 Lieutenant Pete Reed is a member of the Great Britain rowing team and double World Champion in the flagship coxless four,sponsored by Camelot. In his short career he has progressed to the highest level of the sport and is one of Britain’s brightest Olympic hopes.
In 2000, whilst training as a Royal Naval officer on board HMS Exeter, Pete used an ergo for the first time - and promptly posted the fastest time in the Royal Navy’s annual fleet-wide fitness competition. He continued to row at the University of the West of England, under coach Fred Smallbone, whilst studying to become a naval engineer and became Boat Club President in 2002.
In 2003, Pete went to the University of Oxford for a two-year MSc in engineering. During this time, he trained at the Oxford University Boat Club, where he earned the nickname "The Commander". He was selected in both years to race against Cambridge in the annual Boat Race. Defeat in 2004 was followed by victory in 2005, in the much-documented "heaviest Boat Race crew of all time".
In 2005, Pete and his Oxford strokeman, Andy Triggs Hodge won GB pairs trials, and were selected by coach Jürgen Gröbler to row alongside Alex Partridge and Steve Williams MBE, in the new GB coxless four.
Unbeaten for 27 consecutive races until the Lucerne World Cup in 2007, the British four won gold at the World Championships in 2005 and 2006. Pete recently posted the largest recorded lung capacity at 11.68 litres and is continuing his training to represent Great Britain in the coxless four at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. |
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