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| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1979-05-16)May 16, 1979 (age 46) Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kevin Richard Light (born May 16, 1979) is aCanadianrower.
He was born inVancouver,British Columbia but has lived inVictoria since 1985.
He began rowing in grade 12 atStelly's Secondary School, from which he graduated in 1997. He was enrolled at theUniversity of Victoria from 1997 until 2001, where he was part of numerous Canadian University Rowing Championships teams. The highlight of his university rowing career came in 2001 when the University of Victoria beat theUniversity of Washington at the Opening Day Regatta.
Light graduated from the Victoria Motion Picture School in 2004/2005 and then the Western Academy of Photography in 2008/2009, where he studied photojournalism.
Light won the gold medal at both the2002 and2003 World Rowing Championships in the eight. He competed in the eight at the2004 Summer Olympics, where he and his crew finished fifth. At the2006 World Rowing Championships, Light represented Canada along with fellow Victoria rowerMalcolm Howard in the men's coxless pair, where they won the bronze medal. In2007, Light won the gold medal in the eight.
He was named to the Canadian men's eight for the2008 Summer Olympics, where he won the gold medal withAndrew Byrnes,Kyle Hamilton,Malcolm Howard,Adam Kreek,Ben Rutledge,Dominic Sieterle,Jake Wetzel and coxBrian Price.[1]
In September 2012, he was brought on atClaremont Secondary School as a coach and manager. For his debut as head coach at theCSSRA inSt. Catharines, Ontario, Light led the team to gold medals in three different events: the senior women's quad, the junior men's double and the junior men's quad.[2] He coached throughout the next three years, leaving in June 2015.[3]
