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{{Short description|English rower and broadcaster (born 1970)}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]]
| name           = Matthew Pinsent 
| image          = Boat Race 2018 Matthew Pinsent.jpg
| imagesize      = <!--Only for images narrower than 220 pixels.-->
| caption        = Pinsent in 2018
| birth_name     = Matthew Clive Pinsent
| nationality    = British
| residence      =
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1970|10|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place    = [[Holt, Norfolk]], England
| height         = 6 ft 5 in
| weight         = {{convert|238|lb|st kg}}
| website        = [http://www.matthewpinsent.com/ www.matthewpinsent.com]
| country        = Great Britain
| alma_mater     = [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]]
| sport          = Men's [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]]
| event          = Coxless pair, coxless four
| collegeteam    = [[Oxford University Boat Club]]
| club           = [[Leander Club]]
| coach          = [[Jürgen Gröbler]]
| retired        = 2004
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]] }}
{{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Rowing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold  | [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]] | [[Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair|Coxless pair]] }}
{{MedalGold  | [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]] | [[Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless pair|Coxless pair]] }}
{{MedalGold  | [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]] | [[Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four|Coxless four]] }}
{{MedalGold  | [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]] | [[Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four|Coxless four]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Rowing Championships|World Championships]] }}
{{MedalGold    | [[1991 World Rowing Championships|1991 Vienna]] | Coxless pair}}
{{MedalGold    | [[1993 World Rowing Championships|1993 Račice]] | Coxless pair}}
{{MedalGold    | [[1994 World Rowing Championships|1994 Indianapolis]] | Coxless pair}}
{{MedalGold    | [[1995 World Rowing Championships|1995 Tampere]] | Coxless pair}}
{{MedalGold    | [[1997 World Rowing Championships|1997 Aiguebelette]] | Coxless four}}
{{MedalGold    | [[1998 World Rowing Championships|1998 Cologne]] | Coxless four}}
{{MedalGold    | [[1999 World Rowing Championships|1999 St. Catharines]] | Coxless four}}
{{MedalGold    | [[2001 World Rowing Championships|2001 Lucerne]] | Coxless pair}}
{{MedalGold    | [[2001 World Rowing Championships|2001 Lucerne]] | Coxed pair }}
{{MedalGold    | [[2002 World Rowing Championships|2002 Seville]] | Coxless pair}}
{{MedalBronze  | [[1989 World Rowing Championships|1989 Bled]] | Coxed four}}
{{MedalBronze  | [[1990 World Rowing Championships|1990 Tasmania]] | Coxless pair}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[The Boat Race]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[The Boat Race 1990]] | Oxford}}
{{MedalGold | [[The Boat Race 1991]] | Oxford}}
{{MedalSilver | [[The Boat Race 1993]] | Oxford}}
}}

'''Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|ɪ|n|s|ə|n|t}}; born 10 October 1970) is an English [[rowing (sport)|rower]] and broadcaster. During his rowing career, he won 10 world championship gold medals and four consecutive Olympic gold medals.

Since retiring, he has worked as a sports broadcaster for the [[BBC]].

==Early life and family==
Pinsent was born on 10 October 1970 in [[Holt, Norfolk|Holt]], [[Norfolk]].<ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Matthew Pinsent |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pi/matthew-pinsent-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417113156/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pi/matthew-pinsent-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |access-date=19 April 2017}}</ref> His father was the Rev. Ewen Macpherson Pinsent (1930–2020),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/16-october/gazette/deaths/deaths |title=Deaths |website=www.churchtimes.co.uk}}</ref> [[curate]] of [[St Andrew]]'s parish church, [[Kelso, Scottish Borders]], and his mother, Jean Grizel, came from a distinguished military family.<ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 900</ref><ref>Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th edition, ed. L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952, McMicking of Miltonise pedigree</ref>

Through his own aristocratic and military family,<ref>
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3142</ref><ref>Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage 1973, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, Kelly's Directories, p. 1883</ref> Pinsent is directly descended from [[Edward I of England|King Edward I]] and [[William the Conqueror]].<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Matthew Pinsent |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/whodoyouthinkyouare/past-stories/matthew-pinsent.shtml |series=Who Do You Think You Are? |series-link=Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series) |network=[[BBC One]] |airdate=18 October 2007 |series-no=4 |number=7}}</ref>

==Rowing==

===Student rower===
Matthew Pinsent attended [[Aysgarth School]] in North Yorkshire before he began rowing at [[Eton College]]. He began his international career at the [[World Rowing Junior Championships]] in 1987. He raced again in 1988, winning the junior coxless pairs with [[Tim Foster]].

