Constantine Louloudis
.jpg) Louloudis at The Boat Races 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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15 September 1991 London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Trinity College Boat Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Oxford University Boat Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Constantine Michael Louloudis (born 15 September 1991) is a Greek-British rower. He is a dual Olympian, two time Olympic medal winner and two time world champion.
Personal life
His father is Greek and comes from the island of Andros.[1] His mother Madeleine is the youngest daughter of the 20th Viscount Dillon and is a Lady-in-Waiting to The Princess Royal.[2]
He was a King's Scholar at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire. He then studied Classics at Trinity College, Oxford,[3] and graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[4]
Rowing career
He learned to row at Eton and in 2009 stroked the Eton VIII that won at Henley Royal Regatta, the National Schools Regatta and the Schools' Head.[5]
He was in the six seat of the winning Oxford Blue boat at the 2011 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.[6] Later in 2011, he won the Men's Pairs, with George Nash, at the FISA World Rowing Under 23 Championships on the Bosbaan on 24 July 2011 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[7]
He took a year out of his studies to train for and compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the men's eight.[8][9][3] Louloudis then returned to his Oxford studies, rowing in the winning eights of a second and third Boat Race in 2013 and 2014,[10] before returning to the British eight, which he stroked to a gold medal at the 2014 World Rowing Championships. The next year he won a final Boat Race as president of Oxford University Boat Club.
At the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Louloudis rounded off his medal collection by stroking the GB men's 4- to gold, the fifth consecutive time a British crew had won the event.[11]
References
- ↑ "Constantine the Great". www.row-n.com. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ↑ "The Peerage". thepeerage. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- 1 2 "Bronze medal for Trinity's Louloudis". Oxford student.com. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ↑ "Constantine Louloudis". University of Oxford. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ↑ "Loulou is the stroke of genius we need: Youngster poised to lead eights". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ↑ "Oxford surge to Boat Race victory". 26 March 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2016 – via bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "Team GB Olympic Athlete Search - British Olympic Athlete Profiles". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
- ↑ "Constantine Louloudis Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ↑ "Constantine Louloudis". London 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ↑ Higginson, Marc (6 April 2014). "Boat Race 2014: Oxford emphatically beat Cambridge". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- ↑ "Events - worldrowing.com". Retrieved 14 August 2016.