British rower
Andrew John Holmes MBE (15 October 1959 – 24 October 2010)[ 2] was a British rower .
Holmes was born in Uxbridge , Greater London, and was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith , west London, where he was coached by Olympic rowing silver medallist Jim Clark .[ 2] After leaving school, he rowed for Kingston Rowing Club and then Leander Club .[ 3] At the age of 19, he won the Thames Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta .
He rowed twice in the Olympic Games (in 1984 and 1988 ) with Sir Steve Redgrave . He was a gold medalist in the men's coxed four in 1984 and in the men's coxless pair in 1988 , when he also took bronze in the coxed pair . He also rowed for England in the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh , Scotland .[ 4] winning the coxed four and the coxless pair competitions.,[ 5]
He retired from rowing in 1990 and severed most contacts with the sport. His daughter only discovered her father's gold-medal-winning pedigree when reading about him in a book at school.[ 3]
He died in London in 2010 after contracting Weil's disease, a severe form of leptospirosis , which results from contact with urine from infected animals or ingesting water contaminated with urine from infected animals.[ 6] [ 7]
Standard 1900 – final A : Henri Bouckaert , Jean Cau , Émile Delchambre , Henri Hazebrouck , Charlot (cox) (FRA ) 1900 – final B : Gustav Goßler , Oscar Goßler , Walther Katzenstein , Waldemar Tietgens , Carl Goßler (cox) (GER ) 1912 : Albert Arnheiter , Hermann Wilker , Rudolf Fickeisen , Otto Fickeisen , Karl Leister (cox) (GER ) 1920 : Willy Brüderlin , Max Rudolf , Paul Rudolf , Hans Walter , Paul Staub (cox) (SUI ) 1924 : Émile Albrecht , Alfred Probst , Eugen Sigg , Hans Walter , Walter Loosli (cox), Émile Lachapelle (cox) (SUI ) 1928 : Valerio Perentin , Giliante D'Este , Nicolò Vittori , Giovanni Delise , Renato Petronio (cox) (ITA ) 1932 : Hans Eller , Horst Hoeck , Walter Meyer , Joachim Spremberg , Carlheinz Neumann (cox) (GER ) 1936 : Hans Maier , Walter Volle , Ernst Gaber , Paul Söllner , Fritz Bauer (cox) (GER ) 1948 : Warren Westlund , Bob Martin , Bob Will , Gordy Giovanelli , Allen Morgan (cox) (USA ) 1952 : Karel Mejta , Jiří Havlis , Jan Jindra , Stanislav Lusk , Miroslav Koranda (cox) (TCH ) 1956 : Alberto Winkler , Romano Sgheiz , Angelo Vanzin , Franco Trincavelli , Ivo Stefanoni (cox) (ITA ) 1960 : Gerd Cintl , Horst Effertz , Klaus Riekemann , Jürgen Litz , Michael Obst (cox) (EUA ) 1964 : Peter Neusel , Bernhard Britting , Joachim Werner , Egbert Hirschfelder , Jürgen Oelke (cox) (EUA ) 1968 : Dick Joyce , Ross Collinge , Dudley Storey , Warren Cole , Simon Dickie (cox) (NZL ) 1972 : Peter Berger , Hans-Johann Färber , Gerhard Auer , Alois Bierl , Uwe Benter (cox) (FRG ) 1976 : Vladimir Eshinov , Nikolay Ivanov , Mikhail Kuznetsov , Aleksandr Klepikov , Aleksandr Sema (heat 1), Aleksandr Lukyanov (cox) (URS ) 1980 : Dieter Wendisch , Ullrich Dießner , Walter Dießner , Gottfried Döhn , Andreas Gregor (cox) (GDR ) 1984 : Martin Cross , Richard Budgett , Andy Holmes , Steve Redgrave , Adrian Ellison (cox) (GBR ) 1988 : Bernd Niesecke , Karsten Schmeling , Bernd Eichwurzel , Frank Klawonn , Hendrik Reiher (cox) (GDR ) 1992 : Iulică Ruican , Viorel Talapan , Dimitrie Popescu , Nicolae Țaga , Dumitru Răducanu (cox) (ROU ) Inrigged
