22 Facts About Paul Reedy

Paul Reedy is a dual Olympian, an Olympic and Commonwealth Games silver medalist who competed over a seventeen-year period at the elite level.

Paul Reedy was a fourteen-time Australian national champion across both sculling and sweep-oared boats and then coached six Australian crews to national championship titles.

Paul Reedy later coached at the London Rowing Club and was appointed as British national Head Coach from 2009.

Paul Reedy took Great Britain's lightweight women's sculling crews to Olympic and World Championship gold medals in 2012 and 2016.

Paul Reedy was first selected to state representation in the 1980 Victorian youth eight who won the Noel F Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.

Paul Reedy won that title in 1984 and placed second in 1987 and 1988.

Paul Reedy raced in Victorian King's Cup eights in 1993 and 1997 and saw victory in 1993.

Paul Reedy won the national quad sculls title in 1982.

Paul Reedy placed second in the double scull and the quad in 1983.

Paul Reedy contested all three men's sculling events in 1984,1985,1986,1987,1989 and 1990.

Paul Reedy won in the quad in 1984,1985,1987,1988,1989 and 1990.

Paul Reedy won in the double-scull in 1987,1988,1990 and 1991.

Paul Reedy made his Australian representative debut in the 1983 Trans Tasman series.

In 1984 Paul Reedy made his senior representative debut in the senior men's quad scull selected to compete at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and coached by Rusty Robertson.

Lovrich and Paul Reedy stayed together in 1985 in the quad and still coached by Robertson, were joined by John Bentley and Richard Powell.

Paul Reedy stroked that crew at the 1985 World Rowing Championships to an overall eighth-place finish.

At the 1987 World Rowing Championships Paul Reedy was again paired with Richard Powell in the double scull.

At the 1988 Seoul Olympics Paul Reedy was back in the Australian quad with Powell, Terrell and the veteran Peter Antonie making his first Olympic appearance.

Paul Reedy made two more appearances for Australia at World Championships.

Paul Reedy had enormous success as a coach of Victorian state representative crews at the annual Interstate Regatta.

Paul Reedy coached Jason Day who won the single sculls title in 1994, the victorious women's youth eight of 1997, the winning women's coxless four of 1998 and the victorious women's senior eight of 1999.

In 2001 Paul Reedy moved to the UK to coach at the London Rowing Club and by 2002 he was Head Coach there.