Sir Matthew Pinsent CBE

Sir Matthew Pinsent CBE is a four-time Olympic rowing champion and BBC broadcaster. He won gold at four consecutive Olympic Games and ten World Championship titles, and speaks about partnership, teamwork and sustaining performance over more than a decade at the top of his sport.

Matthew rowed for Oxford in the Boat Race, winning in 1990 and 1991. In 1992 he won his first Olympic gold in Barcelona in the coxless pair with Steve Redgrave, and the pair won again in Atlanta in 1996. He then moved into the coxless four, winning gold in Sydney in 2000 alongside Redgrave, James Cracknell and Tim Foster, and again in Athens in 2004. The build-up to Sydney was followed in the BBC documentary series Gold Fever.

After Sydney he formed a coxless pair with James Cracknell. The crew went unbeaten in 2001 and set a world record in the event. In 2001 Matthew was elected to the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission, where he represented athletes until 2004.

He was appointed MBE in 1993 and CBE in 2001, and was knighted after retiring in 2004. In 2005 the International Rowing Federation awarded him the Thomas Keller Medal for an outstanding international rowing career. His autobiography, A Lifetime in a Race, was published in 2004.

Since retiring Matthew has worked for the BBC as a sports presenter and reporter, covering every Summer Olympics since Beijing 2008 as well as the Commonwealth Games, Henley Royal Regatta and the Boat Race. He directed Unbelievable: The Chad le Clos Story, a documentary following the South African swimmer to the Rio Olympics. In 2012 he rowed on the royal barge Gloriana in the Diamond Jubilee Pageant and carried the Olympic torch on the Thames.

As a motivational and after-dinner speaker, Matthew has appeared at corporate events for organisations including Procter & Gamble, IBM, BT, NatWest, Camelot and Lombard. He draws on two of British sport's most successful crew partnerships to show how trust, preparation and clear roles turn talented individuals into a winning team.