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  Ed Coode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ed Coode, MBE (born June 19, 1975 in Bodmin, Cornwall) is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist.
Coode won his first world championship in 1999, as a substitute in the British men's coxless four, rowing with Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell.
With the injury to Alex Partridge, Coode was moved from the eight to the coxless four for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, rowing with Pinsent, Cracknell and Williams.
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 Ed Coode Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ed is well known as the fifth man for the Olympic coxless four.
The decision between Ed and Tim was a hard one for coach Jürgen Grobler.
Following Greg's move to sailing early in 2001, Ed was selected for a new combination coxless four which had an encouraging start to the season with a silver medal at the World Cup in Seville.
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 Ed Coode -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ed Coode, MBE (born June 19, 1975 in (Click link for more info and facts about Bodmin) Bodmin, (A hilly county in southwestern England) Cornwall) is a British (Someone who rows a boat) rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist.
With the injury to Alex Partridge, Coode was moved from the eight to the coxless four for the (Click link for more info and facts about 2004 Summer Olympics) 2004 Summer Olympics in (The capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)) Athens, rowing with Pinsent, Cracknell and Williams.
In October 2004, Coode announced he was retiring from rowing - taking a year out to travel and then study for a (The collection of rules imposed by authority) law (A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process) degree.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ed/Ed_Coode.htm   (502 words)

  
 Archive of all Games sports news stories
Searle and Coode who had shown impressive form in the heats, finishing as the second fastest qualifiers from the semi finals, were fourth in six minutes 34.38 seconds only 0.12 seconds behind the Australians in third place.
Coode, 25 from Cornwall, was in the Oxford crew for the 1998 boat race and was the stand-in for Tim Foster in the coxless four when Foster was injured.
Coode won a gold medal with Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell at the World Championships last year only to be replaced by Foster after he had recovered from his back trouble.
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 British Rowing Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ed has twice won World Championship gold medals in the four - first in St Catherines, Canada in 1999 and again in 2001 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Tim eventually regained his seat and Ed was paired with Greg Searle, finishing a fraction outside the medals in Sydney in that worst of all places, 4th.
Ed subsequently won a place back in the eight only to be called into the four once more to replace Partridge.
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 The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ed is well known as the "fifth man" for the Olympic four.
Ed became a world champion and helped the crew to retain their world title for the third successive year.
When James returned to fitness, Ed was given a place in the Athens Olympic Eight.
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 The Central Council of Physical Recreation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Following the ‘purchase’ of Ed Coode at the Sports Ball’s auction in November, Ed kindly agreed to give up some his much deserved free time to introduce some of the CCPR staff to the joys of rowing and to attend the staff Christmas lunch.
Ed (and his gold medal!) were then escorted back to the CCPR offices in Westminster where he joined all the staff for their informal Christmas lunch, where a very merry time was had by all!
Many thanks to Ed for being such a willing and obliging guest, to LRC for the use of their excellent facilities and to Margaret Talbot for her generosity to both CCPR and Sports Aid.
www.ccpr.org.uk /nlstory.cfm?ID=11700&NLID=50264   (320 words)

  
 icBirmingham - Coode may be set to quit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Olympic rowing champion Ed Coode has dropped the broadest of hint he is ready to retire from the sport.
Coode suffered a traumatic time at the Sydney Olympics and nearly quit the sport after finishing fourth in the pair while his two former crews, the four and the eight, both won gold.
After two months, Coode realised he needed to reach another Olympic final and in stark contrast to four years ago is now considering retirement while on the highest of highs.
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 scrum.com ... rugby news, rugby results, rugby action from scrum, the best rugby football site in the world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
To see Ed Coode and Greg Searle trying to come to terms with their failure to win a medal of any description, when at the half-way stage of the coxless pairs they were well clear of the field and with one foot on the winner's podium, was tantamount to being present at a family bereavement.
Coode was the man who could have been in the coxless four, but just missed that boat.
Coode was less than a second away from his own place in the Olympic history books.
www.scrum.com /columns/inverdale/inverdale40.asp   (874 words)

