Steve williams rower biography of albert

British olympic rowing gold medalists

A graduate of Oxford Brookes University, Steve Williams first appeared on the international rowing scene as a member of the British coxless pair in and reached the World Championship final in that event in his first two years on the national team. He was overlooked by the selectors for a place at the Olympics but was instead chosen for the World Championships, which is held only for non-Olympic classes in the year of an Olympic Games, and won his first world title as part of the coxed four.

In the re-shuffle of the team following Sydney, Williams was placed in the coxed four and the newly formed crew justified the faith given to them by winning the World Championship at their first attempt in The four were silver medal winners in and but in early the crew was completely revamped to allow the inclusion of Olympic champions Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell with only Williams retaining his seat, After a summer blighted by illness and injury the quartet recovered to win Olympic gold in Athens.

In the four was once again overhauled and again it was Williams who was the only member to retain his place in the crew. The change of personnel seemed to have little effect and world titles followed in both and The quartet suffered a surprise defeat in the World Championship but rebounded to retain their Olympic title in Beijing. After taking a year away from the water Williams decided to retire from competition but retained an adventurous spirit.

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