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Alex Partridge

Personal information
Full name	Alexander Matthew Partridge
Nationality	British
Born	(1981-01-25)25 January 1981 (age 44) San Francisco,California, U.S.
Height	6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Weight	14.5 st (203 lb; 92 kg)
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Sport	Men'srowing
Event(s)	Coxless Four, Eight
College team	Oxford Brookes University Boat Club
Club	Leander Club
Coached by	Jürgen Gröbler
Medal record Representing Great Britain Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Eight 2012 London Eight World Championships 2005 Gifu Coxless Four 2006 Eton Coxless Four 2009 Poznań Coxless Four 2011 Bled Eight 2001 Lucerne Coxed Four 2003 Milan Eight

Alexander Matthew Partridge (born 25 January 1981 inSan Francisco) is a Britishrower, and an Olympic silver and bronze medallist.^[1]

Partridge started rowing atMonkton Combe School,Bath, and attendedOxford Brookes University to studyTechnology Management. Double Olympic championSteve Williams, with whom Partridge won two world titles attended both the same school, and the same university, as did Rowley Douglas – cox of the British Rowing 8 at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

Partridge first made his mark at senior level in 2001. Having won a silver medal in the four at the World U23 Championships withChristopher Martin, Henry Adams andDan Ouseley, the crew met the standard to gain selection for the coxed four at the senior World Championships in Lucerne. Having reached the final, they proved to be particularly strong in the final 500 m, rowing through the field to snatch the bronze medal on the line.

In 2002 and 2003, Alex raced in the Eight; the crew finished 6th at the World Championships, but stepped up in 2003 to win a bronze medal.

In 2004, Partridge won the GB Rowing Senior Selection Trials in the pair withAndrew Triggs Hodge. This proved a headache for the selectors who had already shuffled the previous year's crews considerably, in the wake ofMatthew Pinsent andJames Cracknell's disappointing 4th place in the pair in Milan. Until the trials Pinsent and Cracknell had been training in a four with Steve Williams andJosh West, but following the unexpected trials result replaced West with Partridge. Hodge remained in the Eight. However, following the World Cup in Lucerne, Partridge was diagnosed with a collapsed lung and had to withdraw from the Athens Olympics; he was replaced in the coxless four byEd Coode,^[2] and the crew went on to win the Olympic final beating the Canadian 4- by just 0.08 seconds. Patridge, however, was first across the line; the crew had named their boat after him.

In 2005 Partridge returned to full fitness and regained his place in the men's four with Triggs Hodge,Pete Reed and Williams, winning gold in the World Cups atEton, Munich and Lucerne and capping the season by taking gold in the World Championships in Japan. The 2006 World Cup brought further success with gold in all of the World Cup events in Munich, Poznań and Lucerne and another World Championship victory in front of their home supporters atDorney Lake,Eton.

The 2007 season proved to be far more disappointing; the previously unbeaten four was hit by injury, and although the full line up raced at the World Championships, they finished 4th – in startling contrast to their dominance of the previous two years.^[3]

In 2008, Partridge was replaced in the coxless four by quadruple Cambridge BlueTom James. Instead Partridge spent the season in the Eight, winning a silver medal in the Olympic final inBeijing.^[4]

He returned to the men's Four in 2009 and won gold at the World Championships in Poznań on 29 August 2009 alongsideMatt Langridge,Alex Gregory andRic Egington. He was part of the British squad that topped the medal table at the2011 World Rowing Championships inBled, where he won a silver medal as part of the eight withNathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell,Cameron Nichol,James Foad,Moe Sbihi,Greg Searle,Tom Ransley,Daniel Ritchie andPhelan Hill.^[5]

At the 2012 London Summer Olympics, Partridge won bronze in the men's eight event. The race was very close, with Great Britain taking the lead at the 1000 m mark, but lost the lead to Germany and then ended up finishing in the bronze medal position due to a late charge by Canada.

Partridge's bronze Olympic medal was stolen while in London at a night club in October 2012.^[6]

• 2008Beijing – Silver, Eight (bow)
• 2012London – Bronze, Eight (bow)

• 2011Bled – Silver Eight (four)
• 2010Karapiro – 4th Coxless Four
• 2009Poznań – Gold, Coxless Four
• 2007Munich – 4th, Coxless Four (three)
• 2006Eton – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2005Gifu – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2003Milan – Bronze, Eight (bow)
• 2002Seville – 6th, Eight (bow)
• 2001Lucerne – Bronze, Coxed Four (three)

• 2012Munich – Bronze Eight (bow)
• 2012Lucerne – Silver Eight (bow)
• 2012Belgrade – Silver Eight (bow)
• 2011Lucerne – Silver Eight (bow)
• 2011Munich – Silver Eight (bow)
• 2010Lucerne – Gold Four (bow)
• 2010Munich – Silver Four (bow)
• 2009Lucerne – Gold Four (bow)
• 2009Bled – Bronze Four (bow)
• 2009Bled – Gold Four (bow)
• 2008Poznań – Gold, Eight (bow)
• 2008Lucerne – Bronze, Eight (bow)
• 2008Munich – Silver, Eight (bow)
• 2007Amsterdam – Gold, Eight (bow)
• 2007Linz – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2006Lucerne – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2006Poznań – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2006Munich – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2005Lucerne – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2005Munich – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2005Eton – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2004Lucerne – Bronze, Coxless Four (three)
• 2004Munich – 5th, Coxless Four (three)
• 2004Poznań – Gold, Coxless Four (three)
• 2003Munich – 3rd, Eight (bow)
• 2002Munich – 6th, Eight (three)
• 2002Lucerne – 5th, Eight (three)
• 2002Hazewinkel – Gold, Eight (three)
• 2001Seville – 7th, Coxless Four (three)

• 2001Linz – Silver, Coxless Four

• 1999Plovdiv Lake – Silver, Coxless Four
• 1998Linz – Bronze, Coxed Pair

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