Greg Searle

Gregory Mark Pascoe " Greg" Searle ( born March 20, 1972 in Ashford (Kent) ) is a British rower, who was 1992 Olympic champion in pairs with coxswain.

Career

Gregory Searle won at the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990 in the coxless four in 1990, he joined then also at the World Rowing Championships, finishing in fourth place with the aft, where his older brother Jonathan Searle sat. In 1991 the two brothers won the eighth World Cup bronze, helmsman of the rowing eight was in 1991 Garry Herbert. 1992 changed the Searles with coxswain Herbert in the two with coxswain. In the finals of the Olympic Regatta 1992 by Barcelona, the British defeated the Italian two with Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale and Giuseppe Di Capua, who had dominated this boat class in the 1980s. The brothers Searle and helmsman Herbert won even at the World Rowing Championships in 1993.

1994 formed the Searles along with Tim Foster and Rupert Obholzer a coxless four and thus won bronze medalist and 1995 World Championship silver in 1996 was followed by bronze at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. 1997 and 1998 Gregory Searle went to the One. In 1997, he won the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta. The World Rowing Championships 1997, he won the bronze medal behind the American James Koven and the German André Willms, 1998 Searle was WM- fifth. In the World Cup 1999 Gregory Searle returned to the coxless four back, but came at the World Championships again in one's there and took 14th place. 2000 Searle rowed along with Ed Coode in the coxless pairs, with whom he won twice the third place in the World Cup; at the Olympic Games in Sydney missed the two in fourth just the bronze medal. Then Searle ended his rowing career.

In the World Cup 2010 Searle returned as a member of the British rowing eight and won his first regatta in Bled same after almost ten years of absence. After two third place finishes in the World Cup regatta in Munich and Lucerne Searle won with the British Eighth silver at the World Rowing Championships 2010. According to a second and a third place in the World Cup 2011, the British Eighth also won at the World Rowing Championships 2011 Silver. At the Olympic Games 2012 in London, the British Eighth won with the 40 -year-old Searle the bronze medal behind Germany and Canada.