Constantine Louloudis

Constantine Louloudis

Louloudis at The Boat Races 2015
Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	15 September 1991 London, England
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	94 kg (207 lb)
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Sport	Rowing
College team	Trinity College Boat Club
Club	Oxford University Boat Club
Medal record Men's Rowing Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2012 London Eight 2016 Rio de Janeiro Coxless Four World Championships 2014 Amsterdam M8+ 2015 Aiguebelette M8+

Constantine Michael Louloudis (born 15 September 1991) is a Greek-British rower. He is a dual Olympian, two time Olympic medal winner and two time world champion.

Personal life

His father is Greek and comes from the island of Andros.^[1] His mother Madeleine is the youngest daughter of the 20th Viscount Dillon and is a Lady-in-Waiting to The Princess Royal.^[2]

He was a King's Scholar at Eton College, an all-boys public school in Eton, Berkshire. He then studied Classics at Trinity College, Oxford,^[3] and graduated with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.^[4]

Rowing career

He learned to row at Eton and in 2009 stroked the Eton VIII that won at Henley Royal Regatta, the National Schools Regatta and the Schools' Head.^[5]

He was in the six seat of the winning Oxford Blue boat at the 2011 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.^[6] Later in 2011, he won the Men's Pairs, with George Nash, at the FISA World Rowing Under 23 Championships on the Bosbaan on 24 July 2011 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.^[7]

He took a year out of his studies to train for and compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the men's eight.^[8][9][3] Louloudis then returned to his Oxford studies, rowing in the winning eights of a second and third Boat Race in 2013 and 2014,^[10] before returning to the British eight, which he stroked to a gold medal at the 2014 World Rowing Championships. The next year he won a final Boat Race as president of Oxford University Boat Club.

At the 2016 Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Louloudis rounded off his medal collection by stroking the GB men's 4- to gold, the fifth consecutive time a British crew had won the event.^[11]

References

1. "Constantine the Great". www.row-n.com. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
2. "The Peerage". thepeerage. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
3. "Bronze medal for Trinity's Louloudis". Oxford student.com. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
4. "Constantine Louloudis". University of Oxford. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
5. "Loulou is the stroke of genius we need: Youngster poised to lead eights". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
6. "Oxford surge to Boat Race victory". 26 March 2011. Retrieved 14 August 2016 – via bbc.co.uk.
7. "Team GB Olympic Athlete Search - British Olympic Athlete Profiles". Retrieved 14 August 2016.
8. "Constantine Louloudis Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
9. "Constantine Louloudis". London 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
10. Higginson, Marc (6 April 2014). "Boat Race 2014: Oxford emphatically beat Cambridge". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
11. "Events - worldrowing.com". Retrieved 14 August 2016.