Harry Brightmore
{{Short description|British rower (born 1994)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2023}}
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| name = Harry Brightmore
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| nationality = British
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|7|1|df=y}}
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| country = Great Britain
| sport = Rowing
| event = Coxswain/Eights
| club = Oxford Brookes University Boat Club
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{{MedalSport|Men's rowing}}
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{{MedalOlympic}}
{{Medal|Gold | 2024 Paris | Eight }}
{{MedalComp|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2022 Račice|Eight}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Belgrade|Eight}}
{{MedalComp|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2022 Oberschleißheim|Eight}}
{{MedalGold|2024 Szeged|Eight}}
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Harry Brightmore (born 1 July 1994) is a British rowing coxswain.{{cite web |url=https://www.britishrowing.org/athlete/harry-brightmore/ |title=Profile |website=British Rowing |access-date=4 July 2023}} He is an Olympic and two-time world champion.
Junior and varsity rowing
Brightmore attended King's School, Chester where he took up coxing in 2008. He studied at Oxford Brookes University senior club rowing has been from the Oxford Brookes University Boat Club.
In 2023, he won the Grand Challenge Cup (the blue riband event at the Henley Royal Regatta) for the second time, in the stern of an Oxford Brookes / Leander composite men's senior eight.{{cite web |url=https://www.britishrowing.org/2023/07/leander-oxford-brookes-and-thames-dominate-at-henley-royal-regatta/ |title=Leander, Oxford Brookes and Thames dominate at Henley Royal Regatta |website=British Rowing |date=3 July 2023 |access-date=4 July 2023}} His 2021 victory in the same event was in an all Oxford Brookes crew.
International representative career
Brightmore made his international representative debut for Great Britain in a coxed four which rowed to an overall fourth placing at the 2014 U23 World Rowing Championships.[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/harry-brightmore?id=45656 Brightmore at World Rowing] In 2015 and 2016 he coxed the British U23 men's eight at those years' U23 World Championships. His first senior national representative appearance was under the canvas of the GB men's coxed pair at the 2017 World Rowing Championships.
It was 2022 when Brightmore took hold of the rudder ropes in the GB men's senior eight and that same year he became a world champion when that crew won the eights title at the 2022 World Rowing Championships. He had earlier won gold that season at the 2022 European Rowing Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/rowing/62532590 |title=European Championships Munich 2022: GB win four rowing gold medals |work=BBC |date=13 August 2022 |accessdate=2022-09-11}}
At the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, he won a second World Championship gold medal in the men's eight.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/rowing/66659461 |title=Catch-up: World Rowing Championships Finals: GB wins Gold in Men's Eight |work=BBC Sport |date=9 September 2023 |access-date=18 September 2023}}
He won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain eight at the 2024 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cek9ke3d0x0o |title=Britain's men win gold and women bronze in eights |date=3 August 2024 |publisher=BBC Sport |accessdate=3 August 2024}}
References
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External links
- {{World Rowing}}
- [https://www.britishrowing.org/athlete/harry-brightmore/ Harry Brightmore] at British Rowing
- {{Team GB|harry-brightmore/2MLFTZ2O6ocQ7TXDrwnYy9}}
- {{Olympics.com|harry-brightmore}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20241006163913/https://www.olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/harry-brightmore_1901041 Harry Brightmore] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, [https://paris2024.rtve.es/es/paris-2024/atleta/harry-brightmore_1901041 alternate link])
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{{World champions – Men's eight}}
{{Olympic champions – Men's eight}}
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Category:Alumni of Oxford Brookes University
Category:British coxswains (rowing)
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic rowers for Great Britain
Category:Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics