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- David Bewicke-Copley
- Godfrey Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell
- Baron Cromwell
- List of barons in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
- Grand Challenge Cup
- 2022 European Rowing Championships
- 2017 World Rowing U23 Championships
- 2018 World Rowing U23 Championships
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2022 European Championships
- 2022 World Rowing Championships
David Bewicke-Copley (born 21 September 1997) is a British representative rower. He was a 2022 world champion and has twice won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley.
School, varsity and club rowing
Bewicke-Copley is the eldest son of the 7th Baron Cromwell. He was educated at Eton College where he took up rowing. He attended Princeton University and was part of their elite senior rowing program.
When he competed for (and won) the Grand Challenge Cup (the blue riband event at the Henley Royal Regatta) in both 2021 and 2022 he raced in Oxford Brookes University Boat Club colours. He stroked that 2021 Grand Challenge Cup winning crew.
Representative career
Bewicke-Copley first earnt representative honours for Great Britain in 2016 when he was selected in the GB men's eight to contest the 2016 Under 23 World Rowing Championships. He made four consecutive representative appearances in the GB U23 men's eight at the U23 World Championships of 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 winning one bronze, two silver and a gold medal (in 2019).
Bewicke-Copley was selected into the three seat of the Great Britain senior eight for the World Rowing Cup I and III of 2022 where both those crews took gold as well as at the 2022 European Rowing Championships that season. Unchanged, that crew went to the 2022 World Rowing Championships where they won their heat and led over the full course in the final to claim the senior world champion eights title at the 2022 World Rowing Championships, Great Britain's first such win since 2015.
Bewicke-Copley was the only member of the 2022 GB world champion men's eight who did not return to the crew in 2023 to defend their title.
References
External links
David Godfrey Bewicke-Copley at World Rowing