SIR Matthew Pinsent is one of Team GB’s all-time Olympic greats. And the rowing legend is regularly seen in punditry roles with the BBC when the sport is on. How old is Sir Matthew Pinsent? 51-year-old Matthew Pinsent was born in Holt, Norfolk in 1970. He attended Aysgarth School in North Yorkshire before he began […]
SIR Matthew Pinsent is one of Team GB’s all-time Olympic greats.
And the rowing legend is regularly seen in punditry roles with the BBC when the sport is on.
51-year-old Matthew Pinsent was born in Holt, Norfolk in 1970.
He attended Aysgarth School in North Yorkshire before he began rowing at Eton College.
Pinsent has royal ancestry, being directly descended from Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and thus from King Edward I and William the Conqueror.
Pinsent has won four Olympic gold medals.
In 1992 in Barcelona and 1996 in Atlanta, he teamed up with five-time gold medalist Steve Redgrave to win the coxless pair.
In 2000, Pinsent and Redgrave were in the same boat again, as they won the coxless four with James Cracknell and Tim Foster.
Pinsent then picked up his fourth gold at Athens 2004 in the coxless four with Cracknell, Steve Williams and Ed Coode.
Matthew Pinsent is also a two-time Boat Race winner, having triumphed with Oxford in 1990 and 1991.