  
 Benchmark Sport
Ed Coode and Steve Williams along with crew mates Cracknell and Pinsent pulled home for gold in what was a dramatic finish that had tears flowing all round
The crew of; Pinsent, Coode, Cracknell and Williams looked down as they went into their final 10 strokes, but as their boat (named after the absent Alex Partridge) crossed the line they had won by 0.08 seconds.
Ed Coode replaced Alex Partridge who suffered a punctured lung and wasn’t able to make the trip, but Ed was no second rate replacement and is a very well recognised championship rower in his own right.
www.benchmarksport.com /news_0804_coxless4.asp   (346 words)

  
 Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ed Coode has replaced Alex Partridge, who had to withdraw on medical grounds, in the Men’s Four.
Tom Stallard was also named today as a replacement for Ed Coode in the men's eight.
Coode recently transferred to the men's four to fill the seat left open when Alex Partridge had to withdraw on medical grounds.
www.olympics.org.uk /press/pressdetail.asp?boa_press_id=368   (1083 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Other Sport | Coode considers return for Worlds
Olympic gold rowing medallist Ed Coode revealed he could return to the sport to contest the world championships, which will be held at Eton in 2006.
Coode decided to stop rowing for at least a year after the Olympics but now he says the chance to compete on home waters could be too tempting to ignore.
Coode won his first Olympic medal in Athens as part of the men's coxless fours alongside Matthew Pinsent, James Cracknell and Steve Williams.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/other_sports/3756370.stm   (373 words)

  
 VisitBritain : Lottery Interviews - Ed Coode   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ed Coode was part of the coxless fours rowing team which clinched gold in a photo finish in one of the closest races of the Athens Olympic Games.
Fortunately, Coode’s talent had been spotted and he was offered Lottery funding as part of UK Sport’s World Class Performance Programme.
The entire structure of British rowing has changed over the past decade through funding and Ed says this is evident with the medal tallies from the past two games.
www.visitbritain.com /VB3-de-DE/experiences/getactive/features/interviews_ed_coode.aspx   (518 words)

  
 British Rowing - Olympics 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ed Coode and Greg Searle in their new seating order with Greg at stroke did the same, holding off repeated challenges from Matthew Long and James Tomkins, who after the euphoria of their win in Lucerne in mid-July with Long in for Drew Ginn as sub, are now learning to row together.
Meanwhile, Coode and Searle have had time to bond in the boat after, as Searle said at their press conference, "Ed came from a fast-moving boat and I came from a slow-moving one.
The pair asserted that neither was bothered about who sits where, and that the European competition season with Coode sitting at stroke followed by the switch were both good moves in their preparation.
www.british.rowing.org.uk /olydodd-02.html   (499 words)

  
 Telegraph | Sport | Rowing: Agony as Partridge has to withdraw
His place goes to the eight's Ed Coode, world champion with Matt Pinsent and James Cracknell in 1999, and gold medallist again during 2001 with Steve Williams.
If it were me, I'd be running a mile." For Ed Coode, it sums up the man he had won a bronze medal with in the eight.
Coode's departure leaves the eight needing a new bow-side oarsman.
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 COODE HOPES TO INSPIRE NEXT GENERATION: Sporting Life | World Series of Poker, London 2012, The Olympic Games, Tour de ...
While Coode contemplates whether to retire after his "dream finish" alongside Matthew Pinsent, James Cracknell and Steve Williams, he is only just getting used to the idea that his achievements will be held up as an inspiration to the youngsters.
Coode is involved in Project Oarsome, an embryonic plan to open the sport of rowing to clubs and schools that might have never previously had the facilities or budget to include it in the schedule.
And it appears to be working, with Coode's pet club in Cornwall and the local schools already benefiting from the scheme.
www.sporting-life.com /others/news/story_get.dor?STORY_NAME=olympics/04/08/30/OLYMPICS_Rowing_Coode.html   (723 words)

