Tom Ransley

Tom raced in the men's eight at the 2009 World Championships in Poznan, finishing 5th, after establishing his place in the boat during the 2009 World Cup series, winning bronze in Banyoles and Munich.   Earlier in the year Tom raced for Cambridge in the Boat Race, finishing second!

Since taking up rowing at Kings School, Canterbury, he has represented Great Britain at U23 and Senior level.

In 2007, Tom finished 6th in the men's eight in the World U23 Championships and went on to finish 5th in the men's eight at the European Championships later that summer.  In the same year Tom won the Britannia Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta.

In 2008 Tom again rowed in the Boat Race and he was one of the four Cambridge University rowers selected to race together as a development men's four at the third World Cup in Poznan.  The crew finished 10th overall.  Tom and his CUBC crewmate Pete Marsland went on to race in the men's four at the 2008 European Championships, alongside brothers George and Will Laughton, winning the B-Final.  He also won the Steward's Challenge Cup at Henley.

He studied as an undergraduate at York University and did his post-graduate work at Cambridge.

Tom has also played basketball to County level.

Tom is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.