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Jul 07, 1971 Chertsey, England, United Kingdom 52 years old
British rower
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About Alistair Potts
- Alistair James Potts (born 7 July 1971) is a British World Champion cox. 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.
- This was quickly followed by coxing Trinity Hall BC to the headship in the May Bumps.
- In 1996 Potts recorded a record-breaking win in the Goldie-Isis reserve race and 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".
- Potts is now a writer and broadcaster, and had a brief acting part in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2004.
- He and his wife Emily are directors of Party Ark, an internet-based children's party supplies business and administer the Titulus Regius website on the history of Richard III.
- Since 2013 he has been a director of New York-based solar finance company Open Energy Group.
