Rowley Douglas

{{Short description|British rower (born 1977)}}

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{{MedalSport | Men's rowing}}

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{{MedalGold| 2000 Sydney|Eight}}

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{{MedalSilver | 1999 St. Catharines | Eight }}

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Rowley Douglas MBE (born 27 January 1977 in Washington, D.C., United States) is a coxswain and rowing Olympic champion for Great Britain.

Douglas won a gold medal in the eight at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as a member of the British rowing team.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417191435/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/do/rowley-douglas-1.html Profile: Rowley Douglas] sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 12 December 2008) In the Olympic final the British crew took an early lead and were only challenged towards the very end of the race.

Douglas coxed a variety of national team boats before taking the senior position with the national men's eight at the start of 1999. In the same year the crew won a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships. When in 2000 they won two rounds of the World Rowing Cup the eight began to be ranked amongst the favourites for the Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/do/rowley-douglas-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417191435/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/do/rowley-douglas-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|title=Rowley Douglas Bio, Stats, and Results|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|access-date=31 October 2017}}

Douglas's last major championship appearance was in 2001.

He came out of retirement in 2010 in anticipation of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but a proposed trial at the Team GB training camp in Varese, Italy was scrapped by British Rowing.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} Douglas appealed the decision but his claim was rejected.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/rowing/9250698/London-2012-Olympics-snubbed-Rowley-Douglas-hits-back-at-British-Rowing-over-Games-omission.html|title=London 2012 Olympics: snubbed Rowley Douglas hits back at British Rowing over Games omission|last=Quarrell|first=Rachel|date=8 May 2012|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=16 March 2017}}

Douglas was appointed an MBE (Order of the British Empire) in the 2001 New Year Honours List.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7121714.Olympians_lead_the_way_in_New_Year_s_Honours_parade/|title=Olympians lead the way in New Year's Honours parade|date=30 December 2000|work=The Northern Echo|access-date=16 March 2017}}

He has held a number of senior roles across the financial services industry, including working for the financial services arm of General Electric.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} As of 2017, he works as vice president for North America for CloudSense, a US technology company.{{cite web|url=http://cloudsense.com/company|title=About CloudSense – Our story and executive team|website=Cloudsense.com|access-date=31 October 2017}}