Alistair Potts
Alistair Potts
Alistair Potts in 1990
Sport Rowing
Alistair James Potts (born 7 July 1971) is a former British World Champion cox .
Potts was born in Chertsey , Surrey. He was educated at Winchester College and the University of Edinburgh , where he studied architectural history . He coxed the men's four, men's lightweight eight and women's eight at the 1994 Commonwealth Regatta representing Scotland . After going up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge , at the end of 1994, he was winning coxswain in the record-breaking CUWBC crew at the 1995 Women's Boat Race . This was quickly followed by coxing Trinity Hall BC to the headship in the May Bumps . In 1996 Potts was selected for Goldie, which beat Isis by 11 lengths in a then record time. That year, he also won the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta with CUBC (rowing as Goldie Boat Club). In 1998 he steered the record-breaking Cambridge Blue Boat in the Boat Race .
Potts won a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships at St. Catharines , Canada in the coxed four with Jonny Searle , Jonny Singfield , Rick Dunn and Graham Smith . Gold came in 2000 at Zagreb in the same boat class with Dunn, Smith and Toby Garbett and Steve Williams . This was the first time Great Britain had won the coxed four at the World Rowing Championships since its inception. That same crew also won the Prince Philip Challenge Cup at Henley.
Potts' rowing career finished in 2000 coinciding with the completion of his doctoral thesis on "The Development of the Playhouse in Seventeenth-Century London".[ 1] Neighbours [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Achievements
World championships
2000 – Gold, Coxed Four (with Steve Williams, Rick Dunn, Toby Garbett, Graham Smith)
1999 – Silver, Coxed Four (with Jonny Singfield, Jonny Searle, Rick Dunn, Graham Smith)
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