Steve Trapmore
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Competitor for the  United Kingdom
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| Men's rowing | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 2000 Sydney | Eights |
Stephen Patrick 'Steve' Trapmore (MBE) (born 18 March 1975) is an English competition rower and Olympic champion.
Trapmore won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as a member of the British rowing team.[1]
Working with Sport Imperial, Steve is also Imperial’s Olympic Ambassador, which will involve engaging with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and other agencies in the run up to the 2012 Olympics in London. Imperial is bidding to host either the Youth Camp for the Games, a small nation’s training camp or individual team hosting.
Steve started rowing at 15 at the Walton Rowing Club. By the age of 17 he was in the Great Britain Junior Team. As a senior athlete he trained with the Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association.
He has also won a gold, silver and bronze medal at the World Championships as well as wins at Henley Royal regatta and the Eights Head of the River race with Queen's Tower BC training out of the Imperial College Boat House.
On 26 July 2010, Steve was announced as having accepted the post as chief coach of Cambridge University Boat Club, to lead them into the 2011 Boat Race campaign.
References
- ↑ Profile: Steve Trapmore sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 12 December 2008)