Andrew Triggs Hodge

Andrew Triggs Hodge MBE ( born March 3, 1979 in Halton in Aylesbury ) is a British rower who won the 2008 and 2012 Olympic gold in the coxless four.

Triggs Hodge attended school in Burnsall and later in Threshfield and was active as a cyclist. For rowing he found at Staffordshire University, his Master's degree he completed in Oxford. In 2005, he sat for Oxford in the Boat Race winning boat.

Triggs Hodge in 2002 took part in the first World Rowing Championships, finishing with the British Eighth sixth place. The following year he won the World Cup Bronze Boot. At the Olympic Games 2004, the British Eighth missed the A-final and finished at the end of the ninth.

After winning the Boat Race 2005 Triggs Hodge mahm part with his Oxford teammate Peter Reed at the qualifying heats of the British rowing team and won this race, Reed and Triggs Hodge repeated this victory in the years 2006 to 2008., The British head coach Jürgen Groebler sat Reed and Triggs Hodge and Alex Partridge and Steve Williams in the new UK quad without, the flagship of the British rowing Federation. The four remained in 27 races from 2005 to the World Cup in Lucerne in 2007 unbeaten, winning two years all World Cup races and the World Champion title in 2005 and 2006. According to a fourth place finish at the World Rowing Championships in 2007 was replaced by Tom James for the Olympic season Partridge. But the boat was able to start after injury problems before the World Cup in Poznan for the first time with the new line together and took the second place there. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the four delivered a thrilling battle with the Australians and won at the end just the gold medal.

Over the next three years, Reed and Triggs Hodge started in coxless pairs and won at the World Rowing Championships in 2009, 2010 and 2011 silver behind the New Zealanders Hamish Bond and Eric Murray. 2012, the pair returned to the quad without back: At the Olympic Games in 2012 the foursome with Alex Gregory, Peter Reed, Tom James and Andrew Triggs Hodge won the gold medal.

From 2013 he sat in the British eighth. The World Rowing Championships in Chungju, South Korea, she won gold and thus defeated Germany the eighth. This had always taken from 2009 to 2011 the world title in 2012 and was also Olympic champion.