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Peter Haining (rower)

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Peter Haining
Personal information
NationalityScottish
Born (1962-04-03) 3 April 1962 (age 62)
Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire
Sport
ClubNCRA
Auriol Kensington RC
Medal record
Rowing
Representing  Great Britain
World Rowing Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 Račice Lwt single scull
Gold medal – first place 1994 Indianapolis Lwt single scull
Gold medal – first place 1995 Tampere Lwt single scull
Silver medal – second place 1986 Nottingham Lwt coxless four
Silver medal – second place 1987 Copenhagen Lwt coxless four
Silver medal – second place 2000 Zagreb Lwt coxless pair
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Tasmania Lwt eight
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1986 Edinburgh Lwt coxless four

Peter Moir Haining (born 3 April 1962) is a Scottish-born rower and three-time World Lightweight Sculling Champion who competed for Great Britain and England.

Founding Director of the Scottish institute of sport with Alaister Grey as chairman and seconded to the formation of the English institute of sport. Member of the American and British project.

Biography

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Haining was born at Dumbarton, Scotland, the son of Jackie and Betty Haining.[1] His father and sister were rowers, and he learnt to row at Loch Lomond Rowing Club.[2] He attended Levenvale Primary School and Vale of Leven Academy and left school to start apprenticeship as painter and decorator, but as international level rowing in the UK at the time was centred on London he went south to join London Rowing Club.[1]

In 1984 he went to Nottingham to the National lightweight squad after being impressed by a Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association four at Henley.[1] His first international success came in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, where the GB lightweight four, rowing as England, won gold.[3] Haining would never row for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.[4][5] He also won two silver medals at the World Rowing Championships in the lightweight coxless four in 1986 and 1987 and bronze in the lightweight eight in 1990.

He was part of the coxless pairs crew, with Christopher Bates, that won the national title rowing for Nottinghamshire County Rowing Association, at the 1988 National Rowing Championships[6] and was a member of the crew that won the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta in 1989 on a rerow. In 1990 when he was persistently late for training in the eight, his coach pushed him into single sculling.[1]

Although a lightweight rower, Haining competed for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, in the unplaced quadruple scull.[7] He was then World Champion in lightweight single sculls in 1993,[8] 1994 and 1995. Rowing for Auriol Kensington Rowing Club, he won the Wingfield Sculls in 1994, 1995, and 1996[9] and competed in the single scull at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing 11th overall, rather than competing in one of the lightweight events introduced at that games.[7]

Haining was runner up to Greg Searle in the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1997[10] and won a silver medal at the World Championships lightweight coxless pairs in 1998. In 2000 he won the Wingfield Sculls again. His last international appearance before retiring was in the GB lightweight eight at the World Rowing Championships in 2002.

In 2005 Haining joined Richard Spratley as coach at Oxford Brookes University Boat Club [11] where he was responsible for training all crews including that winning The Temple Challenge Cup in 2006.[12]

For a period around 2010 Haining coached at Lady Margaret Hall Boat Club.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Christopher Dodd The Lightweight Champion of Champions British Rowing Almanack 1996
  2. ^ "Loch Lomond Rowing Club". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. ^ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
  4. ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  5. ^ "Peter Haining". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  6. ^ ""For the Record." Times, 18 July 1988, p. 35". Times Digital Archives.
  7. ^ a b "Peter Haining Bio, Stats, and Results". Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  8. ^ Hugh Matheson Rowing:Haining digs deep to mine gold: Britain's Olympic and world champions pull confidently to victory The Independent Monday, 12 July 1993
  9. ^ Wingfield Sculls Record of Races
  10. ^ "HRR 1946–2000". Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  11. ^ "Rowing club — Oxford Brookes University". Archived from the original on 13 March 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
  12. ^ Regatta, Henley Royal. "Results". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  13. ^ "LMHBC". LMHBC. Retrieved 17 August 2017.