Background
Matthew was born in Crewe, Cheshire, and grew up in the town of Northwich, attending Hartford High School and gaining his A Levels at Street Nicholas Catholic High School.
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Matthew Langridge
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Junior He started rowing at Northwich Rowing Club being coached by Paul Rafferty. At his first Junior World Rowing Championships in Zagreb, Croatia in 2000 he narrowly missed out on a medal coming fourth in the double scull with Pete Wells of Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham. A few weeks earlier they had lost out in the final of the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, to the Danish double of Kalizan and Samuelsen.
Later that year, he broke the British Indoor Rowing record for 2,000m in the J18 category, posting a time of 5 minutes and 59 seconds.
Senior In the 2008 Summer Olympics he was selected to compete in the Men"s Eight in Beijing. At the Beijing Olympics he rowed in the 7 seat of the Men"s Eight, qualifying for the final in the fastest time of either heat, 1.8 seconds ahead of the pre-games favourites, Canada.
In the final, despite a late charge from Great Britain, the eight was edged out by Canada, and Matthew could only take home a Silver Meda Olympics 2012 London - BRONZE, Eight, (2) World Championships World Cups Junior World Championships Great Britain Rowing Team Senior Trials.
Achievements
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2012 London - BRONZE, Eight, (2) 2008 Beijing – SILVER, Eight (7) 2004 Athens – 7th, Double (stroke) 2011 Bled - Gold, Men"s Four 2010 Lake Karapiro - 4th, Men"s Four 2009 Poznań - Gold, Men"s Four 2007 Munich – Bronze, Coxless Pair (stroke) 2008 Poznań – Gold, Eight (7) 2008 Lucerne – Bronze, Eight (3) 2008 Munich – Silver, Eight (3) 2007 Amsterdam – Gold, Eight (7) 2007 Linz – Gold, Coxless Pair (stroke) 2001 Duisburg – Gold, Single Scull 2011 6th, Coxless Pair.
