Henry Fieldman
Cox // Women's Squad
Date of Birth: 25th Nov 1988 (35 years old)
Club: Leander Club
Height: 162.00
Hometown: Barnes
Henry Fieldman has coxed for the GB Rowing Team at all levels from junior through to the Olympic Games.
Fieldman won two successive World Championship titles in the men’s coxed pair (2015 and 2016) and had the distinction of coxing the only eight to beat Germany during the London Olympiad.
Following the retirement of Olympic gold medal winning cox Phelan Hill, Fieldman took control of the men’s eight through the 2017 season, culminating in a seventh-place finish at the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota-Bradenton.
Still coxing the men’s eight, in 2018, he finished fifth at the Europeans and then took the bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships. In 2019, he won silver at the Europeans and bronze again at the Worlds.
Henry then coxed the eight to gold at the 2021 European Championships and bronze at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
In 2022 he won gold again with the eight at World Cup III, and at the 2023 European Rowing Championships notched up the highly unusual achievement of coxing both of the GB eights, winning gold with the Men’s crew and silver with the Women’s eight. He is the first man to cox a British women’s crew at an international regatta; in 2017 World Rowing removed the requirement that the cox had to be the same sex as their crew.
Henry guided the GB men's coxed pair to back-to-back World Championship titles in 2015 and 2016
On The Water
©Peter Spurrier/Intersport Images
2016
2015
2014
2009 & 2010
Rio 2016 Olympiad: 2013 – 2016
The 2016 season saw Fieldman first team up with Ollie Cook and Callum McBrierty in the men’s coxed pair for World Cup III in Poznan, Poland, where they beat Turkey to gold in a two-boat race. The trio continued their fine form at the World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam where, after winning their heat and semi-final, they stormed away from the field in the final to take gold by clear water.
His first GB appearance of the 2015 season was a memorable one as he coxed the men’s eight to a thrilling victory over Germany at the World Cup in Varese. The Olympic champions were overhauled in the dying stages as GB won by just two-tenths of a second.
He then coxed Mat Tarrant and Callum McBrierty to a convincing victory in the men’s coxed pair at the World Cup in Lucerne. Fieldman and Tarrant were joined by Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell for the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, winning gold by an impressive six-second margin.
The 2014 season had followed a similar pattern for Fieldman, who coxed the eight to a silver medal at the World Cup in Aiguebelette before switching to the coxed pair. This time he was joined by Alan Sinclair and Scott Durant, winning silver medals at both the Lucerne World Cup and the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.
Henry FieldmanLondon 2012 Olympiad: 2009 – 2012
Fieldman coxed the men’s eight at the World Rowing U23 Championships from 2008 to 2010, finishing fifth on his first appearance before winning two bronze medals.
He concluded the 2010 season by coxing the GB 2 ‘super eight’ that won the E.ON Hanse Cup in Rendesburg by 18 seconds – the first-ever British winners of the Cup in Germany and the only crew to beat the German eight during the 2012 Olympiad.
Fieldman made the step up to the senior team in 2012 when he coxed the men’s eight to fifth place at the European Championships in Varese, just two seconds behind the winning crew from Poland.
His international debut had come at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in 2006, where he guided the men’s coxed four to gold.
GB Competitive Record
| Year | Event | Position | Boat |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | European Rowing Championships Bled, SLO |
M8+ | |
| 2023 | European Rowing Championships Bled, SLO |
W8+ | |
| 2022 | World Rowing Cup III Lucerne, SUI |
M8+ | |
| 2020 | Olympic Games Regatta Tokyo, JPN |
M8+ | |
| 2021 | World Rowing Cup II Lucerne, SUI |
M8+ | |
| 2021 | European Rowing Championships Varese, ITA |
M8+ | |
| 2019 | World Rowing Championships Linz Ottensheim, AUT |
M8+ | |
| 2019 | World Rowing Cup III Rotterdam, NED |
M8+ | |
| 2019 | World Rowing Cup II Poznan, POL |
M8+ | |
| 2019 | European Rowing Championships Lucerne, SUI |
M8+ | |
| 2018 | World Rowing Championships Plovdiv, BUL |
M8+ | |
| 2018 | European Rowing Championships Glasgow, GBR |
5 | M8+ |
| 2018 | World Rowing Cup II Linz Ottensheim, AUT |
M8+ | |
| 2018 | World Rowing Cup I Belgrade, SRB |
M8+ | |
| 2017 | World Rowing Championships Sarasota-Bradenton, USA |
1 (FB Final) | M8+ |
| 2017 | World Rowing Cup III Lucerne, SUI |
6 | M8+ |
| 2017 | World Rowing Cup II Poznan, POL |
M8+ | |
| 2017 | European Rowing Championships Racice, CZE |
5 | M8+ |
| 2017 | World Rowing Cup I Belgrade, SRB |
M8+ | |
| 2016 | World Rowing Championships Rotterdam, NED |
M2+ | |
| 2016 | World Rowing Cup III Poznan, POL |
M2+ | |
| 2015 | World Rowing Championships Aiguebelette, FRA |
M2+ | |
| 2015 | World Rowing Cup III Lucerne, SUI |
M2+ | |
| 2015 | World Rowing Cup II Varese, ITA |
M8+ | |
| 2014 | World Rowing Championships Amsterdam, NED |
M2+ | |
| 2014 | World Rowing Cup III Lucerne, SUI |
M2+ | |
| 2014 | World Rowing Cup II Aiguebelette, FRA |
M8+ | |
| 2013 | World Rowing Cup III Lucerne, SUI |
2 (FB Final) | M8+ |
| 2013 | World Rowing Cup II Eton, GBR |
4 | M8+ |
| 2012 | European Championships Varese, ITA |