1962 : (Wolfgang Neuß , Klaus-Günter Jordan , cox Frank Steinhäuser ) 1966 : (Hadriaan van Nes , Jan van de Graaff , cox Poul de Haan ) 1970 : (Ștefan Tudor , Petre Ceapura , cox Ladislau Lovrenschi ) 1974 : (Vladimir Eshinov , Nikolay Ivanov , cox Aleksandr Lukyanov ) 1975 : (Jörg Lucke , Wolfgang Gunkel , cox Bernd Fritsch ) 1977 : (Todor Mrankov , Dimitar Yanakiev , cox Stefan Stoykov ) 1978 : (Jürgen Pfeiffer , Gert Uebeler , cox Olaf Beyer ) 1979 : (Jürgen Pfeiffer , Gert Uebeler , cox Georg Spohr ) 1981 : (Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale , cox Giuseppe Di Capua ) 1982 : (Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale , cox Giuseppe Di Capua ) 1983 : (Ullrich Dießner , Thomas Greiner , cox. Andreas Gregor ) 1985 : (Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale , cox Giuseppe Di Capua ) 1986 : (Andy Holmes , Steve Redgrave , cox. Patrick Sweeney ) 1987 : (Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale , cox Giuseppe Di Capua ) 1989 : (Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale , cox Giuseppe Di Capua ) 1990 : (Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale , cox Giuseppe Di Capua ) 1991 : (Carmine Abbagnale , Giuseppe Abbagnale , cox Giuseppe Di Capua ) 1993 : (Jonny Searle , Greg Searle , cox Garry Herbert ) 1994 : (Igor Boraska , Tihomir Franković , cox Milan Ražov ) 1995 : (Luca Sartori , Giuliano de Stabile , cox Antonio Cirillo ) 1996 : (Yannick Schulte , Luc Prevot , cox Christophe Tellier ) 1997 : (Scott Fentress , Jordan Irving , cox Nicholas Anderson ) 1998 : (Nick Green , James Tomkins , cox Brett Hayman ) 1999 : (James Neil , Phil Henry , cox Nicholas Anderson ) 2000 : (Matt Guerrieri , Kurt Borcherding , cox Nicholas Anderson ) 2001 : (James Cracknell , Matthew Pinsent , cox Neil Chugani ) 2002 : (Lars Krisch , Andreas Werner , cox Claus Müller-Gattermann ) 2003 : (Matt Rich , Dan Beery , cox Andrew Kelly ) 2004 : (Mattia Trombetta , Mario Palmisano , cox Luigi Longobardi ) 2005 : (Hardy Cubasch , Sam Conrad , cox Marc Douez ) 2006 : (Nikola Stojić , Jovan Popović , cox Ivan Ninković ) 2007 : (Dawid Paczes , Lukasz Kardas , cox Daniel Trojanowski ) 2008 : (Gabriel Bergen , James Dunaway , cox Mark Laidlaw ) 2009 : (Troy Kepper , Henrik Rummel , cox Marcus McElhenney ) 2010 : (Chris Morgan , Dominic Grimm , cox David Webster ) 2011 : (Vincenzo Capelli , Pierpaolo Frattini , cox Niccolò Fanchi ) 2012 : (Stanislau Shcharbachenia , Aliaksandr Kazubouski , cox Piotr Piatrynich ) 2013 : (Luca Parlato , Vincenzo Abbagnale , cox Enrico D'Aniello ) 2014 : (Eric Murray , Hamish Bond , cox Caleb Shepherd ) 2015 : (Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell , Matthew Tarrant , cox Henry Fieldman ) 2016 : (Oliver Cook , Callum McBrierty , cox Henry Fieldman ) 2017 : (Adrián Juhász , Béla Simon , cox Andrea Vanda Kolláth )
1962 : (Dieter Bender , Günther Zumkeller ) 1966 : (Peter Kremtz , Roland Göhler ) 1970 : (Peter Gorny , Werner Klatt ) 1974 : (Bernd Landvoigt , Jörg Landvoigt ) 1975 : (Bernd Landvoigt , Jörg Landvoigt ) 1977 : (Aleksandr Kulagin , Vitaliy Eliseyev ) 1978 : (Bernd Landvoigt , Jörg Landvoigt ) 1979 : (Bernd Landvoigt , Jörg Landvoigt ) 1981 : (Yuriy Pimenov , Nikolay Pimenov ) 1982 : (Hans Magnus Grepperud , Sverre Løken ) 1983 : (Carl Ertel , Ulf Sauerbrey ) 1985 : (Nikolay Pimenov , Yuriy Pimenov ) 1986 : (Yuriy Pimenov , Nikolay Pimenov ) 1987 : (Andy Holmes , Steve Redgrave ) 1989 : (Thomas Jung , Uwe Kellner ) 1990 : (Thomas Jung , Uwe Kellner ) 1991 : (Steve Redgrave , Matthew Pinsent ) 1993 : (Matthew Pinsent , Steve Redgrave ) 1994 : (Matthew Pinsent , Steve Redgrave ) 1995 : (Matthew Pinsent , Steve Redgrave ) 1997 : (Michel Andrieux , Jean-Christophe Rolland ) 1998 : (Detlef Kirchhoff , Robert Sens ) 1999 : (Drew Ginn , James Tomkins ) 2001 : (James Cracknell , Matthew Pinsent ) 2002 : (James Cracknell , Matthew Pinsent ) 2003 : (Drew Ginn , James Tomkins ) 2005 : (Nathan Twaddle , George Bridgewater ) 2006 : (Drew Ginn , Duncan Free ) 2007 : (Drew Ginn , Duncan Free ) 2009 : (Eric Murray , Hamish Bond ) 2010 : (Eric Murray , Hamish Bond ) 2011 : (Eric Murray , Hamish Bond ) 2013 : (Eric Murray , Hamish Bond ) 2014 : (Eric Murray , Hamish Bond ) 2015 : (Eric Murray , Hamish Bond ) 2017 : (Matteo Lodo , Giuseppe Vicino ) 2018 : (Martin Sinković , Valent Sinković ) 2019 : (Martin Sinković , Valent Sinković ) 2022 : (Marius Cozmiuc , Sergiu Bejan ) 2023 : (Roman Röösli , Andrin Gulich )