Alistair Potts

Alistair James Potts (born 7 July 1971) is a former British World Champion cox.

Alistair Potts
Alistair Potts in 1990
Sport
SportRowing
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Great Britain
World Rowing Championships
2000 ZagrebCoxed four
1999 St.Catherine'sCoxed four
Henley Royal Regatta
Winner1996 Ladies' PlateEight
Winner2000 Prince Philip CupCoxed four
University Boat Race
Winner1995 Cambridge WomenEight
Winner1996 GoldieEight
Winner1998 Cambridge MenEight

Potts was born in Chertsey, Surrey, and educated at Winchester College and the University of Edinburgh (studying architectural history). He coxed the men's four, men's lightweight eight and women's eight at the 1994 Commonwealth Regatta representing Scotland. After going up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge University at the end of 1994, he was winning coxswain in the record-breaking CUWBC crew at the 1995 Women's Boat Race, having trialled unsuccessfully for the men's squad. This was quickly followed by coxing Trinity Hall BC to the headship in the May Bumps. In 1996, returning to trial for the men's Boat Race squad for a third time, Potts was finally selected for Goldie, which beat Isis by 11 lengths in a then record time. That year, he also won the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta with CUBC (rowing as Goldie Boat Club). In 1998 he steered the record-breaking Cambridge Blue Boat in the Boat Race.

Potts won a silver medal at the 1999 World Championships at St. Catharines, Canada in the coxed four with Jonny Searle, Jonny Singfield, Rick Dunn and Graham Smith. Gold came in 2000 at Zagreb in the same boat class with Dunn, Smith and Toby Garbett and Steve Williams. This was the first time Great Britain had won the coxed four at the World Rowing Championships since its inception. That same crew also won the Prince Philip Challenge Cup at Henley.

Potts' rowing career finished in 2000 coinciding with the completion of his doctoral thesis on "The Development of the Playhouse in Seventeenth-Century London".[1] Potts is now a writer and broadcaster, and had a brief acting part in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2004.[2][3] He and his wife Emily are directors of Party Ark, an internet-based children's party supplies business[4] and administer the Titulus Regius website on the history of Richard III.[5] Since 2013 he has been a director of New York-based solar finance company Open Energy Group.[6]

Achievements

World championships
  • 2000 – Gold, Coxed Four (with Steve Williams, Rick Dunn, Toby Garbett, Graham Smith)
  • 1999 – Silver, Coxed Four (with Jonny Singfield, Jonny Searle, Rick Dunn, Graham Smith)

See also

References
  1. Alistair James Potts (June 1998). "The Development of the Playhouse in Seventeenth-Century London". Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  2. "Guest Character Profiles". Neighbours: The Perfect Blend. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  3. "Neighbours Episode 4476". TV.com. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  4. "About Us". Party Ark Ltd. Archived from the original on 7 June 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  5. "About – Titulus Regius". Archived from the original on 2 September 2013. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  6. "Open Energy – Solar Finance: Company and Directors".
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