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{{short description|British rower}}
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| name           = Ed Coode <br /> <small>[[Order of the British Empire|MBE]]</small>
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| birth_name     = Edward Robert Coode
| nationality    = British
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| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1975|06|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place    = [[Indian Queens]], Cornwall, England
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| country        = United Kingdom
| sport          = Men's [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]]
| event          = Coxless four
| collegeteam    = [[Oxford University Boat Club]]
| club           = [[Leander Club]]
                   [[Imperial College Boat Club]]
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| retired        = 2004
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{{MedalGold  | [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]] | [[Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four|Coxless four]]}}
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{{MedalGold|[[1999 World Rowing Championships|1999 St. Catharines]] | Coxless four}}
{{MedalGold|[[2001 World Rowing Championships|2001 Lucerne]]|Coxless four}}
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{{MedalBronze|[[2003 World Rowing Championships|2003 Milan]]| Eight}}
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'''Edward R. Coode''', [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] (born 19 June 1975) is a British [[Rowing (sport)|rower]], twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist.

==Early life==
Born in [[Cornwall]] in 1975,<ref name="SR profile">{{cite Sports-Reference |title = Ed Coode |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/ed-coode-1.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417214528/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/ed-coode-1.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 17 April 2020 |access-date = 17 December 2016}}</ref> Coode boarded at [[Papplewick School]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Old Papplewickian|url=http://www.papplewick.org.uk/assets/newsletter-2006.pdf | issue=6 |date=2006|page=9}}</ref> and [[Eton College]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Jackson|first=Joanna|title=A Year in the Life of Windsor and Eton|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuVc8XibBqIC|publisher=Francis Lincoln|year=2011|isbn=9780711229365|pages=62}}</ref> He studied marine biology at [[University of Newcastle upon Tyne]] and [[Keble College, Oxford|Keble College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], and rowed in the Oxford crew at the 1998 [[Boat Race]].

==Career==
Coode won his first World Championship in 1999, as a substitute in the British men's coxless four, rowing with [[Steve Redgrave]], [[Matthew Pinsent]] and [[James Cracknell]]. When [[Tim Foster]] returned to the four, Coode was put into the coxless pair with [[Greg Searle]]. They finished fourth at the [[2000 Sydney Olympics]] having led for most of the race and being overtaken by three crews in the last 600 m, finishing 12/100th of a second (about 2 feet) out of third place.

In 2001, he won a second World Championship in the men's coxless four with [[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]], [[Rick Dunn]] and [[Toby Garbett]]. In 2002, he missed the World Championships due to injury, [[Josh West]] taking his place in the coxless four, and was in the men's eight in 2003 that won the bronze at that year's world championships.

With the injury to [[Alex Partridge]], Coode was moved from the eight to the coxless four for the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in Athens, rowing with Pinsent, Cracknell and Williams. In a close race with World champions Canada, they won gold.

==Retirement==
In October 2004, Coode announced he was retiring from rowing – taking a year out to travel in South America and then study for a law degree at [[University of the West of England]] in Bristol.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ed Coode joins Coodes' Private Client Team|url=http://coodes.co.uk/news/ed-coode-joins-coodes-private-client-team/|publisher=coodes.co.uk|date=4 February 2010}}</ref> Following two years at university he spent two years as a trainee solicitor at Bristol firm [[Burges Salmon]] and returned to Cornwall, where his family has had business interests and owned land since the 19th century. He joined the family-founded law firm Coodes Solicitors and left in 2022 to run the estate management business. In 2025 he was appointed chair of the [[Country Land and Business Association]] Cornwall branch.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ed Coode takes the helm as Chairman of CLA Cornwall Branch|url=https://www.cla.org.uk/south-west-news/ed-coode-takes-the-helm-as-chairman-of-cla-cornwall-branch/|publisher=[[Country Land and Business Association]]|date=14 April 2025}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Coode was appointed Member of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[2005 New Year Honours]] for services to sport.<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/57509/supplement "New Year Honours--United Kingdom"], ''The London Gazette of Thursday 30 December 2004 Supplement No. 1''; accessed 28 August 2022.</ref>

On 17 September 2005 Coode married Clare Smales in the [[St Mary's and St Julian's Church, Maker|St Mary's and St Julian's Church]], [[Maker, Cornwall|Maker]], Cornwall. They have four children.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}

==Achievements==

* [[Rowing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic]] Medals: 1 Gold
* [[World Rowing Championships|World Championship]] Medals: 2 Gold, 2 Bronze
* [[Junior World Rowing Championships|Junior World Championship]] Medals: 1 Silver
* [[Oxford University Boat Club|Oxford University]] [[Boat Race|Blue Boat]] (lost)

===Olympic Games===
*2004 – Gold, Coxless four (with [[James Cracknell]], [[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]], [[Matthew Pinsent]])
*2000 – 4th, Coxless pair (with [[Greg Searle]])

===World championships===

*2003 – Bronze, Eight
*2001 – Gold, Coxless four (with [[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]], [[Rick Dunn]], [[Toby Garbett]])
*1999 – Gold, Coxless four (with [[Steve Redgrave]], [[Matthew Pinsent]], [[James Cracknell]])
*1998 – 7th, Eight
*1997 – Bronze, Coxed four

===Junior World championships===
*1993 – Silver, Coxless four

== References ==
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk/ed_coode.aspx Ed Coode – The London Speaker Bureau]
* {{FISA|2130}}

{{Olympic champions – Men's coxless four}}
{{World champions – Men's coxless four}}

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