Paul Bennett

MBE

Bennett at the 2016 European Rowing Championships
Personal information
Born	16 December 1988 (1988-12-16) (age 36) Leeds, England
Alma mater	King's College London Kellogg College, Oxford
Height	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Weight	15 st 10 lb (100 kg)
Medal record Men'srowing Representing Great Britain Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro M8+ World Championships 2014 Amsterdam M8+ 2015 Aiguebelette M8+ European Championships 2015 Poznan M8+

Paul Bennett (born 16 December 1988) is a Britishrower and Olympic gold medallist.^[1]

Bennett won theBoat Race in 2013 sitting at five for Oxford.

He competed at the2014 World Rowing Championships inBosbaan,Amsterdam, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight withNathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell,Matthew Tarrant,Will Satch,Matt Gotrel,Pete Reed,Tom Ransley,Constantine Louloudis andPhelan Hill.^[2] The following year he was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the2015 World Rowing Championships atLac d'Aiguebelette in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight withMatt Gotrel, Louloudis, Reed,Moe Sbihi,Alex Gregory,George Nash, Satch and Hill.^[3]

In 2016 he won a gold medal in theeight at the2016 Summer Olympics.^[4]

He was appointedMember of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the2017 New Year Honours for services to rowing.^[5][6]

From the age of about twelve until he was eighteen Bennett was educated atRoundhay School. Later he went on to graduate with a first class MSci in mathematics fromKing's College London in 2012, and completed an MSc inComputer Science atKellogg College, Oxford in 2013.^[7]

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• 1988 births
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• Alumni of King's College London
• Alumni of Kellogg College, Oxford
• English male rowers
• Rowers from London
• British male rowers
• World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
• Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic rowers for Great Britain
• Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
• Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic medalists in rowing
• Members of the Order of the British Empire
• European Rowing Championships medalists
• 21st-century English sportsmen

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