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Matthew Pinsent, CBE, (born October 10, 1970) is a British rowing champion, four-times Olympic gold medallist.Pinsent was born in Holt, Norfolk, England, and began rowing at Eton College. After rowing at the World Junior Championships in 1987, he was selected in 1990 to row with Steve Redgrave in the coxless pair. This involved taking a year out of his undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford (he studied Geography at St. Catherine's College). It was the beginning of a long partnership, and the pair won the World Championships in 1991, and at the Olympic Games in 1992, 1996 and as part of a coxless four with James Cracknell and Tim Foster in 2000.
Pinsent and Cracknell then formed a men's coxless pair and won the coxless and coxed pairs (with Neil Chugani coxing) in the 2001 World Championships and the coxless pair in 2002, but a disappointing 2003 season that saw his first World Championships defeat since 1991 saw them shifted into the men's coxless four for 2004, in particular the Athens 2004 Olympics, Pinsent's fourth Olympic Games. Pinsent stroked the boat, with Cracknell, Ed Coode and Steve Williams. In a close race with world Champions Canada, they again won gold.
Pinsent was elected to the International Olympic Committee's Athletics Commission in 2001, replacing Jan Zelezny. In 2004, at the Athens Olympics, Pinsent failed to secure re-election to the post, being replaced by Zelezny.
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