Toby Garbett (2004) British rower (born 1976)
Toby Garbett (born 14 November 1976) is an English former rower who won two World Championship gold medals for Great Britain and competed in the men'scoxless pair at the2004 Summer Olympics .[ 1]
Early life and club rowing [ edit ] Garbett was born inChertsey ,Surrey and rowed forLeander Club after leaving school.[ 1] Standing 1.93 metres (6.3 ft), he progressed through the British junior and under-23 squads before joining the senior team in the late 1990s.[ 2]
At the 2000 World Championships for non-Olympic events in Zagreb, Garbett rowed in the two seat of the British coxed four that led from the start to take gold, Great Britain’s first world title in the boat class.[ 3]
The following year he,Steve Williams ,Ed Coode andRick Dunn won the men’s coxless four final at Lucerne in 5:48.98, succeeding the celebrated Redgrave crew as world champions.[ 4]
Garbett remained in the flagship four as it won consecutive silver medals at the 2002 World Championships in Seville and the 2003 regatta in Milan.[ 5]
Olympic cycle (2004)[ edit ] In February 2004 national coachJürgen Gröbler reshuffled his crews, movingMatthew Pinsent andJames Cracknell into the four and instructing Garbett and Dunn to form a new coxless pair.[ 6] A month later Garbett and Dunn’s runners-up finish at the Hazewinkel trials made them favourites for Olympic selection in the pair,[ 7] but back pain briefly threatened Garbett’s place during the final build-up.[ 8]
At the2004 Summer Olympics in Athens the pair placed fourth in a fiercely contested semi-final dubbed “the semi from hell” and went on to win the B-final for seventh overall.[ 9]
Garbett continued to vie for national selection and in July 2008 successfully appealed his omission from theBeijing squad, forcing a late re-trial in Austria.[ 10] Although narrowly outside the qualifying standard in a 2 km time-trial, the bid ultimately fell short and he retired from international rowing later that year.[ 11]
Coaching and business [ edit ] After elite rowing Garbett qualified as a Pilates instructor and British Triathlon Level 2 coach, winning age-group national titles before opening TG Gym & Wellness in Henley-on-Thames in 2022.[ 12] The centre also serves as the strength-and-conditioning hub for Leander Club’s athletes.[ 12]
World championships [ edit ] 2003 – Silver, Coxless four (withSteve Williams ,Josh West ,Rick Dunn ) 2002 – Silver, Coxless four (with Steve Williams, Josh West, Rick Dunn) 2001 – Gold, Coxless four (with Steve Williams,Ed Coode , Rick Dunn) 2000 – Gold, Coxed four (with Steve Williams, Ed Coode, Rick Dunn,Alistair Potts ) ^a b "Toby Garbett" .Olympedia . Retrieved30 June 2025 .^ Longmore, Andrew (19 August 2001)."Life after gold man river brings redemption on the water" .The Independent . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Page, Geoffrey (7 August 2000)."Rowing: Britain recover with double gold" .The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Dodd, Chris (25 August 2001)."British pair focus on double vision" .The Guardian . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Henderson, Jon (1 August 2004)."Hell and highwater" .The Observer . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Cross, Martin (19 March 2004)."Dunn tells of paired down despair" .The Guardian . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Cross, Martin (15 April 2004)."Pairs shock upsets rowing plans" .The Guardian . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Topolski, Daniel (4 July 2004)."Men's four suffer blow" .The Guardian . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Cross, Martin (19 August 2004)."Grainger and Bishop find another gear" .The Guardian . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Cross, Martin (14 July 2008)."Discarded Garbett wins right to Olympic trial" .The Guardian . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^ Cross, Martin (16 July 2008)."Time-trial brings Garbett's Olympic dream to an end" .The Guardian . Retrieved30 June 2025 . ^a b "Former Olympic rower opens gym" .Henley Standard . 10 September 2022. Retrieved30 June 2025 .
