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Callum Dixon (rower)
Callum Dixon OLY (born 22 January 2000) is a British rower. He won a gold medal in the men's double sculls at the 2021 European Rowing Under-23s Championships and is currently competing for Great Britain in the men's quadruple sculls at the 2024 Summer Olympics. BiographyBorn and raised in Tower Hamlets,[3] Dixon has severe dyslexia which means he can only read about 25 words.[4] After a short stint in mainstream education, he was home-schooled alongside his three siblings and has no GCSE or A-Level qualifications, although, with help from his mother, he achieved a psychology degree from the Open University.[4] From a young age he took part in a variety of sports including tennis, climbing and swimming but found his main passion was sailing.[3] Dixon joined the British sailing team in 2016 competing in the Finn class and progressed through the age-group categories to compete on the World Cup circuit,[5] but when it was dropped from the Olympic programme he decided to change sports to pursue his ambition of being an Olympian.[3][4] At the suggestion of Olympic sailing champion Giles Scott, whose brother Nick was British Rowing head of performance at the time, Dixon turned his hand to rowing.[3][4] He made it onto the British rowing squad, winning a gold medal at the 2021 European Rowing Under-23s in Poland in the men's double sculls with Nathan Hull.[6][7] Dixon made his Rowing World Cup debut in 2022[4] and was in the men's quadruple sculls boat which finished fourth at the 2023 European Rowing Championships in Slovenia,[8] and the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Serbia[9][10] although the disappointment on missing out on a medal at the latter was tempered by the fact their performance was good enough to gain qualification for the 2024 Summer Olympics.[11] It was fourth again for Dixon and his men's quadruple sculls teammates at the 2024 European Rowing Championships in Hungary.[12] In June 2024, Dixon was named in the Great Britain rowing team for that year's Summer Olympics in Paris as part of the men's quadruple sculls squad.[13][14][15] At the Games, the crew finished second in their heat to secure a place in the final[16][17] where they came fourth.[18] References
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