Alistair Potts
 Alistair Potts in 1990 | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Competitor for  United Kingdom
| ||
| Men's Rowing | ||
| World Championships | ||
| Silver | 1999 St.Catherine's | Coxed Four |
| Gold | 2000 Zagreb | Coxed Four |
| Henley Royal Regatta | ||
| Gold | 1996 Ladies' Plate | Eight |
| Gold | 2000 Prince Philip Cup | Coxed Four |
| University Boat Race | ||
| Gold | 1995 Cambridge Women | Eight |
| Gold | 1996 Goldie | Eight |
| Gold | 1998 Cambridge Men | Eight |
| Cambridge May Head of the River | ||
| Gold | 1995 Trinity Hall Men | Eight |
Alistair James Potts (born 7 July 1971) is a British World Champion cox.
Potts was born in Chertsey, Surrey, and educated at Winchester College and the University of Edinburgh (studying architectural history). He coxed the men's four, men's lightweight eight and women's eight at the 1994 Commonwealth Regatta representing Scotland. After going up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge University at the end of 1994, he was winning coxswain in the record-breaking CUWBC crew at the 1995 Women's Boat Race. This was quickly followed by coxing Trinity Hall BC to the headship in the May Bumps. In 1996 Potts recorded a record-breaking win in the Goldie-Isis reserve race and won the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta with CUBC (rowing as Goldie Boat Club). In 1998 he steered the record-breaking Cambridge Blue Boat in the Boat Race.
Potts won a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships at St. Catharines, Canada in the coxed four with Jonny Searle, Jonny Singfield, Rick Dunn and Graham Smith. Gold came in 2000 at Zagreb in the same boat class with Dunn, Smith and Toby Garbett and Steve Williams. This was the first time Great Britain had won the coxed four at the World Rowing Championships since its inception. That same crew also won the Prince Philip Challenge Cup at Henley.
Potts' rowing career finished in 2000 coinciding with the completion of his doctoral thesis on "The Development of the Playhouse in Seventeenth-Century London".[1] Potts is now a writer and broadcaster, and had a brief acting part in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2004.[2][3] He and his wife Emily are directors of Party Ark, an internet-based children's party supplies business[4] and administer the Titulus Regius website on the history of Richard III.[5]
Achievements
- World Rowing Championships Medals: 1 Gold, 1 Silver (Great Britain)
- Henley Royal Regatta Medals: 2 Gold (Goldie BC and Leander Club)
- Blue Boat / Women's Blue Boat Wins: 2 (Cambridge University)
World Championships
- 2000 — Gold, Coxed Four (with Steve Williams, Rick Dunn, Toby Garbett, Graham Smith)
- 1999 — Silver, Coxed Four (with Jonny Singfield, Jonny Searle, Rick Dunn, Graham Smith)
See also
References
- ↑ Alistair James Potts (June 1998). "The Development of the Playhouse in Seventeenth-Century London". Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ↑ "Guest Character Profiles". Neighbours: The Perfect Blend. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ↑ "Neighbours Episode 4476". TV.com. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ↑ "About Us". Party Ark Ltd. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
- ↑ "About - Titulus Regius".