1962 : (Gerd Wolter ,Dagobert Thometschek ,Peter Paustian ,Christian Prey )1966 : (Frank Forberger ,Frank Rühle ,Dieter Grahn ,Dieter Schubert )1970 : (Frank Forberger ,Frank Rühle ,Dieter Grahn ,Dieter Schubert )1974 : (Siegfried Brietzke ,Andreas Decker ,Stefan Semmler ,Wolfgang Mager )1975 : (Siegfried Brietzke ,Andreas Decker ,Stefan Semmler ,Wolfgang Mager )1977 : (Wolfgang Mager ,Stefan Semmler ,Andreas Decker ,Siegfried Brietzke )1978 : (Vladimir Predbradzensky ,Nikolay Kuznetsov ,Valeriy Dolinin ,Anatoly Nemtyryov )1979 : (Wolfgang Mager ,Andreas Decker ,Stefan Semmler ,Siegfried Brietzke )1981 : (Aleksey Kamkin ,Valeriy Dolinin ,Aleksandr Kulagin ,Vitaliy Eliseyev )1982 : (Bruno Saile ,Jörg Weitnauer ,Hans-Konrad Trümpler ,Stefan Netzle )1983 : (Norbert Keßlau ,Volker Grabow ,Jörg Puttlitz ,Guido Grabow )1985 : (Norbert Keßlau ,Volker Grabow ,Jörg Puttlitz ,Guido Grabow )1986 : (Ted Swinford ,Daniel Lyons ,John Riley ,Robert Espeseth )1987 : (Jens Luedecke ,Thomas Greiner ,Ralf Brudel ,Olaf Förster )1989 : (Jens Luedecke ,Thomas Greiner ,Ralf Brudel ,Olaf Förster )1990 : (Nick Green ,Mike McKay ,James Tomkins ,Samuel Patten )1991 : (Andrew Cooper ,Nick Green ,Mike McKay ,James Tomkins )1993 : (Michel Andrieux ,Daniel Fauché ,Philippe Lot ,Jean-Christophe Rolland )1994 : (Riccardo Dei Rossi ,Raffaello Leonardo ,Valter Molea ,Carlo Mornati )1995 : (Riccardo Dei Rossi ,Raffaello Leonardo ,Valter Molea ,Carlo Mornati )1997 : (James Cracknell ,Tim Foster ,Matthew Pinsent ,Steve Redgrave )1998 : (James Cracknell ,Tim Foster ,Matthew Pinsent ,Steve Redgrave )1999 : (James Cracknell ,Steve Redgrave ,Ed Coode ,Matthew Pinsent )2001 : (Toby Garbett ,Steve Williams ,Ed Coode ,Rick Dunn )2002 : (Sebastian Thormann ,Paul Dienstbach ,Philipp Stüer ,Bernd Heidicker )2003 : (Cameron Baerg ,Thomas Herschmiller ,Jake Wetzel ,Barney Williams )2005 : (Steve Williams ,Pete Reed ,Alex Partridge ,Andrew Triggs Hodge )2006 : (Steve Williams ,Pete Reed ,Alex Partridge ,Andrew Triggs Hodge )2007 : (Carl Meyer ,James Dallinger ,Eric Murray ,Hamish Bond )2009 : (Alex Partridge ,Richard Egington ,Alex Gregory ,Matt Langridge )2010 : (Jean-Baptiste Macquet ,Germain Chardin ,Julien Desprès ,Dorian Mortelette )2011 : (Matt Langridge ,Richard Egington ,Tom James ,Alex Gregory )2013 : (Boaz Meylink ,Kaj Hendriks ,Mechiel Versluis ,Robert Lücken )2014 : (Alex Gregory ,Moe Sbihi ,George Nash ,Andrew Triggs Hodge )2015 : (Marco Di Costanzo ,Matteo Castaldo ,Matteo Lodo ,Giuseppe Vicino )2017 : (Joshua Hicks ,Spencer Turrin ,Jack Hargreaves ,Alexander Hill )2018 : (Joshua Hicks ,Spencer Turrin ,Jack Hargreaves ,Alexander Hill )2019 : (Mateusz Wilangowski ,Mikołaj Burda ,Marcin Brzeziński ,Michał Szpakowski )2022 : (William Stewart ,Sam Nunn ,David Ambler ,Freddie Davidson )2023 : (Oliver Wilkes ,David Ambler ,Matt Aldridge ,Freddie Davidson )2025 : (Daniel Graham ,James Robson ,Douwe de Graaf ,George Bourne )
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