Benedict Hunt-Davis (born 15 March 1972) was a British competition rower

Rowing (sport)

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

 and Olympic Champion.

Ben was educated at Shiplake College

Shiplake College

Shiplake College is an independent school in Shiplake, by the River Thames just outside Henley-on-Thames, England. The school, with just over 350 pupils, admits day boys from 11-18 and boarding boys from 13-18. Day and boarding girls join the College in the Sixth Form.The College offers small class...

, Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire

Hunt-Davis won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

 in Sydney

Sydney

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, as a member of the British rowing team, the only British crew to have won this event since 1912.

Hunt-Davis is a keynote speaker and owns Point8 Coaching, a corporate development company. He also works for the British Olympic Association and he is the Chairman of the 2011 World Rowing Junior Championships.

He has co-authored a book "Will It Make The Boat Go Faster" with Harriet Beveridge, it will be published on the 1st June 2011.