Sholto Carnegie

Sholto Hector Hawkshaw Carnegie (born 28 February 1995) is a British representative rower. He is an Olympic and a two-time world champion in the Great Britain men's eight.

University and club rowing Raised in Oxford and educated at Cherwell School, Carnegie took up rowing aged 13 at the City of Oxford Rowing Club.

Back in England his club rowing has continued from Leander. In 2022, he won the Grand Challenge Cup (the blue riband event at the Henley Royal Regatta) in the four seat of a composite Leander/Oxford Brookes crew. In 2023 again in Leander Club colours, he was at four in the Leander/Oxford Brookes eight for another Grand Challenge Cup victory.

Representative career Carnegie was first selected to representative honours as a sculler, racing for Great Britain at the 2013 Junior World Rowing Championships in a double scull to a fifth placing. He was selected for the 2014 U23 World Rowing Championships in a quad scull which finished in overall 13th place. then that same crew won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. then took gold at the World Rowing Cup II. At the Tokyo Olympic regatta they won their heat, comfortably beating the eventual bronze medallists Italy. In the Olympic final they were in medal contention at each mark but were run down by the Italians in the last 500m and finished in fourth place. Carnegie in the British eight went on to win gold and a world championship title at the 2022 World Rowing Championships in Račice. In 2023 Carnegie won a second successive world championship in the men's eight at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade.

He won a gold medal as part of the Great Britain eight at the 2024 Summer Olympics.