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Born | 13 December 1988 Cambridge, England | (age 36)|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charles Peter Cousins (born 13 December 1988) is a British rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[1]
Rowing career
Cousins competed in the quadruple sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics with Stephen Rowbotham, Tom Solesbury and Matthew Wells finishing in fifth place.[2]
He competed in the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju gaining a bronze medal in the men's quadruple sculls with Graeme Thomas, Sam Townsend and Peter Lambert.[3] At the 2014 World Championships, he won a silver medal in the same event, again with Thomas, Townsend and Lambert.[4] The same team won the silver medal at the 2014 European Championships.[5]
Coaching
Cousins was a coach for the Abingdon School Boat Club.[6]
References
- ^ "Charles Cousins". www.london2012.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ "Biographical information". Olympedia.
- ^ "2013 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS – Chungju, KOR – (M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls – Final". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ "2014 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS – Amsterdam, NED – (M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls – Final". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ "2014 EUROPEAN ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS – Belgrade, SRB – (M4x) Men's Quadruple Sculls – Final". www.worldrowing.com. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ "ROWING: Charles Cousins is class act at GB trials". The Herald.
External links
- 1988 births
- Living people
- English male rowers
- Sportspeople from Cambridge
- Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers for Great Britain
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Teachers at Abingdon School
- 21st-century English sportsmen
- British rowing biography stubs