After finishing school, Pinsent read geography at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]]. While a student, he competed in three [[The Boat Race|Boat Races]], winning in 1990 and 1991 but was unsuccessful in 1993 (when he was Boat Club President), having taken a year out in 1992 in order to concentrate on preparing for the Barcelona Olympics.

===International career===
In 1990, while still at Oxford, he joined [[Steve Redgrave]] in the coxless pair at the [[1990 World Rowing Championships|World Rowing Championships]], winning bronze. This was the beginning of a long partnership, and the pair won at the [[1991 World Rowing Championships|World Championships in 1991]], and at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996.

In 2000 he won Olympic gold again as part of a coxless four with Redgrave, [[James Cracknell]] and [[Tim Foster]]. He also carried the flag for [[Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics|Team GB]] at the [[2000 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|opening ceremony]]. In August 2000, the month prior to winning gold in [[Sydney]], he took part in a three-part BBC documentary entitled ''[[Gold Fever (British TV series)|Gold Fever]]''. This followed the coxless four team in the years leading up to the Olympics, including video diaries recording the highs and lows in the quest for what would be Pinsent's third consecutive gold.

He was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in November 2000 when he was surprised by [[Michael Aspel]] during a party celebrating the achievements of the British Olympic Association at the London Aquarium.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}

Pinsent and Cracknell then formed a men's coxless pair and won the coxless and coxed pairs (with [[Neil Chugani]] coxing) in the [[2001 World Rowing Championships|2001 World Championships]], and the coxless pair [[2002 World Rowing Championships|in 2002]]. However, after a disappointing 2003 season that saw Pinsent's first World Championships defeat since 1990, he and Cracknell moved to the men's coxless four for 2004.

At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens]], Pinsent's fourth Olympic Games, Pinsent stroked the boat, with Cracknell, [[Ed Coode]] and [[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]]. In a close race with world champions [[Canada]], they again won gold.

Pinsent was elected to the [[International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission]] in 2001, replacing [[Jan Železný]]. In 2004, at the Athens Olympics, Pinsent failed to secure re-election to the post, being replaced by Železný.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics_2004/3601726.stm |title=Pinsent loses IOC role |date=26 August 2004 |work=[[BBC Sport Online]] |access-date=7 March 2010}}</ref>

The {{convert|6|ft|5|in|m}}, {{convert|17|st|kg}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/4134421.stm |title=Pinsent 'humbled' by knighthood |date=31 December 2004 |work=[[BBC Sport Online]] |access-date=7 March 2010}}</ref> Pinsent had at one time the largest [[lung capacity]] recorded for a sportsman at 8.5&nbsp;litres. This has since been surpassed by fellow rower [[Pete Reed]] who has been measured at 11.68&nbsp;litres.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/rowing-reed-blows-away-competition-with-breathtaking-ability-411960.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/rowing-reed-blows-away-competition-with-breathtaking-ability-411960.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Rowing: Reed blows away competition with breathtaking ability |last=Harris |first=Nick |date=15 August 2006 |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=7 March 2010 |location=London}}</ref>

===Achievements===

====Olympic Games====
* 2004 – Gold, Coxless Four (with [[James Cracknell]], [[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]], [[Ed Coode]])
* 2000 – Gold, Coxless Four (with [[James Cracknell]], [[Tim Foster]], [[Steve Redgrave]])
* 1996 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with [[Steve Redgrave]])
* 1992 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with [[Steve Redgrave]])

====World Championships====
* 2003 – 4th, Coxless Pair (with James Cracknell)
* 2002 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with James Cracknell)
* 2001 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with James Cracknell)
* 2001 – Gold, Coxed Pair (with James Cracknell, [[Neil Chugani]])
* 1999 – Gold, Coxless Four (with James Cracknell, Ed Coode, Steve Redgrave)
* 1998 – Gold, Coxless Four (with James Cracknell, Tim Foster, Steve Redgrave)
* 1997 – Gold, Coxless Four (with James Cracknell, Tim Foster, Steve Redgrave)
* 1995 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Steve Redgrave)
* 1994 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Steve Redgrave)
* 1993 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Steve Redgrave)
* 1991 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Steve Redgrave)
* 1990 – Bronze, Coxless Pair (with Steve Redgrave)
* 1989 – Bronze, Coxed Four (with Terry Dillon, [[Steve Turner (rower)|Steve Turner]], [[Gavin Stewart]], [[Vaughan Thomas (rower)|Vaughan Thomas]])

