Paul Reedy

Paul Reedy (born 21 January 1961 in Robinvale, Victoria) is an Australian former rower. He is a dual Olympian, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games silver medalist who competed over a seventeen-year period at the elite level. He was a fourteen-time Australian national champion across both sculling and sweep-oared boats and then coached six Australian crews to national championship titles. He later coached at the London Rowing Club and was appointed as British national Head Coach from 2009. He took Great Britain's lightweight women's sculling crews to Olympic and World Championship gold medals in 2012 and 2016.

Club and state rowing Reedy's senior rowing was done from the Melbourne University Boat Club excepting 1986 when he rowed from and raced for the Balmain Rowing Club in Sydney.

In 1984, from 1987 to 1989 and in 1996 he was selected as the Victorian single sculls representative to contest the President's Cup in the Interstate Regatta. He won that title in 1984 and placed second in 1987 and 1988. He contested all three men's sculling events in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 and 1990. He won in the quad in 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1990. He also won in the double-scull in 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1991. In 1986 he was living in Sydney and represented the Balmain Rowing Club in the three events he raced that year.

International representative rowing Reedy made his Australian representative debut in the 1983 Trans Tasman series. In a double scull with Tony Lorich he won all of the four matches races in the series against New Zealand.

Lovrich and Reedy stayed together in 1985 in the quad and still coached by Robertson, were joined by John Bentley and Richard Powell. Reedy stroked that crew at the 1985 World Rowing Championships to an overall eighth-place finish. The following year at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Reedy competed in Australia's double scull with Brenton Terrell and won the silver medal. In 2009 he was appointed as Head Coach of Great Britain's national rowing team. He coach Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland to gold in a lightweight double scull at the London 2012 Olympics; the 2016 World Champion British women's lightweight quad scull; and world championship medalists Hester Goodsell and Charlotte Taylor.