  
 www.thecalendarcrew.com/   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In one of the great races in these or any Olympics the GB coxless four of Matthew Pinsent, Ed Coode, James Cracknell and Steve Williams were triumphant by beating the Canadians by 0.08 seconds and winning gold.
The coxless four, which has been dogged by illness, injury and selection squabbles, suffered the cruellest blow as Alex Partridge was forced to pull out with a collapsed lung and it will be too late for him to regain his seat for Athens.
Ed, who was fifth man in the coxless four leading up to the Sydney Olympics, had failed to make the squad for Poznan due to poor performance at the recent trials.
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 Guardian Unlimited Sport | Other sports | Coode keeps broken four on course
Nevertheless, Partridge's replacement, Ed Coode, rowed well enough to show why he could be just the man to resurrect Pinsent's hopes of winning a fourth successive Olympic gold medal, in Athens.
Pinsent explained: "Our coach Jurgen Grobler gave us just 30 seconds to digest that news before he told us that Ed Coode would be taking his place in the boat for Athens." That information set up an emotional roller-coaster of a weekend for the British crew, where for once rowing seemed to take second place.
The impressive Coode, who was expecting to lead the British eight in Athens, had to deal with his own feelings.
sport.guardian.co.uk /moresports/story/0,10330,1254240,00.html   (635 words)

  
 Olympic Rowing News: first person   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Greg Searle and Ed Coode made an excellent start to the Olympic Games with a fine win in their heat, beating the Lucerne winners James Tomkins (a double Olympic gold medallist) and Matthew Long (Australia).
We're very aware that we haven't won any medals yet although it looks like we've got some good speed so we're obviously pretty satisfied with the work we've done in the past couple of months and the speed we seem to be showing.
Ed: "Obviously we've been running through some race plans and really we just rowed our own race today.
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 South West Olympians and Paralympians
An emotional Pinsent could was in floods of tears as he stood on the rostrum with team mates James Cracknell, Ed Coode (from Cornwall) and Steve Williams.
Ed Coode was a members of the Lottery funded World Class Potential programme.
At the age of 13 Ed attained an England team place for the Automatic Ball Trap and he went on to win gold in the European Junior Championships in 2000 and the European Universal Trench Junior Championships in 2001.
www.sportengland.org /text/southwest_index/southwest_in_your_region-3/iyr_south_west-olympians.htm   (3508 words)

  
 Press Release - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Flying the flag for Britain are Newcastle University graduate and former member of the Universityís Elite Athletes squad, Ed Coode, and his rowing partner, Barcelona Olympic gold-medal winner Greg Searle.
Ed Coode graduated from the University in 1997 with a BSc Honours in Marine Biology.
He rowed with the Menís First VIII in the first Northumbrian Water University Boat Race, also in 1997, and in 1999, as a member of the ledendgary ëOarsome Foursomeí, was a winner in the Coxless IV event at the World Rowing Championship in Canada, rowing alongside Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell.
www.ncl.ac.uk /press.office/press.release/content.phtml?ref=969544750   (370 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Olympics 2004 | Rowing | Redgrave backs Coode
Coode came in for Alex Partridge, who withdrew with a collapsed lung, and joins Matthew Pinsent, James Cracknell and Steve Williams in the top boat.
"Ed's an outstanding athlete and in a strange way it has made the four stronger," Redgrave told BBC Sport.
Coode was also a substitute at times in the run-up to the last Olympics, most notably when he was drafted in in place of Tim Foster and won the world title with Redgrave, Pinsent and Cracknell in 1999.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/olympics_2004/rowing/3873023.stm   (396 words)

  
 Regatta Online - World Cup
Tim Foster was being filmed watching the British four in their semifinal today, speculating about what the rest of the season holds in store for him.
Coode, assisted by James Cracknell, Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, cruised to win their semifinal in 6.32.01.
They went hard to 1000 metres and then sat on a comfortable lead, Netherlands and Lithuania also qualifying for tomorrow's final and Norway relegated to the B final.
www.regatta.rowing.org.uk /virtual/www.regatta.rowing.org.uk/119-hazewink2.html   (694 words)

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