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Peter Reed - Olympics

Olympic Selection Trials, Mar 2008
Olympic Selection Trials, Mar 2008

Pete Reed is a member of the Great Britain rowing squad and is double World Champion in the flagship coxless four.

Despite only taking up rowing in his second year of university, after completing officer training in the Royal Navy, he reached the top of his sport just three years later, winning senior trials and replacing James Cracknell following his retirement from the Camelot-sponsored lead boat.

See the following link for more details: www.petereed.co.uk

  • 9th Apr 2009
    The Rise and Rise of the Navy's Olympic Champion
    As a Royal Navy Lieutenant and an Olympic Gold Medallist, life has been rather interesting for Pete Reed since he and his three team mates rowed to victory in Beijing in August 2008. Report by Leigh Morrison.
  • 7th Nov 2008
    Reed to Continue to London 2012
    2008 Olympic gold medallist Peter Reed yesterday became the first member of Britain's gold medal-winning four to announce publicly that he will continue in the sport towards the Olympic Games of London 2012.
  • 28th Aug 2008
    Beijing Celebrations, Aug 2008
    I hope you enjoyed the race! I’ve spoken to lots of people since then that have told me they were on the edge of their seats and screaming at the television, so I hope you’ve recovered from the shock and thanks for the help!
  • 28th Aug 2008
    "I owe my Gold to the Royal Navy"
    As Lieutenant Pete Reed crossed the finish line at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an immense sense of relief and extreme joy came over him as he realised that he and his team mates had just secured the Gold Medal for Britain in the Men's Four Rowing Final.
  • 17th Jul 2008
    High Altitude Training Camp, July 2008
    For the last 3 weeks, I have been at over 2000m above sea level in a remote location in the Austrian Alps with my coach and crew. We come here once a year in the summer to train our bodies harder than at any other point in the season. This is called a ‘work camp’.
  • 27th May 2008
    Selected for the first World Cup, Apr 2008
    The usual training venue was today overcrowded with journalists, photographers and the BBC all wanting to hear David Tanner (International Manager) announce the World Cup crews for the first big race of the season next week. My crew will again be the coxless four, but with a new look:
  • 1st May 2008
    The World Cup Season, May 2008.
    It is difficult to know whether or not this year has flown by. On the one hand, the weeks and months through the tough winter training dragged on and on like never before, with the Olympic goal like a bull’s-eye target too distant to make out. On the other hand, we are now right in the middle of the World Cup season just 10 weeks before the Olympic final in August.
  • 1st Apr 2008
    Olympic Selection Trials, Mar 2008
    After all the hours and miles of training through the winter and all those tough mental times on training camps, the team comes together every year for the second biggest race of the season: Final Trials.
  • 5th Mar 2008
    Rowing Training Camp, Feb 2008
    This month kicked off with the feared 5000m test on the rowing machine. It is a formidable challenge that we have been building up to for a few weeks.
  • 31st Jan 2008
    The Olympic Year, Jan 2008
    Even through the festive period, the training never stopped. The relentless continuation of session after session is even more mentally demanding when you are at home with your family for a week, but I was certain that the main opposition would be doing the miles. I just needed to be tougher than them.
  • 8th Jan 2008
    Peter Reed's Winter Rowing Trials, December 2007
    From the start of December there seemed to be a little bit more pressure on us than in the last two months.
  • 19th Nov 2007
    Going For Gold: Navy Olympic Hopeful Gets Down To Business
    In August 2008 the eyes of the world will be on Beijing as the 29th Olympic Games get underway. For one Royal Navy officer, being there will be the realisation of a lifetime ambition.
  • 23rd Apr 2007
    Peter Reed Excels In National Trials
    SLt Peter Reed has started the 2007 season where he left off last year.
  • 17th Apr 2007
    Life with Great Britain's National Rowing Squad
    Royal Navy Sub Lieutenant Pete Reed and his three crewmates Andrew Triggs Hodge, Alex Partridge and Steve Williams have not lost a single international race since they formed the new British Coxless Four after the Athens Olympics in 2004.