Constantine Louloudis

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Constantine Louloudis
MBE

| image = Boat Race 2015 - Louloudis (cropped).jpg

| caption = Louloudis at The Boat Races 2015

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|9|15|df=yes}}

| birth_place = London, England

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| height = 190cm

| weight = 94kg

| country = Great Britain

| sport = Rowing

| collegeteam = Trinity College Boat Club

| club = Oxford University Boat Club

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Constantine Michael Louloudis (born 15 September 1991) is a Greek-British rower. He is an Olympic medal winner, two-time world champion and four-time Boat Race winner.

Personal life

Constantine was a King's Scholar at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire. He studied Classics at Trinity College, Oxford, and graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.{{cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/subsite/olympics/olympics/london_olympics_2012/competitors_profiles/constantine.html |title=Constantine Louloudis |access-date=4 August 2012 |publisher=University of Oxford |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607233829/http://www.ox.ac.uk/subsite/olympics/olympics/london_olympics_2012/competitors_profiles/constantine.html |archive-date=7 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}

His father is Greek and comes from the island of Andros.{{cite web|title=Constantine the Great|url=http://www.row-n.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92:flood-relief&catid=42:rokstories&Itemid=102|publisher=row-n.com|access-date=1 August 2012}}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} His mother is The Honourable Madeleine Louloudis CVO,2021_Birthday_Honours#Commander_of_the_Royal_Victorian_Order_(CVO) a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Anne, and daughter of the late 20th Viscount Dillon. He has one sister, Theodora, an award-winning journalist.

Rowing career

Constantine learned to row at Eton and in 2009 he stroked the Eton VIII that won at Henley Royal Regatta, the National Schools Regatta and the Schools' Head.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/rowing/9240447/Constantine-Louloudis-out-of-Great-Britain-eight-for-Belgrade-Rowing-World-Cup-regatta.html |title=Constantine Louloudis out of Great Britain eight for Belgrade Rowing World Cup regatta |work=The Telegraph |access-date=30 June 2021}}

He was in the six seat of the winning Oxford Blue boat at the 2011 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/rowing/9416611.stm|title=Oxford surge to Boat Race victory|date=26 March 2011|access-date=14 August 2016|publisher=BBC}} Later in 2011, he won the Men's Pairs, with George Nash, at the FISA World Rowing Under 23 Championships on the Bosbaan on 24 July 2011 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.teamgb.com/athletes/constantine-louloudis-0|title=Team GB Olympic Athlete Search – British Olympic Athlete Profiles|access-date=14 August 2016}}

He took a year out of his studies to train for and compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the men's eight.{{cite web|title=Bronze medal for Trinity's Louloudis|url=http://oxfordstudent.com/2012/08/01/bronze-medal-for-trinitys-louloudis/|publisher=Oxford student.com|access-date=1 August 2012}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/constantine-louloudis-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040232/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/constantine-louloudis-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Constantine Louloudis Olympic Results |access-date=1 August 2012 |work=Sports Reference}}{{cite web |url=http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/torchbearers/torchbearers=constantine-louloudis-5852/ |title=Constantine Louloudis |access-date=1 August 2012 |work=London 2012 |archive-date=29 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729212506/http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/torchbearers/torchbearers=constantine-louloudis-5852/ |url-status=dead }} Louloudis then returned to his Oxford studies, rowing in the winning eights of a second and third Boat Race in 2013 and 2014,{{cite news|last=Higginson|first=Marc|title=Boat Race 2014: Oxford emphatically beat Cambridge|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/rowing/26869789|access-date=7 April 2014|work=BBC Sport|date=6 April 2014}} before returning to the British eight, which he stroked to a gold medal at the 2014 World Rowing Championships. The next year he won a final Boat Race as president of Oxford University Boat Club. He was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight with Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Moe Sbihi, Alex Gregory, George Nash, Will Satch and Phelan Hill.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2015-world-rowing-championships/|title=2015 World Rowing Championships results|publisher=World Rowing|access-date=18 August 2020}}

At the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Louloudis rounded off his medal collection by stroking the GB men's 4- to gold, the fifth consecutive time a British crew had won the event.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2016-olympic-games-regatta/mens-four/final/#ROM041101|title=Events - worldrowing.com|access-date=14 August 2016}}

Post rowing

Louloudis was part of the BBC's coverage of the Boat Race from 2016 until 2022.

Honours

Louloudis was awarded the MBE in the Queen's 2017 New Year Honours list for services to rowing.{{cite web |url= https://www.teamgb.com/news/team-gb-stars-dominate-new-year-s-honours-list |title=Team GB stars dominate New Year's Honours List |date=30 December 2016 |work=Team GB}}