Peter Rudge (born 21 October 1981) is a British former rowing
cox.
Career
Rudge began rowing in 1994 at
The King's School, Chester
The King's School, Chester, is a British co-educational independent day school for children aged 4 to 18. It is one of the seven 'King's Schools' established (or re-endowed and renamed) by King Henry VIII in 1541 after the Dissolution o ...
.
He read Theology at
Durham University, where he competed for
the university boat club, and graduated in 2003.
Selected for the Great Britain senior squad as an undergraduate, Rudge won bronze as part of the British Coxed Four at the
2001 World Championships, and took silver at the
2003 World Championships in the same event.
He continued his studies at
Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Hughes Hall is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. It is the oldest of the University of Cambridge's postgraduate colleges. The college also admits undergraduates, though unde ...
and represented
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge beca ...
at the
2005 Boat Race. He also took part in the
2006 race.
References
Living people
1981 births
English male rowers
Durham University Boat Club rowers
Alumni of Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Alumni of Van Mildert College, Durham
World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
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