Sholto Carnegie (born 28 February 1995) is a British representative rower. He is an Olympian and a two-time world champion in the Great Britain men's eight.

University and club rowing

Raised in Oxford and educated at Cherwell School, Carnegie took up rowing aged 13 at the

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. Ahead of the

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of 2013 Carnegie made a switch from the City of Oxford RC to the

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with whom he won the Fawley Challenge Cup that year. By 2014 he had moved again to the

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and at Henley in 2014 he won the Prince of Wales Challenge Cup in a Leander quad scull. Carnegie attended

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from 2014 to 2018 where he qualified for a B. Economics. At Yale he participated in their senior rowing program and rowed in senior Yale boats in all three racing seasons of his tenure including a seat in the Yale first VIII which won a national championship in 2016-17.Carnegie at Yale
/ref> Back in England his club rowing has continued from Leander. In 2022, he won the

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(the blue riband event at the

) in the four seat of a composite Leander/

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crew. In 2023 again in

colours, he was at four in the Leander/

eight for another Grand Challenge Cup victory.

Representative career

Carnegie was first selected to representative honours as a sculler, racing for Great Britain at the 2013

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in a double scull to a fifth placing.Carnegie at World Rowing
/ref> He was selected for the 2014

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in a quad scull which finished in overall 13th place. By 2016 Carnegie had moved into sweep oared boats and he won silver medals at the U23 World Championships of 2016 (in the 8+) and 2017 (in the 4-). 2018 saw Carnegie move in the GB senior squad but he made only one representative appearance in the 2018 European racing season in a 4- which finished fourth at

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III. 2019 was more successful for Carnegie. He won a gold medal in the

coxless four A coxless four is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four persons who propel the boat with sweep oars, without a coxswain. The crew consists of four rowers, each having one oar. There are two rowers on t ...

at the

2019 European Rowing Championships The 2019 European Rowing Championships was held in Lucerne, Switzerland from 31 May to 2 June 2019.Oliver Cook,

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and

Rory Gibbs Rory Gibbs (born 3 April 1994) is a British representative rower - an Olympian and a two-time world champion. He won the 2022 and 2023 world championship titles in the British men's eight. Between 2016 and 2023 he rowed in victorious crews acro ...

then that same crew won a bronze medal at the

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. That crew of Carnegie, Cook, Rossiter and Gibbs stayed together throughout the Covid lost season of 2020 whilst knowing their 2019 performances had qualified the boat for the eventual

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. In 2021, they won a second European gold medal as a 4- in

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, Italy, then took gold at the

II. At the Tokyo Olympic regatta they won their heat, comfortably beating the eventual bronze medallists Italy. In the Olympic final they were in medal contention at each mark but were run down by the Italians in the last 500m and finished in fourth place. 2022 saw Carnegie selected to the four seat of the Great Britain senior men's eight. In that international season the eight won gold at two

s and at the

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. Carnegie in the British eight went on to win gold and a world championship title at the 2022 World Rowing Championships in Račice. In 2023 Carnegie won a second successive world championship in the

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at the

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in Belgrade.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carnegie, Sholto 1995 births Living people British male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for Great Britain Yale Bulldogs rowers Rowers from Greater London 21st-century British people