Jacob Dawson (born 2 November 1993) is a British representative

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. He is a world champion and an Olympic bronze medallist with both those titles won the Great Britain men's eight.

Club and varsity rowing

Dawson was introduced to rowing at age 14 at the Start Centre in his hometown of

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, England. His early club rowing was from the Plymouth Amateur Rowing Club.Dawson 2020 Olympian
/ref> He attended the Plymstock Secondary School. Following his success at the

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in 2011, Dawson was offered a place at the

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. He studied Geography and participated in their senior rowing program. He raced in the Huskies 1st varsity eight in the three of his four racing seasons at the university and was team captain in his senior year. Since making the senior British representative squad in 2017, Dawson's club rowing has been from

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. In 2023, he won the

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(the blue riband event at the

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) rowing in a composite Leander/

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eight .

Representative rowing career

Dawson first represented for Great Britain at the 2011

where he won two events in a quad scull. Following completion of his studies at the

, Dawson was selected in the senior Great Britain representative squad in 2017. He started in a coxless pair for

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I but by WRC II he'd moved in the men's eight. In that crew he placed seventh at the

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Dawson at World Rowing
/ref> In 2018 Dawson rowed in the British men's coxless four and in that boat he won a bronze medal at the

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, Bulgaria, with Thomas Ford,

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and James Johnston. 2019 saw Dawson back in the five seat in the British men's eight. He won a silver medal in the

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at the

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rowing with Thomas George,

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, Josh Bugajski,

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, Thomas Ford and

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. In 2021, he won a European gold medal in the eight in

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, Italy. At that year's delayed

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he rowed in the two seat of the Great Britain men's eight. They finished 3rd their heat but proceeded through a repechage to make the Olympic final. In the final they rowed level with the ultimate winner New Zealand at each mark but finished with a bronze medal being pipped for silver in the last 500m by the fast finishing Deutschlandachter. Dawson became a world champion from the bow seat of the British eight at the

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. In the eight he had earlier won gold that season at the

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and had finished first then second at

s II and III.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dawson, Jacob 1993 births Living people British male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in rowing Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Gosport