THE SPORT OF ROWING FISA 2000 Video Great Britain Men’s Coxless-Pair 2000 Olympic Fourth Place, Penrith Stroke Greg Searle 6’5” 196cm 220lb. 100kg, Bow Ed Coode 6’4” 193cm 212lb. 96kg -5°, +30° to -15°, 0-9, 0-10, 0-10 Classical Technique Concurrent Schubschlag Greg Searle, with his older brother Jonny and coxswain Garry Herbert, had won Coxed-Pairs Olympic Gold in 1992, defeating Redgrave and Pinsent in the ARA Pairs Trials and overtaking the peerless Abbagnales in the final strokes on Lago de Bañolas.6940 The Searle brothers won again in the at coxed-pairs the 1993 World Championships, but after their event was eliminated from the Olympic schedule, they switched to the coxless-fours. In 1987, Jonny Searle, Rupert Obholze, Tim Foster and Toby Hessian had won Gold in the coxless-fours at the Junior World Championships. In 1994 the boat, put back together with Greg in place of Hessian, won Bronze in 1994, Silver in 1995, and they were frustrated to win only Bronze at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics behind the Oarsome Foursome6941 and the French. Jonny retired after Atlanta, and Sydney in 2000 would be Greg’s last race.6942 He 6940 See Chapter 133. 6941 See Chapter 131. 6942 He later unretired. was determined to make the most of it. He held the world record for 2,000 meters on the ergometer, and in 1997, he switched to a single for Harry Mahon and won Bronze.6943 In the run-up to 1999, Tim Foster injured his back, with Ed Coode taking his place in the World Champion British Coxless-Four. After recuperating, Foster rowed 7 in the Silver Medal 1999 Eight. Prior to 2000, Grobler had six candidates for the four rowing three pairs: Redgrave and Pinsent, Foster and Cracknell, and Coode and Searle. On April 11, 2000 at Holme Pierrepont, twenty-two oarsmen entered the ARA Pairs Trials to determine who would man the British Olympic four, pair and eight. In the final, Foster and Cracknell dominated by two lengths over Coode and Searle, with Pinsent and Redgrave sprinting up from fifth to third in the last 250 meters. The result confirmed the winners as the boatmates of Redgrave and Pinsent in the coxless-four, but Jürgen was pleased with the speed of Coode and Searle and selected 6943 See Chapter 133. 1934
