Matthew Anthony William Gotrel (born 1 March 1989) is a British

rower Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is di ...

Rowing career

At the

2014 World Rowing Championships The 2014 World Rowing Championships were the 44th edition of the World Rowing Championships and were held from 24 to 31 August 2014 at Bosbaan, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the second occasion on which the event had been held in Amsterdam, or ...

Bosbaan The Bosbaan is a rowing lake situated in the Amsterdamse Bos (Amsterdam Forest) in Amstelveen, Netherlands. Amstelveen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands and is part of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. Confusingly, all built str ...

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...

he was a member of the gold medal-winning eight with

Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell Nathaniel “Noddy” Reilly-O'Donnell (born 13 April 1988) is a British rower educated at St Leonard's School, Durham and University College London. Biography Junior Started rowing age 12 at St Leonard's School, Durham. At the 2005 World J ...

Matthew Tarrant Matthew T Tarrant (born 11 July 1990) is a British rower. Rowing career Tarrant won a gold medal in the eight at the 2014 World Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam. He was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the 2015 World ...

Will Satch William Spencer Satch (born 9 June 1989) is a British rower and Olympic gold medallist. Rowing career Satch was educated at Shiplake College near Henley-on-Thames in southeast Oxfordshire. His rowing coach was New Zealand gold medallist Sh ...

Pete Reed Peter K. Reed OBE (born 27 July 1981) is a retired British Olympic rower. Reed is a three-times Olympic gold medallist – earning gold in the Men's coxless four at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, and then a gold medal in the Men's eight at the 2 ...

Paul Bennett Paul Bennett may refer to: *Paul Bennett (Canadian football) (born 1954), Canadian football player *Paul Bennett (footballer, born 1952), English footballer *Paul Bennett (footballer, born 1961), English footballer *Paul Bennett (rower) (born 1988) ...

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Constantine Louloudis Constantine Michael Louloudis (born 15 September 1991) is a Greek-British rower. He is an Olympic champion, two time world champion and four time Boat Race winner. Personal life Constantine was a King's Scholar at Eton College, an all-boys ...

and

Phelan Hill Phelan Hill (born 21 July 1979) is a British rowing coxswain. He is a three-time world champion and an Olympic gold medallist. He competed in the Men's eight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal. In 2016, he competed in th ...

. The following year this was repeated when he was part of the British team that topped the medal table at the

2015 World Rowing Championships The 2015 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 30 August to 6 September 2015 at Lac d'Aiguebelette, Aiguebelette in France. Description The annual week-long rowing regatta was organized by FISA (the In ...

Lac d'Aiguebelette Lac d'Aiguebelette is a natural lake in the commune of Aiguebelette-le-Lac, within the department of Savoie, France. Geography Description With a surface area of 5.45 km2 and a depth of 71 meters it is one of the largest natural lakes of F ...

in France, where he won a gold medal as part of the eight with Louloudis, Reed, Bennett,

Moe Sbihi Mohamed Karim Sbihi (born 27 March 1988) is a British rower. He is a three-time Olympian and Olympic medal winner. He won a gold medal in the coxless four at 2016 Rio Olympics, and at the 2012 London Olympics he was in the British crew that w ...

Alex Gregory Alexander John Gregory, (born 11 March 1984) is an English rower and a two-time Olympic Gold medallist from 2012 and 2016 in the Coxless four. Education Alex Gregory was educated at the Richard Pate School in Cheltenham, then Bredon Hill ...

, George Nash, Satch and Hill. He won a gold medal in the

men's eight An eight is a rowing boat used in the rowing (sport), sport of competitive rowing (crew). It is designed for eight rowers, who propel the boat with Sweep (rowing), sweep oars, and is steered by a coxswain (rowing), coxswain, or "cox". Each of th ...

event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Awards

Gotrel was appointed

Member of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...

(MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to rowing.

References

External links

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British Rowing British Rowing, formerly the Amateur Rowing Association (ARA), is the national governing body for the sport of rowing (both indoor and on-water rowing). It is responsible for the training and selection of individual rowers and crews represent ...

* * * 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Leamington Spa British male rowers English male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Great Britain Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Place of birth missing (living people) Members of the Order of the British Empire 2021 America's Cup sailors English male sailors (sport) {{UK-rowing-bio-stub