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Sybille Schmidt

Sybille Schmidt (born 1967, Apolda) is a German rower, Olympic champion in the women's quadruple sculls at Barcelona 1992 (6:20.18) and world champion in the event in 1989, 1990, and 1991.

Sydney Payne

Sydney Payne (born 1997) is a Canadian rower, women's eight specialist; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020, silver Paris 2024, two U23 world titles, Cal Berkeley alumna.

Tage Henriksen

Tage Henriksen (1925–2016), Danish rower, Olympic gold medalist in men's coxed pairs at the 1948 London Games with Finn Pedersen and cox Carl-Ebbe Andersen; also a three-time Danish champion and 1947 European bronze medalist.

Taylor Ritzel

Taylor Ritzel (born 1988, Aurora, Colorado) is an American rower, 2012 Olympic gold medalist and 2010 and 2011 world champion in the women's eight, and a three-time NCAA champion at Yale who began rowing at 18.

Ted Nash

Ted Nash (Theodore Allison Nash, II, 1932-2021), American rower and coach; Olympic gold in the 1960 coxless four and bronze in 1964; long-time Penn coach, NWRA co-founder; later subject of a credible 2024 USRowing abuse investigation.

Terence Sanders

Terence Robert Beaumont Sanders (1901–1985), Irish-born British Olympic oarsman, engineer, and armaments expert; won 1924 Paris coxless fours gold, developed the Sherman Firefly, and advised the British Standards Institute.

Tessa Gobbo

Tessa Gobbo (Tessa Gobbo-Zimmerman), American rower born 1990 in Keene, New Hampshire; Olympic gold in the women's eight at Rio 2016, three World Championship medals, Brown 2013 graduate, now Brown women's crew head coach.

Teun Beijnen

Teun Beijnen (Anthonie Christiaan Beijnen, 1899–1949), Dutch rower of Laga Delft; with Willy Rösingh won the 1924 Paris Olympic coxless pairs, the first Dutch Olympic rowing gold, later a Beusichem resistance leader.

Thomas Ebert

Thomas Ebert (born 1973, Roskilde), Danish lightweight rower of the Guldfireren; two Olympic golds (2004, 2008) and bronze (2000) in the lightweight coxless four, seven world titles, 25 Danish championships.

Thomas Greiner

Thomas Greiner (born 1963, Dresden) is an East German rower, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the coxless fours, four-time world champion, later a FISA international referee and Thomas Keller Medal winner.

Thomas Lange

Thomas Lange (born 1964, Eisleben) is a German rower and plastic surgeon, Olympic single sculls champion 1988 for East Germany and 1992 for reunified Germany, bronze 1996, multiple world champion, Thomas Keller Medal 1997.

Thomas Mollenkamp

Thomas Mollenkamp (Thomas Möllenkamp), born 1961 in Osnabrück, is a retired West German rower; he won gold in the men's eight at Seoul 1988 and placed fourth in the coxless pairs at Los Angeles 1984.

Thomas Poulsen

Thomas Poulsen (born 1970, Hørsholm) is a Danish lightweight rower, member of the Guldfireren crew that won 1996 Olympic gold in the lightweight coxless four, a five-time world champion, and later a Danish national rowing coach.

Thor Kristensen

Thor Kristensen (Hans Thor Juul Kristensen, born 1980, Silkeborg) is a Danish rower who won 2004 Athens Olympic gold in the lightweight coxless four with Ebert, Mølvig, and Ebbesen, plus 2002 and 2003 world titles.

Tim Foster

Tim Foster (Timothy James Carrington Foster, born 1970), British rower, Sydney 2000 Olympic gold and Atlanta 1996 bronze in the coxless four with Redgrave, Pinsent, and Cracknell; later coach of the Swiss team and LMA Head of Performance.

Tim Grohmann

Tim Grohmann, born 1988 in Dresden, is a German former rower who won Olympic gold in the quadruple sculls at the 2012 London Games and later became a national coach in Dresden.

Tinka Offereins

Tinka Offereins, Dutch rower (born 1993, Amstelveen), Olympic champion women's four Paris 2024, world champion four 2023 and eight 2025, Okeanos and TeamNL athlete.

Tom Amlong

Tom Amlong (Thomas Kennedy Amlong, 1935–2009), American Army officer and Vesper Boat Club rower; won gold in the men's eight at Tokyo 1964 (6:18.23) with brother Joe, first UVA graduate to win Olympic gold.

Tom Charlton

Tom Charlton (Thomas Jackson Charlton, Jr., born 1934, Savannah, Georgia) is an American rower, not the Australian broadcaster Tony Charlton; he captained the Yale eight that won Olympic gold in the men's eights at Melbourne 1956 in 6:35.2.

Tom Digby

Tom Digby (Thomas William Kenelm Digby, born 1998, Henley-on-Thames) is a British rower, Paris 2024 Olympic champion in the men's eight, two-time world and three-time European champion, Yale graduate, and 2026 hip-surgery comeback Henley winner.

Tom James

Tom James (Thomas Watkin James, born 1984) is a Welsh-British rower who won Olympic gold in the men's coxless four at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, plus 2011 World gold; MBE, retired 2013.

Tom Mackintosh

Tom Mackintosh (Thomas Mackintosh, born 1997, Wellington) is a New Zealand rower, 197 cm, Olympic gold medallist in the men's eight at Tokyo 2020, 2023 world single sculls bronze medallist, fifth at Paris 2024, and Oxford Boat Club president 2024-25.

Tom Murray (olympedia 135406)

Tom Murray (Thomas James Murray, born 1994, Blenheim, New Zealand) is a NZL rower, Olympedia 135406: gold in the men's eight at Tokyo 2020, silver in the coxless four at Paris 2024, sixth in the eight at Rio 2016; distinct from the 1924 GBR curler and 1996 US rower of the same name.

Tom Pollock

Tom Pollock refers to two Olympians: American rower Thomas Elmer Pollock III (born 1943), 7th in the 1964 Tokyo coxed four, later a lawyer and novelist, and Canadian defenseman Thomas Allen Pollock (1925–1994), 1952 Oslo ice hockey gold medalist.

Tom Price

Tom Price (Thomas Steele Price) is an American rower who won Olympic gold in the men's coxless pairs at the 1952 Helsinki Games with Charles Logg.

Tom Ransley

Tom Ransley (Thomas Matthew Ransley, born 1985 in Ashford, Kent) is a retired British rower who won gold in the men's eight at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Tomasz Kucharski

Tomasz Bogusław Kucharski (born 1974, Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish rower who with Robert Sycz won Olympic gold in the lightweight double sculls at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004, plus world titles in 1997 and 1998.

Tone Wieten

Tone Wieten (born 1994, Amsterdam) is a Dutch rower, two-time Olympic champion in the men's quadruple sculls (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) and Rio 2016 eight bronze medallist; world champion 2019 and 2023; retired March 2025.

Toni Rom

Toni Rom (Carl Anton Rom, Anton Rom), German rower, 1909-1994, Würzburg; won gold in the men's coxless fours at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with Eckstein, Karl, and Menne.

Tony Hurt

Tony Hurt (Anthony John Hurt, born 1946, Auckland) is a New Zealand rower who stroked the national eight to Olympic gold at Munich 1972 and bronze at Montreal 1976, with a 1971 European title and 1974 world bronze.