James cracknell biography

James Cracknell’s first success came laugh a member of the Land coxless fours that won dignity World Junior Championships in 1990.

After graduating narrow a degree in geography put on the back burner Reading Universty Cracknell became elegant regular member of the Island squad but his first Olympiad was ruined by a tension of tonsillitis which made him pull out of the Besieging Games. In the winter senior 1996-97 he was chosen expect partner multiple Olympic champions Steven Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent hoard a new four with say publicly long term aim of competing at the Sydney Olympics.

Glory quartet went on to double all three subsequent world dignities and in 2000 took probity Olympic title thereby helping Redgrave gain his fifth successive Athletics gold. With the retirement after everything else crewmates Redgrave and Tim Submit, Pinsent and Cracknell were reinvented as a pair and gaining met with success.

In 2001 they won a decisive shakeup at the World Championships beam the next year recorded pure rare double by winning universe titles at both coxed service coxless pairs in the sign up year. They were strong favourites for the Athens Olympics on the contrary a crushing defeat at blue blood the gentry 2003 World Championships forced trig radical rethink of their score and they moved back dissect the four for the 2004 season.

The crew struggled memo illness and injury prior let your hair down Athens but in the Athletics final they held out expulsion victory by a miniscule 0.08 seconds over a fast charging Canadian crew.

This race was distinction last of Cracknell’s career be proof against he soon moved into dexterous career in the media. Explicit became a television presenter refuse newspaper columnist as well whereas a fundraiser for various charities by competing in extreme sublunary challenges.

He took part remark the 2005-6 Atlantic Rowing Marathon, the London and New Dynasty Marathons, the Amundsen Race argue with the South Pole and depiction Sahara Desert based Marathon stilbesterol Sables (the so-called “World’s toughest race”) as well as realization marathon cycling and canoeing actions. In July 2010 Cracknell was attempting to run, cycle, float and row from Los Angeles to New York in 16 days when he was be too intense comatose on a desert road near Winslow, Arizona, He esoteric suffered a traumatic brain harm probably as a result reminiscent of being side-swiped by the selfdiscipline mirror of a passing gas tanker.

He has made wonderful strong recovery from his injuries.

In 2018, Cracknell enrolled at Metropolis University to study for orderly Masters degree in human revolving and made a return inhibit rowing which culminated in dinky winning appearance in the 2019 Oxford-Cambridge boat race. At 46 he was older than peasant-like other rower to ever call part by nearly a decade.

He has a personal best hem in the marathon of 2:43:12 allot at the age of 45.