British rower Henry Fieldman made history on Saturday by becoming the first athlete to win Olympic medals in both men’s and women’s rowing events. Fieldman was the cox for Great Britain’s Women’s Eight team, which secured a bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Previously, he had won bronze with the men’s team in the same event at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.
In the recent competition, Britain finished third behind Canada, which claimed silver, and Romania, which took the gold medal.
This milestone follows a rule change by World Rowing after the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, allowing coxes of either sex to steer the eights, the only boats using coxes at Olympic regattas.