Colin Smith

Colin was selected in the men's eight for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and won a silver medal.
 
Colin won bronze in the pair at the 2007 World Championships in Munich after a successful season which saw him win gold in the pair at the first World Cup and in the eight at the second. At the 2008 GB Rowing Senior Trials he finished 2nd in the pair with Tom James. He raced in the eight in the 2008 World Cup series finishing 2nd in Munich and 1st in Poznan.

Colin came to live in the UK from Zimbabwe when he was still at school and gained his first GB vest as a Junior in 2001 when he raced in the coxed four.

A winner of the Fawley Challenge Cup at Henley in 2000 and the Wyfold Challenge Cup in 2001 he was also national junior champion J16 and J18, single scull champion in 2000 and J18 quadruple scull champion, J18 in 2002.

In 2002 Colin was a Commonwealth Championships gold medallist in the men's coxed four and the following year he was seventh in the men's pair at the World U23 Championships and winner of the U23 men's pair title at the Duisburg International Regatta.

A finalist in the Diamonds at Henley Royal Regatta, in the summer of 2004 he went on to win a silver medal in the men’s single at the World U23 Championships, his first medal for Great Britain.

In 2005 he won the B Final of the men’s single at the GB Rowing Senior Trials and raced in the single at the Eton World Cup Regatta as well as at the World Championships in Japan, where he finished 12th.

Earlier in the 2005 season Colin finished 4th in the double scull at the World Rowing U23 Championships.

In 2006 Colin raced in the pair. The boat was a late selection because of academic pressures. Racing with Tom James they had a dramatic race at the Lucerne World Cup Regatta narrowly losing to the New Zealand World Champions, to take silver. At the World Championships in Eton they qualified for the A final finishing 6th.

Colin won two blues at Oxford University, the first in 2004 and then in the winning crew in 2006.

Colin is Lottery Funded through UK Sport.