Andrew Triggs Hodge MBE

For the 2010 World Cup Series, Andrew with crewmate Pete Reed raced in the men's pair and won silver at all three events - Bled, Munich and Lucerne.  Although getting closer all the time, they have yet to beat the New Zealand pair of Eric Murray and Hamish Bond.

Andrew took his sixth title at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in Belgium in April this year, winning the men's pair with Pete Reed in a time of 6:41.72.

For the 2009 season, Andrew teamed up with fellow Olympian Pete Reed, coached by Jürgen Grobler, to race the men's pair.  This new men's pair won gold and two silvers in the World Cup series and at the World Rowing Championships in Poznan pushed the New Zealanders to within one second of Pinsent & Cracknell's World Record time of 6:14 to win a superb silver medal with Greece taking bronze.  

He is the Olympic Champion in the men's four, winning gold in Beijing in a thrilling race over Australia and France.  After a difficult 2008 season, the crew emerged in Beijing as once more the crew to beat in a dramatic day of semi-finals when they produced an excellent performance to win, while none of the 2007 World Championship medallists made the A Final.

A former Oxford Blue who won gold with the men's four at the World Championships in 2005 and 2006, Andrew won the men's pairs event for the fifth successive year in the 2008 GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in Belgium.  In 2007 the four had a mixed season finishing a disappointing 4th at the World Championships in Munich.

Andrew started rowing at Staffordshire University because he wanted to improve his fitness and participate in an athletic sport that was “more serious than rugby”.

After graduating in 2000, he moved to London and joined Molesey Boat Club.  Andrew made huge progress that winter and in spite of his lack of rowing experience he was selected for the 2001 GB Team for the World U23 Championships in which he finished 6th in the coxed four.

In 2002 Andrew won his first GB senior vest in the eight, which won a place in the World Championships final in Seville and finished in 6th place.

The following year saw Andrew back in the eight.  The crew improved throughout the season and showed their class at the World Championships in Milan by qualifying for the final and the Athens Olympics by taking 2nd place in their semi final, splitting the 2002 silver and bronze medallists.  In the final they raced in a leading pack of three, finishing with a very creditable bronze medal.

Andrew began 2004 by winning the men's pairs event at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials with Alex Partridge and was selected for the men's eight that went to the Olympic Games in Athens and finished 9th.

In 2005 he returned to University, this time at Oxford, where he studied for a postgraduate degree.  He stroked the winning Oxford Blue Boat in the 151st University Boat Race and then went on to win the men's pairs event at the GB Senior Trials for the second consecutive year, this time with his Oxford team–mate Pete Reed. The pair were then named in the men's four with Alex Partridge and Olympic Champion Steve Williams.

Andrew was awarded an MBE in the 2009 New Year's Honours list in recognition of his achievement.

Andrew is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.

Andrew, who has an MSc in Water Science, Policy & Management, is currently working as a part time consultant with Thames Water to help make the Tideway a cleaner place to row.