Brian Price (rower)

Brian Price

Personal information
Full name	Brian Price
Nationality	Canadian
Born	(1976-02-19) February 19, 1976 Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Club	Quinte Rowing Club
Medal record Men's rowing Representing  Canada Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Men's eights 2012 London Men's eights World Rowing Championships 2002 Seville[1] Eight (M8+) 2003 Milan[2] Eight (M8+) 2007 Munich[3] Eight (M8+) 2003 Milan[4] Coxed Pair (M2+) 2006 Eton[5] Coxed Pair (M2+) 2007 Munich[6] Coxed Pair (M2+) 2011 Lake Bled Eight (M8+) 2011 Lake Bled Coxed Pair (M2+) World Rowing Cup 2003 Lucerne[7] Eight (M8+) 2004 Munich[8] Eight (M8+) 2004 Lucerne[9] Eight (M8+) 2007 Lucerne[10] Eight (M8+) 2008 Lucerne[11] Eight (M8+) 2002 Lucerne[12] Eight (M8+) Representing  Australia World Rowing Cup 2000 Lucerne Coxed Pair Royal Henley Regatta 2002 Grand Challenge Cup Men's Eight 2003 Grand Challenge Cup Men's Eight 2007 Grand Challenge Cup Men's Eight

Brian Price (born February 19, 1976) has been the Canadian coxswain of the Men's Eight since 2001. He was born in Belleville, Ontario. Price began rowing on the National Team in 1998 after graduating from Seneca College with a Civil Engineering Technology diploma. The first national team crew that he made was the 1998 development lwt eight. He made the move to the heavyweight men's team in 1999 and competed at the Pan Am Games in Winnipeg.

Price has competed at World Championships in the Eight from 2001–2008, 2011 and has earned three World Championship victories ('02,'03,'07) along with a bronze medal most recently in 2011. He has doubled up in the Eight and Coxed Pair four times and medaled each time with a bronze. His Men's Eight gold medal victories came in 2002 (Seville,Spain), 2003 (Milan, Italy) and 2007 (Munich, Germany). His four World Championship Coxed Pair Bronze medals came in 2003, 2006, 2007 & 2011. He also has multiple World Cup medals to his credit, 5 gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze.

Brian is a survivor of childhood cancer, leukemia ALL. He underwent chemotherapy and a harsh drug regime as a child which played havoc with his thyroid and stunted his growth. This left him smaller than he should have been but the perfect size for a coxswain standing at 5'4" tall and 121 lbs. His favorite saying is "Without having had cancer, I would not have become a World and Olympic Champion."^[13]

He met his future wife Robbi Stott of Belleville in September 2000 and they were married on December 11, 2004. After having lived in Ottawa after the Athens Olympics for two years, and Robbi becoming a Registered Massage Therapist, they moved back to Victoria so that Brian could train at the Victoria Training Centre full-time in March 2007. They now reside in Orangeville, ON. Robbi has given birth two beautiful baby girls, Brianna Helen on May 31, 2007 and most recently their second daughter, Peyton Victoria on Jan 12, 2010.

Brian is now an Olympic Gold Medalist after dominating the field at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing China. He won the Men's Eight with team mates Kevin Light, Ben Rutledge, Andrew Byrnes, Jake Wetzel, Malcolm Howard, Dominic Sieterle, Adam Kreek and Kyle Hamilton^[14] Great Britain won the silver while USA finished with Bronze. The Canadian boat stormed out to a lead right from the start with GB and the USA unable to match their immense power.

Brian decided to take two years away from rowing (2009, 2010) and enjoyed a successful career in the speaking industry. His motivational story of Cancer survival to Olympic Champion resonated with everyone from corporate audiences to elementary schools. As much as he enjoyed speaking, he was drawn back to rowing by a young and motivated group of guys on the Canadian National Team. With Mike Spracklen still at the helm of the Heavy Men's Eight, it was the obvious choice to return to the Eight with the aim of defending gold in London 2012.

With 2011 being his first World Championships back in the boat, it proved to be successful one with improvements coming throughout the season. Canada finished 5th at the prestigious Lucerne World Cup Regatta and improved even more with a Bronze medal at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled Slovenia. This finish qualified them for the 2012 Olympics (top 7 qualified) and solidified them a legitimate contenders heading into the games.

He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's eights. His teammates included Malcolm Howard and Andrew Byrnes, with whom he won gold in 2008. The other six were Gabriel Bergen, Jeremiah Brown, Will Crothers, Douglas Csima, Robert Gibson and Conlin McCabe.^[15]

References

External links

• Brian's Official Website
• Rowing Canada Bio (scroll down)
• Brian's Official Media Page
• Brian Price at WorldRowing.com from FISA
• "Brian Price". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.