Patrick Sweeney (rowing)

Patrick John Sweeney (born 12 August 1952) is a coxswain for Great Britain's rowing team. Sweeney won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics with Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes, and a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics as part of the British men's eight team. In addition, Sweeney won gold medals at the 1977 and 1986 World Rowing Championships and silver medals at the 1974 and 1986 World Championships.

Patrick Sweeney

Personal information

Born

12 August 1952

Height

157 cm (5 ft 2 in)

Weight

50 kg (110 lb)

Sport

Rowing

Medal record

Men's rowing

Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	Eight
	1988 Seoul	Coxed pair
World Rowing Championships
	1977 Amsterdam	Lwt eight
	1986 Nottingham	Coxed pair
	1974 Lucerne	Eight
	1987 Copenhagen	Coxed pair

Sweeney is also a rowing coach. He has coached at the Burnaby Lake Aquatic Center in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He also has served as head coach and director of training for the Belgian National Rowing team. In addition, he has coached several United States collegiate women's teams and has won four national collegiate titles. Sweeney currently coaches the Kansas State University women's team.

Achievements

Olympic medals: 1 silver, 1 bronze
World Championship medals: 2 gold, 2 silver

Olympic Games

1988 – Bronze, coxed pair (with Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes)
1976 – Silver, eight

World Championships

1987 – Silver, coxed pair (with Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes)
1986 – Gold, coxed pairs (with Steve Redgrave and Andy Holmes)
1977 – Gold, men's eight
1974 – Silver men's eight

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Patrick Sweeney". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2018.

External links

Patrick SWEENEY at FISA WorldRowing.com

World champions – Men's coxed pair

1962: (Wolfgang Neuß, Klaus-Günter Jordan, cox Frank Steinhäuser)
1966: (Hadriaan van Nes, Jan van de Graaff, cox Poul de Haan)
1970: (Ștefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura, cox Ladislau Lovrenschi)
1974: (Vladimir Eshinov, Nikolay Ivanov, cox Aleksandr Lukyanov)
1975: (Jörg Lucke, Wolfgang Gunkel, cox Bernd Fritsch)
1977: (Todor Mrankov, Dimitar Yanakiev, cox Stefan Stoykov)
1978: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Olaf Beyer)
1979: (Jürgen Pfeiffer, Gert Uebeler, cox Georg Spohr)
1981: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1982: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1983: (Ullrich Dießner, Thomas Greiner, cox. Andreas Gregor)
1985: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1986: (Andy Holmes, Steve Redgrave, cox. Patrick Sweeney)
1987: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1989: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1990: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1991: (Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, cox Giuseppe Di Capua)
1993: (Jonny Searle, Greg Searle, cox Garry Herbert)
1994: (Igor Boraska, Tihomir Franković, cox Milan Ražov)
1995: (Luca Sartori, Giuliano de Stabile, cox Antonio Cirillo)
1996: (Yannick Schulte, Luc Prevot, cox Christophe Tellier)
1997: (Scott Fentress, Jordan Irving, cox Nicholas Anderson)
1998: (Nick Green, James Tomkins, cox Brett Hayman)
1999: (James Neil, Phil Henry, cox Nicholas Anderson)
2000: (Matt Guerrieri, Kurt Borcherding, cox Nicholas Anderson)
2001: (James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, cox Neil Chugani)
2002: (Lars Krisch, Andreas Werner, cox Claus Müller-Gattermann)
2003: (Matt Rich, Dan Beery, cox Andrew Kelly)
2004: (Mattia Trombetta, Mario Palmisano, cox Luigi Longobardi)
2005: (Hardy Cubasch, Sam Conrad, cox Marc Douez)
2006: (Nikola Stojić, Jovan Popović, cox Ivan Ninković)
2007: (Dawid Paczes, Lukasz Kardas, cox Daniel Trojanowski)
2008: (Gabriel Bergen, James Dunaway, cox Mark Laidlaw)
2009: (Troy Kepper, Henrik Rummel, cox Marcus McElhenney)
2010: (Chris Morgan, Dominic Grimm, cox David Webster)
2011: (Vincenzo Capelli, Pierpaolo Frattini, cox Niccolò Fanchi)
2012: (Stanislau Shcharbachenia, Aliaksandr Kazubouski, cox Piotr Piatrynich)
2013: (Luca Parlato, Vincenzo Abbagnale, cox Enrico D'Aniello)
2014: (Eric Murray, Hamish Bond, cox Caleb Shepherd)
2015: (Nathaniel Reilly-O'Donnell, Matthew Tarrant, cox Henry Fieldman)
2016: (Oliver Cook, Callum McBrierty, cox Henry Fieldman)
2017: (Adrián Juhász, Béla Simon, cox Andrea Vanda Kolláth)

