Richard Chambers

Richard was injured after the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in April 2009 and this kept him out of a boat for the remainder of the 2009 season.  However, as he aspires to be a coach, he kept himself busy over the summer by coaching up and coming lightweights including the GB LM2- which competed in Poznan.  Fortunately he is now recovered enough to come back to full training.

He was selected in the lightweight men's four for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and finished 5th.  His Olympic debut followed an outstanding 2007 season in the lightweight men's four, winning bronze, silver and gold in the World Cup series to become World Cup Champion.  The crew went on to win gold at the World Championships, the first ever lightweight Olympic class Gold for GB! 

In 2006 Richard raced in the lightweight men's pair all season with Chris Bartley.  They won this event at the World Cup Regatta in Poznan and became World U23 Champions in the July.  With this gold medal under their belt they won selection for the World Rowing Championships in Eton where they made the A final finishing 6th.

Richard attended Coleraine Academical Institution where he began rowing at the age of 15 under the watchful eye of Bobby Platt MBE.  In 2003 he moved to Oxford Brookes University and joined the U23 team in 2005, where he won silver in the men's lightweight quad.

He finished four years of studying Construction Management at Oxford Brookes University in 2007 and now trains full time with the men's lightweight squad.  Richard is a Christian and attends St Ebbe church in Oxford.  His younger brother Peter is also a keen rower in Coleraine.

Richard is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.