Description
Richard Scott Chambers is a British rower.
Richard began rowing at the age of 14, at Coleraine Academical Institution, under the coaching of Bobby Platt MBE. He later left Coleraine Inst and joined Bann Rowing Club Coleraine at the age of 16, and went on to represent Ireland in the junior pair at the 2003 Home Internationals in Cork with Stephen Feeney, under the coaching of Simon Hamilton. He then attended Oxford Brookes University reading Construction Management. There he rowed for the university boat club, coached by Peter Haining and Richard Spratley. It was there that he progressed into the Great Britain Rowing team.
In 2005, Richard attended the World Under-23 Rowing Championships held in Amsterdam, where he took silver in the Lightweight Men's Quadruple Scull. The following year he bettered this with a Gold medal and a world best-time in the under-23 Lightweight Men's Pair event with Christopher Bartley at Hazelwinkel. He attended his first senior World Rowing Championships later on that summer in the Lightweight Men's Pair.
In 2007 he rowed in the Great Britain Lightweight Men's Four, alongside James Clarke, Paul Mattick and James Lindsay-Fynn.
Born
June 10th, 1985 in Belfast (Age 39)
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