World champions – Lightweight men's eight

FISA championships

1974: (Baldino, Gaynor, Nauman, Harman, Aserlind, Ewing, Feld, Grogan, cox Hartigan)
1975: (Meyer, Lutz, Braun, Maye, Fritsch, Buhren, Lobing, Kerkhoff, cox Neumeister)
1976: (Werner, Zimmer, Büsken, Nentwig, Neubert, Meschede, Huck, Nehmer, cox Sassenbach)
1977: (Read, Stuart-Bennett, George, Simpole, Cusack, Innes, Topolski, Drury, cox Sweeney)
1978: (Simpole, Read, Drury, Downie, Roberts, Zeun, Melvin, French, cox Moynihan)
1979: (Goicoechea, Arteaga, Uriarte, Expósito, Elizalde, Redondo, Puertas, Climent, cox Olasagasti)
1980: (Barratt, Hosking, Downie, Howe, Zeun, Roberts, Read, Simpole, cox Jefferies)
1981: (Knudsen, Jensen, Mølgaard, Højlund, Hansson, Eriksen, Espersen, Fransson, cox Klug-Andersen)
1982: (Valentinis, Torta, Pantano, Tontodonati, R. Borsini, L. Borsini, Castiglioni, Salani, cox Di Capua)
1983: (Moya, Cañete, Génova, Muniesa, Crespo, Briones, Llorente, Elizalde, cox Rojí)
1984: (Mølgaard, Jacobsen, Højlund, Hansson, Christensen, Jensen, Espersen, Kobbernagel, cox Rasmussen)

Official world championships

1985: (Losi, Savoia, Torcellan, Lana, Spremberg, Marostica, Re, Ravasi, cox Di Deco)
1986: (Losi, Savoia, Torcellan, Lana, Spremberg, Gaddi, Re, Ravasi, cox Di Deco)
1987: (Losi, Striani, Torcellan, Lana, Spremberg, Gaddi, Re, Ravasi, cox Zanetti)
1988: (Striani, Re, Spremberg, Losi, Ravasi, Barbaranelli, Bellomo, Torcellan, cox Velotti)
1989: (Barbaranelli, Romanini, Falossi, Fraquelli, Torcellan, Gaddi, Re, Ravasi, cox Lamberti)
1990: (Barbaranelli, Falossi, Gaddi, Ranieri, Ravasi, Re, Romanini, Striani, cox Lamberti)
1991: (Barbaranelli, Cantoni, Gaddi, Marigliano, Ranieri, Ravasi, Re, Romanini, cox Iannuzzi)
1992: (Andersen, Blitskov, Croft, Hansen, Jensen Kollat, Meyer, Poulsen, Vestergaard, cox Sorensen)
1993: (Boyes, Cookson, Fontaine, Hassett, Lay, Peaker, Sommerwil, Thompson, cox Newman)
1994: (Bates, Cox, Ellis, Hessian, Kay, Lemon, McNiven, Smith, cox Deakin)
1995: (Andersen, Bech Jensen, Croft, Glud, Henrichsen, Jensen Kollat, Jensen, Vestergaard, cox Larsen)
1996: (Bech, Edeler, Jenny, Locher, Mielke, Töpfer, Vukelic, Maerz, cox Klotz)
1997: (Balmforth, Berney, Burgess, Isherwood, Mitchell, Richards, Wiseman, Wright, cox Hayman)
1998: (Edeler, Ibielski, Laib, Locher, Rosenberger, Stomporowski, Strauch, Vukelic, cox Kaska)
1999: (Plifka, Kerber, Cashman, Den Besten, Cotter, Ruckman, Tripician, Kammann, cox Salamini)
2000: (Miller, Mack, Cashman, Winkler, Fedyna, Schwartz, Maclaurin, Warner, cox Fien-Helfman)
2001: (Dupy, Péron, Porchier, Bussière, Touron, Bette, Hocdé, Dorfman, cox Lattaignant)
2002: (Scala, Lodigiani, Del Gaudio, Moriconi, Paniccia, Grande, Fraquelli, Pasqualini, cox Di Palma)
2003: (Seibt, Raeder, Drews, Hasse, Borchardt, Schmidt, Hobein, Dahlke, cox Kaska)
2004: (Solforosi, Margat, Saïtta, Pouge, Bussière, Faucheux, Planque, Tilliet, cox Majerus)
2005: (Vlcek, Danesin, Savrie, Goretti, Scala, Moriconi, Del Gaudio, Gabriele, cox Barattolo)
2006: (Scala, Tuccinardi, La Padula, Sancassani, Goretti, Savrie, Vlcek, Gabriele, cox Lenzi)
2007: (van den Broek, Bottema, Blankert, Beemsterboer, Tromp, Greidanus, Snijders, Godschalk, cox Wiersum)
2008: (Carcagno, Bolton, Farrell, Altman, Todd, Daly, Paradiso, Muffelman, cox del Guercio)
2009: (Scala, Riccardi, La Padula, Goretti, Ceccatelli, Gallo, Vlcek, Mascarenhas, cox Lenzi)
2010: (Wisgott, Gerhardt, Lüke, Wichert, J. Kühner, Seibt, Schömann-Finck, M. Kühner, cox Kowert)
2011: (Bertrand, Brown, Tunevitsch, Gibson, Foot, Chisholm, Baker, Purcell, cox Webster)
2012: (M. Schömann-Finck, J. Schömann-Finck, M. Kühner, Schützeberg, Hochbruck, J. Kühner, Seibt, Wichert, cox Sauer)
2013: (Molteni, Amarante, Zaharia, Barbaro, Oppo, Serpico, Schisano, Di Girolamo, cox D'Aniello)
2014: (Franzmann, Barr, Neumann, Wallat, Wisgott, Kilthau, Keßler, Temel, cox Böhm)
2015: (Schad, Barr, Neumann, Roller, Franzmann, Wallat, Mertens, Temel, cox Heinemann)

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