Kieran West

Kieran Martin West (born 18 September 1977 West was educated at Dulwich College, in south-east London, before going to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1995, to study for a BA in Economics and Land Economy, followed by a PGCE in Mathematics three years later. He won the National Rowing Championships in a single scull at his age category when 15,

The Boat Race For his first two years at Cambridge West rehabilitated himself back into a boat, finally rowing again in spring 1997. After a term of rowing for his college in the May Bumps he rowed in the Cambridge Goldie crew in the 1998 Boat Race coxed by Olympian Suzie Ellis, losing to Isis by two and a third lengths.

West represented Great Britain for the first time in 1998, and made the Cambridge Blue Boat in 1999,

Sporting achievements In the course of his rowing career West won every major international and domestic rowing event: the Olympic Games, the World Rowing Championships, the Rowing World Cup, the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, the Head of the River Race, the Head of the River Fours, and he came out of retirement in 2008 to win the Visitors' Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, in a composite crew representing Imperial College London and Kingston Rowing Club. a former student at Newnham College, Cambridge, from South Africa. The following month, he started work at McKinsey & Co. in London, where he was employed for eight years. He now works in private healthcare. The couple lives in Buckinghamshire and has two daughters.

Sporting achievements

Olympic Games 2004 Athens – 9th, Eight 2000 Sydney – Gold, Eight

World Championships 2006 Eton – 5th, Eight 2005 Gifu – 4th, Eight 2003 Milan – Silver, Coxed Four 2002 Seville – Gold, Coxed Four 1999 St. Catharines – Silver, Eight

The Boat Race 2007 – Won 2006 – Lost 2001 – Won (President) 1999 – Won