Richard Chambers (rower)

Richard Chambers ( born June 10, 1985 in Belfast ) is a British lightweight rowers. He won two gold medals and 2011 and a bronze medal at the World Championships.

Career

Chambers began as a child in Coleraine with the rowing, for the study, he moved to England at the Oxford Brookes University. In 2005 he won his first international medal when he reached at the U23 European Championships with the lightweight quadruple sculls second place. In 2006, he won the lightweight two - coxless with Chris Bartley at the U23 World Championships, at the World Rowing Championships in 2006 occupied the two sixth place. 2007 joined Chambers in the lightweight coxless four, the only Olympic lightweight boat class in the belt rowing. Along with James Lindsay - Fynn, Paul Mattick and James Clarke, he won the World Cup regatta in Lucerne and the title at the World Championships in Munich. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the British foursome finished fifth in the same cast as last year.

After a year without international launch Chambers returned in 2010 in the back four. In the occupation of Richard Chambers, Paul Mattick, Rob Williams and Chris Bartley the boat won the World Cup second place in Bled and two wins in Munich and Lucerne and also won at the World Championships in New Zealand. A year later, the boat won in the same occupation, the bronze medal at the World Championships in Bled. In the occupation of Peter Chambers, Rob Williams, Richard Chambers and Chris Bartley, the British foursome won the World Cup Final 2012 in Munich. In the finals of the Olympic Regatta in 2012, the British foursome was subject to South African boat and won by seven hundredths of a second ahead of the Danes silver.

Richard and Peter Chambers were the first pair of brothers in a British Olympic boat since Gregory and Jonathan Searle in 1996 at the Olympic Games in 2012.

The World Rowing Championships 2013 in Chungju, he won the bronze medal with his brother.