gold at two World Rowing Cups and at the 2022 European Rowing
Championships.[10] Carnegie in the British eight went on to win gold and a world championship title at
the 2022 World Rowing Championships in Račice. In 2023 Carnegie won a second successive world
championship in the men's eight at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade.[11]

He won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain eight at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[12]

References
1. "Sholto Carnegie" (https://web.archive.org/web/20210725095049/https://olympics.com/tokyo
-2020/olympic-games/en/results/rowing/athlete-profile-n1444669-carnegie-sholto.htm).
Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Archived from the original (https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/rowin
g/athlete-profile-n1444669-carnegie-sholto.htm) on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
2. "Profile" (https://www.britishrowing.org/athlete/sholto-carnegie/). British Rowing. Retrieved
4 July 2023.
3. Fawley win 2013 (https://juniorrowingnews.com/hrr-reaction-and-review-the-fawley-challeng
e-cup/)
4. Carnegie at Yale (https://yalebulldogs.com/sports/mens-crew/roster/sholto-carnegie/1036)
5. "Leander, Oxford Brookes and Thames dominate at Henley Royal Regatta" (https://www.briti
shrowing.org/2023/07/leander-oxford-brookes-and-thames-dominate-at-henley-royal-regatt
a/). British Rowing. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
6. Carnegie at World Rowing (https://worldrowing.com/athlete/sholto-carnegie?id=44680)
7. "European Rowing Championships: Great Britain men's four win gold in Lucerne" (https://w
ww.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/48491456). BBC Sport. BBC. 2 June 2019. Retrieved 6 June
2019.
8. "World Rowing Championships: Two gold & two bronze medals for Great Britain" (https://ww
w.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/49537034). BBC Sport. 31 August 2019.
9. "Men's Four Final A (Final)" (https://worldrowing.com/event/2021-european-rowing-champio
nships/). World Rowing. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
10. "European Championships Munich 2022: GB win four rowing gold medals" (https://www.bbc.
com/sport/rowing/62532590). BBC. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
11. "Catch-up: World Rowing Championships Finals: GB wins Gold in Men's Eight" (https://ww
w.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/rowing/66659461). BBC Sport. 9 September 2023. Retrieved
18 September 2023.
12. "Britain's men win gold and women bronze in eights" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/
articles/cek9ke3d0x0o). BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 August 2024.

External links
Sholto Carnegie (https://worldrowing.com/athlete/44680) at World Rowing
Sholto Carnegie (https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/sholto-carnegie) at Olympics.com
Sholto Carnegie (https://www.teamgb.com/athletes/4y6Fd2mp1pQSsHXhgRr0m0) at Team
GB
Sholto Carnegie (https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/143182) at Olympedia

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