Acer Nethercott
Acer Nethercott Gary ( born November 28, 1977 in Newmarket, † 26 January 2013) was a British coxswain in rowing. He won with the British men's eight an Olympic silver medal in Beijing in 2008 and a bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in 2007 and twice the Boat Race with the team of Oxford University Boat Club.
Life
Acer Nethercott was born in Newmarket in England and grew up in Hertfordshire. From 1996 he studied at University College, University of Oxford physics and philosophy. He also earned academic degrees Bphil and DPhil in the research field of philosophy of language. Later he worked for the Boston Consulting Group.
In 2010, a malignant brain tumor ( glioblastoma ) was diagnosed with a break in his rowing career, which was treated with surgery and chemotherapy. Nethercott died on January 26, 2013 at the age of 35 years.
Career as a coxswain
Boat Race
Acer Nethercott began rowing at the start of the study in Oxford. But soon it was clear that he would be more successful with his body height as helmsman as rowers. In 2000, he headed the Women 's Boat Race crew of the Oxford University Women 's Boat Club to victory over the aft of Cambridge. For men, he could control the second Oxford team ( "Isis" ) in the race of substitutes to victory over the second crew from Cambridge ( " Goldie " ) in 2002.
In 2003 he came first in the first team of Oxford ( "Dark Blues" ) at the Boat Race used. Oxford Nethercott won at that time with the scarcest distance in the history of the race of only 30 centimeters at a race distance of 6.8 kilometers. The following year, Nethercott was able to qualify again for the Dark Blues team. During the Boat Race 2004, there were two accidents in which his team was greatly hindered. Cambridge won by six boat lengths, an objection Nethercotts after the race at the competition judges had no consequences. 2005 Nethercott was again able to win in a squat with many international Spitzenruderern Boat Race.
At the Boat Race in 2013 about two months after the death Nethercotts the rowing boat crew from Oxford in his name.
British national
Through his success at the prestigious Boat Race, the British rowing team became aware of Nethercott. From 2005 to 2008 he drove without stopping the British men's eight at the international rowing regattas. He won the Olympic silver medal in Beijing in 2008 and a bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in 2007. According to the Beijing Games, he interrupted his career initially for one year. During this time his cancer was diagnosed and treated. In 2012, he wanted to qualify as helmsman of the men's rowing eight for the Summer Olympic Games in London. He could no longer control sufficiently precise by the cancer treatment but due to a visual impairment and therefore was not nominated.
Achievements
- Olympic rowing regatta in Beijing in 2008, silver medal in the men's eight at the helm
- World Rowing Championships 2007 in Munich, bronze medal in the men's eight at the helm
- World Rowing Championships in 2006 in Eton, 5th place in the men's eight at the helm
- World Rowing Championships 2005 in Gifu, 4th place in the men's eight at the helm
- Rowing World Cup, five podium finishes in scoring races between 2005 and 2008 with the British men's eight at the helm
- Victories at the Boat Race with the aft of the Oxford University Boat Club in 2003 and 2005