Scott Durant
{{short description|British rower}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name = Scott Durant
MBE
|image =Scott Durant Aiguebelette 2015 - 09-05 Médaillés britanniques (cropped).JPG
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|birth_date = {{birth-date and age|12 February 1988}}
|birth_place = Los Angeles, United States
|height={{convert|196|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}
|medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's rowing}}
{{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalGold|2016 Rio de Janeiro|Eight}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2014 Amsterdam|M2+}}
{{MedalBronze|2015 Aiguebelette|M4-}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2016 Brandenburg|Eight}}
{{MedalGold|2015 Poznań|M4-}}
{{MedalBronze|2014 Belgrade|Eight}} |show-medals = yes}}
Scott David Durant (born 12 February 1988) is a British rower and gold medallist in the Men's Eight at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games.{{cite web|last=Rowing|first=British|title=Scott Durant MBE|access-date=8 August 2017|url=http://www.britishrowing.org/gb-rowing-team/biographies/scott-durant}}{{cite web|last=John|first=Emma|date=13 August 2016 |publisher=The Observer|title=Britain's men's eight row to Olympic gold glory as women take silver|access-date=14 August 2016|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/13/britain-men-s-eight-row-olympic-gold-glory-women-silver}}
Rowing career
Durant, along with his brother Mason, started his rowing career at Lancaster Royal Grammar School (LRGS) they have since had a boat named after them in the school boat club fleet. He competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a silver medal as part of the coxed pair with Alan Sinclair and Henry Fieldman.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2014-world-rowing-championships/event-information |title=2014 World Rowing Championships: Event Information |website=WorldRowing.com |publisher=International Rowing Federation |access-date=19 August 2020}} The following year 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 bronze medal as part of the coxless four with Alan Sinclair, Tom Ransley and Stewart Innes.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/2015-world-rowing-championships/|title=2015 World Rowing Championships results|publisher=World Rowing}} He competed in the 2015 European Rowing Championships in Poznań winning a gold medal.
He was a gold medallist in the men's eight at the 2016 Summer Olympics with Tom Ransley, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Matt Langridge, Will Satch and Phelan Hill .
Awards
Durant was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to rowing.{{London Gazette|issue=61803 |supp=y|page=N17|date=31 December 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/580999/new-years-honours-2017-full-list.pdf|date=30 December 2016|access-date=31 December 2016|work=Gov.uk|publisher=Government Digital Service|title=New Year's Honours list 2017|page=57}}
References
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External links
- {{FISA|31821}}
{{Olympic champions – Men's eight}}
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Category:Rowers from Los Angeles
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
Category:Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic rowers for Great Britain
Category:Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:European Rowing Championships medalists
Category:21st-century British sportsmen
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