5 | M8+ |
| 2010 | Under 23 World Rowing Championships Brest, BLR |
BM8+ | |
| 2009 | Under 23 World Rowing Championships Racice, CZE |
BM8+ | |
| 2008 | World Rowing U Brandenburg, GER |
5 | BM8+ |
- Year:
- 2023
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Bled, SLO - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2023
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Bled, SLO - Position:
- Boat:
- W8+
- Year:
- 2022
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2020
- Event:
- Olympic Games Regatta
Tokyo, JPN - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2021
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2021
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Varese, ITA - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2019
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Linz Ottensheim, AUT - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2019
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Rotterdam, NED - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2019
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Poznan, POL - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2019
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2018
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Plovdiv, BUL - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2018
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Glasgow, GBR - Position:
- 5
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2018
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Linz Ottensheim, AUT - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2018
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup I
Belgrade, SRB - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2017
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Sarasota-Bradenton, USA - Position:
- 1 (FB Final)
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2017
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- 6
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2017
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Poznan, POL - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2017
- Event:
- European Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE - Position:
- 5
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2017
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup I
Belgrade, SRB - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2016
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Rotterdam, NED - Position:
- Boat:
- M2+
- Year:
- 2016
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Poznan, POL - Position:
- Boat:
- M2+
- Year:
- 2015
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Aiguebelette, FRA - Position:
- Boat:
- M2+
- Year:
- 2015
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- Boat:
- M2+
- Year:
- 2015
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Varese, ITA - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2014
- Event:
- World Rowing Championships
Amsterdam, NED - Position:
- Boat:
- M2+
- Year:
- 2014
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- Boat:
- M2+
- Year:
- 2014
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Aiguebelette, FRA - Position:
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2013
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup III
Lucerne, SUI - Position:
- 2 (FB Final)
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2013
- Event:
- World Rowing Cup II
Eton, GBR - Position:
- 4
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2012
- Event:
- European Championships
Varese, ITA - Position:
- 5
- Boat:
- M8+
- Year:
- 2010
- Event:
- Under 23 World Rowing Championships
Brest, BLR - Position:
- Boat:
- BM8+
- Year:
- 2009
- Event:
- Under 23 World Rowing Championships
Racice, CZE - Position:
- Boat:
- BM8+
- Year:
- 2008
- Event:
- World Rowing U
Brandenburg, GER - Position:
- 5
- Boat:
- BM8+
More info...
Club: Molesey Boat Club
Boat: Men’s Squad
Role: Cox
Coaches: Phil Bourgignon, John West
Learnt to Row: Latymer Upper School BC
Original Club(s): Latymer Upper School BC
Original Coach(es): Bobby Thatcher, Don McLachlan
Beyond the Boat
Fieldman has a MPhil in psychology & education from Cambridge University and, during his studies, he coxed the Light Blues in the 2013 Boat Race. He would want his Cambridge fleece if stranded on a desert island, along with his cat and favourite pair of black jeans.
He has many hobbies, including making films and being a director is one of his two dream non-rowing careers, the other being a F1 racing driver – “probably one of the more ‘level-headed’ ones, perhaps Fernando Alonso or someone like that.”
His idea of a perfect post-competition meal is pasta with pesto and cheese, followed by red velvet cake and his ideal dinner guests would be “my two brothers and whichever parent is least annoyed with me at the time”.
Henry has heterochromia of the eye, meaning one iris is blue and the other is green.
He is Lottery funded through UK Sport.
Personal information
| Current Address | Home Town | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Barnes | Barnes | London/Thames |
- Current Address:
- Barnes
- Home Town:
- Barnes
- Region:
- London/Thames
| Date of Birth | Height | |
|---|---|---|
| 25th November 1988 | 162cm |
- Date of Birth:
- 25th November 1988
- Height:
- 162cm
| Education |
|---|
| Westfields Primary School Barnes, Latymer Upper School, Imperial College London, UCL, Cambridge University |
- Education:
- Westfields Primary School Barnes, Latymer Upper School, Imperial College London, UCL, Cambridge University
