Patrick Sweeney (rowing)
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Full name | Patrick John Sweeney | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1952-08-12) 12 August 1952 (age 72) London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Leander Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Patrick John Sweeney (born 12 August 1952) is a retired coxswain for Great Britain's rowing team. Sweeney competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Rowing career
Sweeney won the coxed fours with Christopher Pierce, Hugh Matheson, Dick Findlay and Alan Almand, rowing for a Tideway Scullers and Leander composite, at the inaugural 1972 National Rowing Championships.[1] The winning crew were then selected to represent Great Britain at the 1972 Olympics, Rooney Massara replaced Findlay in the men's coxed four event where the crew finished in tenth place after being knocked out in the semi-finals.[2]
At the 1974 World Rowing Championships he coxed the eight to silver,[3] a feat that was repeated at the 1976 Olympics when Sweeney coxed the eight during the 1976 Olympic rowing event. In between he was part of the coxed four at the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, the four just missed out on a medal finishing in fourth place in the A final.[4]
In 1977 he won his first gold medal at the 1977[5][2] and another gold medal was secured during the 1986 World Rowing Championships when he coxed Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes in the coxed pairs. This crew then won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the men's coxed pair.[2]
Coaching
Sweeney is also a rowing coach. He has coached the British National Team at World Championships and Olympics. Also at the Burnaby Lake Aquatic Center in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He has served as head coach and director of training for the Belgian National Rowing team. In addition, he has coached several United States collegiate women's teams and has won four national collegiate titles. Sweeney currently coaches the Kansas State University women's team.
Achievements
- Olympic medals: 1 silver, 1 bronze
- World Championship medals: 2 gold, 2 silver
Olympic Games
- 1988 – Bronze, coxed pair (with Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes)
- 1976 – Silver, eight
World Championships
- 1987 – Silver, coxed pair (with Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes)
- 1986 – Gold, coxed pairs (with Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes)
- 1977 – Gold, men's lightweight eight
- 1974 – Silver men's eight
References
- ^ ""Rowing." Times, 22 July 1972, p. 6". The Times. 22 July 1972. p. 6.
- ^ a b c "Biographical information". Olympedia.
- ^ Railton, Jim (9 September 1974). "Railton, Jim. "British eight sprint to silver medal." Times, 9 Sept. 1974, p. 7". The Times. p. 7.
- ^ Railton, Jim (1 September 1975). "Rowing". The Times. p. 7 – via Times Digital Archives.
- ^ Railton, Jim (29 August 1977). "Rowing". The Times. p. 11 – via Times Digital Archives.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Patrick Sweeney". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
External links
- Patrick SWEENEY at World Rowing
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- 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)