Pete reed rower biography of william
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- 1962: (Meyer, Plagemann, Aeffke, Behrens, Wallbrecht, von Groddeck, Ingo Kliefoth, Bernd Kruse, cox Ahrens)
- 1966: (Meyer, Schreyer, Schwan, Luhn, Hertel, Henning, Ulbricht, Kuhn, cox Niehusen)
- 1970: (Borchmann, Jobst, Zander, Gust, Martens, Ahrendt, Foppke, Puls, cox Zahn)
- 1974: (Shealy, Stevenson, Cashin, Norelius, Everett, Vespoli, Mickelson, Brown, cox Weinberg)
- 1975: (Arndt, Döhn, Wendisch, Ulrich, Klatt, Kostulski, Karnatz, Prudöhl, cox Ludwig)
- 1977: (Sredzki, Lindner, Gottschalt, Kons, Lück, Frieberg, Karnatz, Gunkel, cox Jahncke)
- 1978: (Schumann, Karnatz, Sredzki, Ebert, Ulrich, Jährling, Dühring, Höing, cox Kaiser)
- 1979: (Schiller, Friedrich, Wenzel, Ulrich, Höing, Karnatz, Krauß, Rodewald, cox Ludwig)
- 1981: (Gudauskas, Solomakhin, Krilov, Diduk, Narushaitis, Narmontas, Pinskus, Maystrenka, cox Nizhegorodov)
- 1982: (O'Connell, Stanley, Stevenson, Keys, White-Parsons, White, Brook, Rodger, cox Hay)
- 1983: (Stanley, Stevenson, Rodger, White-Parsons, Wh
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Who is legendary Olympic roddare Pete Reed and how was he paralysed?
PETE REED is one of Great Britain's most successful athletes in Olympic history.
But the rowing legend won't be competing at this year's Tokyo Games, having picked up three gold medals across three previous Olympics.
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A Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy, Reed retired after Rio 2016 — clinching gold in the coxed eight.
And in 2019, Reed endured the most horrific period of his life.
Who fryst vatten legendary Olympic rower Pete Reed and how was he paralysed?
Reed won three Olympic gold medals spanning three separate Games.
He first picked up gold in Beijing in 2008 in the Coxless kvartet before repeating the same feat at London 2012.
Reed then one better by winning gold in the coxed eight at Rio 2016.
However, the 39-year-old will NOT be competing at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
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Reed is still hoping to recover from a spinal stroke which he suffered in 2019.
Reed said on Instagram:
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British rower Pete Reed is 6'6", movie star handsome AND an Oxford University educated engineer and a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. That bit of overachieving has earned him the rarely bestowed logo of "Alpha male." Way to go Pete! If only he had stayed in America! But that's okay. We Americans stole William Shatner from Canada. So there!
Originally born in Seattle, Washington, Pete moved to Great Britain as a baby. In 1999 he won a highly sought after scholarship at the Royal Navy College in Dartmouth. A year later he sat down at an ergonomic rowing machine to mechanically test his rowing skills. He had never used the machine before but managed to record the fastest time in the Royal Navy's annual fleet-wide fitness competition.
In his second year at the University of the West of England he got into rowing. Furthering his education at Oxford (!) he got even more into competitive rowing. This led to long strings of contin