James Rudkin

James Rudkin (born 7 July 1994) is a British national

James Rudkin
representative rower.[1] He is an Olympic and two-time
world champion. Personal information
Nationality British
Born 7 July 1994
Club and university rowing Northampton, England

Rudkin was raised in Northampton. He was introduced Height 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)

to rowing by his father and joined the Hollowell Sport
Scullers club.[1] He attended Stowe School on a sports Country Great Britain
scholarship[2] and then Newcastle University.[1] Sport Rowing

His senior club rowing was from the Newcastle Event Eight
University Boat Club where he was men's captain in Club Newcastle University Boat Club
2015.[1] Medal record

In 2022, he won the Grand Challenge Cup (the blue Men's rowing
riband event at the Henley Royal Regatta) in the seven Representing Great Britain
seat of a composite Leander/Oxford Brookes crew. In Olympic Games
2023 again in Leander Club colours, he was at seven in 2024 Paris Eight
the Leander/Oxford Brookes eight for another Grand
2020 Tokyo Eight
Challenge Cup victory.[3]
World Championships
2022 Račice Eight
International representative 2023 Belgrade Eight

career 2018 Plovdiv Eight

2019 Ottensheim Eight
Rudkin progressed through the underage levels European Championships
representing for Great Britain. He competed in junior 2021 Varese Eight
match racing against France in 2010 & 2011[1] and
2022 Oberschleißheim Eight
then at the 2012 Junior World Rowing Championships
2023 Bled Eight
he was selected in the GB quad scull which finished in
overall twelfth place.[4] He then raced in sweep oared 2024 Szeged Eight
crews at U23 World Rowing Championships in 2014, 2019 Lucerne Eight
2015 and 2016 winning a silver medal in the men's
four at that 2016 regatta.[4]

Rudkin moved into the senior Great Britain squad in 2017 and held a seat in the GB men's eight
consistently from 2017 to 2023. That crew finished in seventh place at the 2017 World Rowing
Championships[4] and achieved constant improvement thereafter. Rudkin won a bronze medal at the 2018
World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in the eight with Alan Sinclair, Tom Ransley,
Thomas George, Moe Sbihi, Oliver Wynne-Griffith, Matthew Tarrant, Will Satch and Henry Fieldman.[5]
He won another bronze medal the following year at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in
Ottensheim, Austria in the eight with George, Josh Bugajski, Sbihi, Jacob Dawson, Wynne-Griffith,
Tarrant, Thomas Ford and Fieldman.[6] That crew had won silver at the 2019 European Rowing
Championships.[7]

In 2021, he won a European gold medal in the eight in Varese, Italy.[8] [9] At that year's delayed 2020
Tokyo Olympics he was again in the seven seat of the Great Britain men's eight. They finished 3rd their
heat but proceeded through a repechage to make the Olympic final. In the final they rowed level with the
ultimate winner New Zealand at each mark but finished with a bronze medal being pipped for silver in
the last 500m by the fast finishing Deutschland-Achter.[4]

Rudkin became a world champion in the seven seat of the British eight at the 2022 World Rowing
Championships. He had earlier won gold that season at the 2022 European Rowing Championships.[10] In
2023 Rudkin won a second successive World Championship gold medal in the men's eight at the 2023
World Rowing Championships in Belgrade.[11]

He won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain eight at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[12]

References
1. "Profile" (https://www.britishrowing.org/athlete/james-rudkin/). British Rowing. Retrieved
4 July 2023.
2. "International Honours" (https://www.stowe.co.uk/school/sport/international-honours).
Stowe. Stowe School. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
3. "Leander, Oxford Brookes and Thames dominate at Henley Royal Regatta" (https://www.briti
shrowing.org/2023/07/leander-oxford-brookes-and-thames-dominate-at-henley-royal-regatt
a/). British Rowing. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
4. James Rudkin at World Rowing (https://worldrowing.com/athlete/james-rudkin?id=43549)
5. "2018 World Championship results" (http://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2018/R
OWMCOXED8------------------------_C74B.pdf) (PDF). World Rowing.
6. "2019 Eight results" (http://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2019_1/ROWMCOXED
8------------FNL-000100--_C73.pdf) (PDF). World Rowing.
7. "European Rowing Championships: Great Britain men's four win gold in Lucerne" (https://w
ww.bbc.co.uk/sport/rowing/48491456). BBC Sport. BBC. 2 June 2019. Retrieved 6 June
2019.
8. "Men's Double Sculls Final A (Final)" (https://worldrowing.com/event/2021-european-rowing-
championships/). World Rowing. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
9. "Men's Eight Final FA (Final)" (https://worldrowing.com/event/2021-european-rowing-champi
onships/). World Rowing. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
10. "European Championships Munich 2022: GB win four rowing gold medals" (https://www.bbc.
com/sport/rowing/62532590). BBC. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
11. "Catch-up: World Rowing Championships Finals: GB wins Gold in Men's Eight" (https://ww
w.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/rowing/66659461). BBC Sport. 9 September 2023. Retrieved
18 September 2023.
12. "Britain's men win gold and women bronze in eights" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/
articles/cek9ke3d0x0o). BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
External links
James Rudkin (https://worldrowing.com/athlete/43549) at World Rowing
James Rudkin (https://www.teamgb.com/athletes/5hNXcfLbMv8Y6tnWH4xRmf) at Team GB
James Rudkin (https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/143175) at Olympedia
James Rudkin at British Rowing (https://www.britishrowing.org/athlete/james-rudkin/)

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