Chris Baillieu

Christopher Latham Baillieu MBE, born in Marylebone on 12 December 1949, is an English former rower who represented Great Britain at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. Educated at Radley College and Jesus College, Cambridge, he rowed in the winning Cambridge boat in the Boat Races of 1970 to 1973 and then concentrated on sculling. With Mike Hart he won the Double Sculls Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in 1973 and 1975, took bronze at the 1974 and 1975 World Rowing Championships, won silver in the double sculls at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and gold at the 1977 World Championships. Rowing with Jim Clark he finished fourth at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He later won the Wingfield Sculls four years running from 1981 and became the first chairman of British Swimming, serving from 2001 to 2008.