Alan Sinclair (rower)
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Born | 16 October 1985 Inverness, Scotland | (age 36)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alan Sinclair (born 16 October 1985) is a retired British international rower.[1]
Rowing career[]
Sinclair is a member of the Leander Club. He was a member of the Scotland Team at the 2010 Commonwealth Rowing Championships, in Welland, Canada.
He competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a silver medal as part of the coxed pair with Scott Durant and Henry Fieldman.[2] The following year he competed in the 2015 European Rowing Championships in Poznań winning a gold medal. He was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, where he won a bronze medal as part of the coxless four with Scott Durant, Tom Ransley and Stewart Innes.[3] He also competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 2016 Summer Olympics finishing fourth in the Final.[4]
He won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, as part of the eight with James Rudkin, Tom Ransley, Thomas George, Moe Sbihi, Oliver Wynne-Griffith, Matthew Tarrant, Will Satch and Henry Fieldman.[5]
In May 2021 he announced his retirement from international rowing.[6]
Awards[]
He was the winner of International Rower of the Year at the 2014 Scottish Rowing Annual Awards.[7]
References[]
- ^ "GB Rowing Team Biography". British Rowing. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ "2014 World Rowing Championships: Event Information". WorldRowing.com. International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ "2015 World Rowing Championships results". World Rowing.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alan Sinclair". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020.
- ^ "2018 World Championship results" (PDF). World Rowing.
- ^ "Olympian Alan Sinclair announces his retirement from international rowing". British Rowing. 6 May 2021.
- ^ "Scottish Rowing Awards 2014". Scottish Rowing. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
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