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Moe Sbihi

Mohamed Sbihi
MBE

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	(1988-03-27) 27 March 1988 (age 36) Kingston upon Thames, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater	St Mary's University, Twickenham
Height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight	103 kg (227 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Sport	Rowing
Event(s)	Coxless four, Eight
Club	Molesey Boat Club
Medal record Men's rowing Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Coxless four 2012 London Eight 2020 Tokyo Eight World Championships 2013 Chungju Eight 2014 Amsterdam Coxless four 2015 Aiguebelette Eight 2010 Karapiro Eight 2011 Bled Eight 2017 Sarasota Coxless four 2018 Plovdiv Eight 2019 Ottensheim Eight European Championships 2014 Belgrade Coxless four 2016 Brandenburg Coxless four 2021 Varese Eight 2015 Poznan Eight 2019 Lucerne Eight

Mohamed Karim Sbihi MBE (born 27 March 1988) is a British rower. He is a three-time Olympian and Olympic medal winner. He won a gold medal in the coxless fourat2016 Rio Olympics, and at the 2012 London Olympics he was in the British crew that won the bronze medal in the men's eight.^[2] He returned to the eight for the 2020 Tokyo games, again winning bronze.

Early life[edit]

Sbihi was born in Kingston upon Thames to a British mother and a Moroccan father.^[3] He attended Hollyfield Secondary SchoolinSurbiton,^[4] before studying Sport Science with Health, Nutrition & Exercise at St. Mary's University College, Twickenham on a sports scholarship from 2006 to 2010. Before he joined the rowing team he played both association football and basketball.

At the age of 15, he was identified as a potentially successful oarsman by a talent-spotting programme and joined the GB Rowing World Class Start programme.^[5][6] Sbihi finished first in the junior men J15 category at the 2003 Great Britain Indoor Rowing Championships.^[7]

Career[edit]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom he was part of the British crew that won the bronze medal in the eight.^[8]

In 2013, he was part of the men’s eight that won gold at the World Rowing Championships. In 2014 he won gold medals in the coxless four at both the European Rowing Championships in Belgrade and the World Championships in Amsterdam.^[9] In 2015, he won gold at the World Championships for the third consecutive year, this time in the eight again.^[10]

In the 2016 Rio Olympics, Sbihi was part of the GB coxless four. The team won the gold medal, Britain's fifth consecutive gold in the event.^[11][12]

He won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Rowing ChampionshipsinSarasota, Florida, as part of the coxless four.^[13] He then won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Rowing ChampionshipsinPlovdiv, Bulgaria, as part of the eight with James Rudkin, Alan Sinclair, Tom Ransley, Thomas George, Oliver Wynne-Griffith, Matthew Tarrant, Will Satch and Henry Fieldman^[14] and won another bronze medal the following year at the 2019 World Rowing ChampionshipsinOttensheim, Austria as part of the eight with George, Rudkin, Josh Bugajski, Jacob Dawson, Wynne-Griffith, Tarrant, Thomas Ford and Fieldman.^[15]

In 2021, he won a European gold medal in the eight in Varese, Italy.^{[16] [17]}

Sbihi was selected as one of Team GB's two flag bearers for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, on 23 July 2021, which he described as a "huge honour".^[18][19] He became Great Britain's first ever Muslim flag bearer.^[20]

Honours[edit]

Sbihi was made a member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's 2017 New Year Honours list for services to rowing.^[21]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Moe SbihiatWorld Rowing
• Moe SbihiatOlympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

Olympic Games
Preceded by Andy Murray	Flagbearer for  Great Britain (with Hannah Mills) Tokyo 2020	Succeeded by Incumbent