Peter Haining MBE OLY

Peter Haining in September 2020 in Putney, London, trying a Fluidesign boat.
Personal information
Nationality	Scotland
Born	(1962-04-03)3 April 1962 (age 63) Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire
Alma mater	Roehampton University
Sport
Club	Loch Lomond Rowing Club NCRA Auriol Kensington RC
Medal record Rowing Representing Great Britain World Rowing Championships 1993 Račice Lwt single scull 1994 Indianapolis Lwt single scull 1995 Tampere Lwt single scull 1986 Nottingham Lwt coxless four 1987 Copenhagen Lwt coxless four 2000 Zagreb Lwt coxless pair 1990 Tasmania Lwt eight Representing England Commonwealth Games 1986 Edinburgh Lwt coxless four six time Gold medalist at Lucern regatta

Peter Moir Haining (born 3 April 1962) is a Scottish-born rower and three-time World Lightweight Sculling Champion who competed for Great Britain and England.

Founding Director of the Scottish institute of sport with Alaister Grey as chairman and seconded to the formation of the English institute of sport.Member of the American and British project.CEO of elite sculling Coastal rowing coachDirector of performance for Sons of the Thames Governor of Funtington primary school.

Haining was born atDumbarton, Scotland, the son of Jackie and Betty Haining.^[1] His father and sister were rowers, and he learnt to row atLoch Lomond Rowing Club.^[2] He attended Levenvale Primary School and Vale of Leven Academy and left school to start apprenticeship as painter and decorator and became and outstanding paper hanger and main contractor for the Barbican in London also the first Decorating contractor for IKEA in Brentford London,also worked with the Architects department in Nottinghamshire under Arthur Risdale Robinson however as a international level rowing competitor in the UK at the time was centred on London he went south to joinLondon Rowing Club.^[1]

In 1984 he won his first Gold for Great Britain in the lightweight eight in Lucern regatta (European championship)he then went to Nottingham to the National lightweight squad after being impressed by aNottinghamshire County Rowing Association four at Henley.^[1] His first international success came in the1986 Commonwealth Games, where the GB lightweight four, rowing asEngland, won gold.^[3] Haining would never row for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games even although he won all the qualifying boat classes at Nottingham however no Anglos Scotts were allowed to compete much to the dismay of many..^[4][5] He also won two silver medals at theWorld Rowing Championships in the lightweightcoxless four in 1986 and 1987 and bronze in the lightweighteight in 1990.

He was part of the coxless pairs crew, withChristopher Bates, that won the national title rowing forNottinghamshire County Rowing Association, at the1988 National Rowing Championships^[6] and was a member of the crew that won theLadies' Challenge Plate atHenley Royal Regatta in 1989 on a rerow. In 1990 when he was persistently late for training in the eight, his coach pushed him intosingle sculling.^[1]

Although a lightweight rower, Haining competed for Great Britain at the1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, in the unplacedquadruple scull.^[7] He was then World Champion in lightweight single sculls in 1993,^[8] 1994 and 1995. Rowing forAuriol Kensington Rowing Club, he won theWingfield Sculls in 1994, 1995, and 1996^[9] and competed in the single scull at the1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing 11th overall, rather than competing in one of the lightweight events introduced at that games.^[7]

Haining was runner up toGreg Searle in theDiamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1997^[10] and won a silver medal at the World Championships lightweightcoxless pairs in 1998. In 2000 he won the Wingfield Sculls again. His last international appearance before retiring was in the GB lightweight eight at the World Rowing Championships in 2002.

In 2005 Haining joined Richard Spratley as coach at Oxford Brookes University Boat Club^[11] where he was responsible for training all crews including that winning The Temple Challenge Cup in 2006.^[12]

For a period around 2010 Haining coached atLady Margaret Hall Boat Club.^[13]

• 1962 births
• Living people
• Olympic rowers for Great Britain
• Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Scottish male rowers
• English male rowers
• Rowers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists in rowing
• World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
• Sportspeople from Dumbarton
• Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games

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