Harry Brightmore
Harry Brightmore (born 1 July 1994) is a British
Harry Brightmore
rowing coxswain.[1] He is an Olympic and two-time
world champion. Personal information
Nationality British
Born 1 July 1994
Junior and varsity rowing Sport
Brightmore attended King's School, Chester where he Country Great Britain
took up coxing in 2008. He studied at Oxford Brookes Sport Rowing
University senior club rowing has been from the
Event Coxswain/Eights
Oxford Brookes University Boat Club.
Club Oxford Brookes University Boat
In 2023, he won the Grand Challenge Cup (the blue Club
riband event at the Henley Royal Regatta) for the Medal record
second time, in the stern of an Oxford Brookes / Men's rowing
Leander composite men's senior eight.[2] His 2021
Representing Great Britain
victory in the same event was in an all Oxford Brookes
crew. Olympic Games
2024 Paris Eight
World Championships
International representative 2022 Račice Eight
career 2023 Belgrade Eight
European Championships
Brightmore made his international representative debut 2022 Oberschleißheim Eight
for Great Britain in a coxed four which rowed to an
2024 Szeged Eight
overall fourth placing at the 2014 U23 World Rowing
Championships.[3] In 2015 and 2016 he coxed the
British U23 men's eight at those years' U23 World Championships.[3] His first senior national
representative appearance was under the canvas of the GB men's coxed pair at the 2017 World Rowing
Championships.[3]
It was 2022 when Brightmore took hold of the rudder ropes in the GB men's senior eight and that same
year he became a world champion when that crew won the eights title at the 2022 World Rowing
Championships. He had earlier won gold that season at the 2022 European Rowing Championships.[4]
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, he won a second World Championship gold
medal in the men's eight.[5]
He won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain eight at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[6]
References
1. "Profile" (https://www.britishrowing.org/athlete/harry-brightmore/). British Rowing. Retrieved
4 July 2023.
2. "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.
3. Brightmore at World Rowing (https://worldrowing.com/athlete/harry-brightmore?id=45656)
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. "Britain's men win gold and women bronze in eights" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/
articles/cek9ke3d0x0o). BBC Sport. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
External links
Harry Brightmore (https://worldrowing.com/athlete/45656) at World Rowing
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