====Junior World Championships====
* 1988 – Gold, Coxless Pair (with Tim Foster)
* 1987 – 4th, Eight

==Career after rowing==
Pinsent announced his retirement from rowing on 30 November 2004,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2392195/Pinsent-calls-time-on-rowing-career.html |title=Pinsent calls time on rowing career |date=30 November 2004 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=7 March 2010 |location=London}}</ref> and was made a [[Knight Bachelor]] in the [[British honours system|New Year's Honours]] list announced on 31 December 2004.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=57509 |supp=y|page=1|date=31 December 2004}}</ref>

He had already been appointed a Member of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in 1993,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=53153 |supp=y|page=16|date=30 December 1992}}</ref> raised to Commander in 2001.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=56070 |supp=y|page=7|date=30 December 2000}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Thomas Keller Medal]] by the [[International Rowing Federation]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishrowing.org/news/pinsent-receive-rowings-top-honour |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222205735/http://www.britishrowing.org/news/pinsent-receive-rowings-top-honour |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 December 2010 |title=Pinsent to Receive Rowing's Top Honour |date=18 May 2005 |publisher=[[British Rowing]] |access-date=7 March 2010}}</ref>

Since retiring from rowing, Pinsent has worked for the [[BBC]] as a sports bulletin presenter and reporter. His assignments have included interviewing [[Dwain Chambers]] for ''[[Inside Sport (TV series)|Inside Sport]]'', where Chambers confessed to taking drugs,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/mar/09/athletics.news |title=Coming Clean |last=Mackay |first=Duncan |date=9 March 2008 |work=[[The Observer]] |access-date=7 March 2010 |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tv_and_radio/inside_sport/6693105.stm |title=Pinsent on Chambers |last=Pinsent |first=Matthew |date=28 May 2007 |work=[[BBC Sport Online]] |access-date=7 March 2010}}</ref> and visiting gymnastics training centre in China where he found evidence of children being beaten, leading to [[International Olympic Committee|IOC]] President [[Jacques Rogge]] to order an inquiry.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2369234/Olympics-Rogge-backs-Beijing-over-human-rights.html |title=Olympics: Rogge backs Beijing over human rights |last=Hart |first=Simon |date=4 December 2005 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=7 March 2010 |location=London}}</ref> He has also worked on a number of [[Olympic Games]] for the corporation. At [[Beijing 2008]], [[Vancouver 2010]], [[London 2012]], [[Sochi 2014]], [[Rio 2016]] and [[Beijing 2022]], Pinsent worked as a general reporter, compiling reports from sports and events across the games.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC - Press Office - 2008 Olympics press pack: BBC Television team |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/06_june/19/olympics5.shtml |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC - Press Office - Network TV Programme Information BBC Week 7 Winter Olympics 2010 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2010/wk7/olympics.shtml |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-05-15 |title=London 2012 Olympics: BBC presenters and commentary teams |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/18070768 |access-date=2025-05-04 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games on the BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/winter_olympics_2014 |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rio 2016 on the BBC - TV |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/rio/tv |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games on the BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/beijing-2022-winter-olympic-games |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> At the [[2020 Summer Olympics|Tokyo 2020]] and [[Paris 2024 Olympics]], Pinsent was also the water-side reporter for the rowing and canoeing events.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tokyo 2020 on the BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/mediapacks/tokyo-2020/ |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fall in love with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on the BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/olympic-games-paris-2024-on-the-bbc |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> Pinsent also reported from the [[Delhi 2010]] and [[Glasgow 2014|Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC - Press Office - Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games on the BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/09_september/17/commonwealth.shtml |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Biographies |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/cwg/biogs |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>

Pinsent has maintained his ties to rowing as an umpire or commentator of key events on the rowing calendar such as the Olympics, [[Henley Royal Regatta]]<ref>{{cite episode |title=Sir Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent on Henley Regatta |series=Sir Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent on Henley Regatta |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02w1hzb |station=[[BBC Radio 4]]}}</ref> and [[The Boat Race]]s.<ref>{{cite news |title=GB rowers win five trophies at Henley Regatta |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/rowing/14008189 |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=3 July 2011}}</ref> He umpired his first "[[Blue Boat]]" race in [[The Boat Race 2013|2013]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir Matthew Pinsent enjoys untarnished debut as Boat Race umpire |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/article3727980.ece |work=[[The Times]] |date=1 April 2013}}</ref>

In June 2012, Pinsent rowed on the ''[[Gloriana (ship)|Gloriana]]'' as part of the royal pageant for the [[Diamond Jubilee]] of [[Elizabeth II]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9272330/Diamond-Jubilee-Steve-Redgrave-and-Matthew-Pinsent-to-lead-River-Pageant-in-royal-rowbarge-Gloriana.html |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Gordon |last=Rayner |title=Diamond Jubilee: Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent to lead River Pageant in royal rowbarge Gloriana |date=17 May 2012}}</ref> He appeared again on the ''Gloriana'' the following month, bearing the olympic torch as it crossed the river Thames.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-07-27/sir-matthew-pinsent-carrying-olympic-torch-has-been-great/ |title=Sir Matthew Pinsent: 'Carrying Olympic Torch has been great' |website=ITV News}}</ref>

Pinsent directed "Unbelievable – The Chad Le Clos Story", a documentary following [[Chad Le Clos]] and his family for 18 months in the run up to the [[2016 Summer Olympics]], which was first broadcast in July 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.supersport.com/aquatics/sa-swimming/news/160721/Review_Unbelievable_The_Chad_le_Clos_story |title=Unbelievable – The Chad le Clos story |last1=Todt |first1=Michael |date=21 July 2016 |website=[[SuperSport (South African TV channel)]] |access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/South-Africa/le-clos-opens-up-on-parents-cancer-battle-20160712 |title=Le Clos opens up on parents' cancer battle |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=12 July 2016 |website=[[News24 (website)|Sport24]] |access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref>

In 2020 Pinsent appeared as a contestant on Series 15 of BBC Television's ''[[Celebrity Masterchef]]'', finishing in joint-second place.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Darvill |first=Josh |date=2020-06-28 |title=Celebrity MasterChef 2020 line up of celebrity contestants revealed |url=https://tellymix.co.uk/reality-tv/443723-celebrity-masterchef-2020-line-up-of-celebrity-contestants-revealed.html |access-date=2020-07-13 |website=TellyMix |language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Pinsent is married to Demetra Koutsoukos, a businesswoman, former partner at [[McKinsey & Co]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.capitalandcounties.com/our_people/non_exec_directors/ |title=Chairman and non Executive Directors &#124; Capital & Counties |access-date=2012-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617123911/http://www.capitalandcounties.com/our_people/non_exec_directors/ |archive-date=17 June 2012}}</ref> and current CEO of the makeup brand [[Charlotte Tilbury#Beauty company|Charlotte Tilbury Ltd]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Executive profile: Demetra Pinsent |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=206414386&privcapId=47267950 |website=bloomberg.com |publisher=Bloomberg |access-date=28 February 2018}}</ref> The couple met at Oxford, where Koutsoukos was a [[Rhodes Scholar]] from Harvard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.campaign.ox.ac.uk/priorities/find_your_priority/sport/za_of_oxford_sport/c_is_for_clubosity.html |title=C is for Clubosity - University of Oxford |access-date=2012-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922192621/http://www.campaign.ox.ac.uk/priorities/find_your_priority/sport/za_of_oxford_sport/c_is_for_clubosity.html |archive-date=22 September 2012}}</ref>

They have three children: twin boys, Jonah and Lucas (born 2006) and a daughter, Eve (born 2008).{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

==Styles and honours==
* Mr Matthew Pinsent (1970–1992)
* Mr Matthew Pinsent, MBE (1993–2000)
* Mr Matthew Pinsent, CBE (2001–2004)
* Sir Matthew Pinsent, CBE (2005—)

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Pinsent |first=Matthew |title=A Lifetime in a Race |publisher=[[Ebury Press]] |date=2 September 2004 |isbn=978-0-09-190149-3}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* {{Official website|http://www.matthewpinsent.com/}}
* {{World Rowing|8639}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110718113610/http://www.rowingone.com/n_bio_rower.fwx?no_id=8639 archive])
* {{Team GB}}
* {{Olympics.com|matthew-pinsent-1|org_id=matthew-pinsent|org_archive=20120228185322}}
* {{Olympedia}}

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