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Sir Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent won the rowing men's coxless pair at Atlanta 1996 for GB's only gold, in case you were wondering.

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2024

He and a teammate, James Fifer, won gold in the coxless pairs event at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2022

She learned how to row a scull in 2015 and won a bronze medal in the women’s coxless pair at the Southeast Asian Games hosted by Singapore later that year.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

The women’s coxless four returns to competition for the first time since 1992, but it replaces the men’s lightweight coxless four.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2021

And nothing makes him cry “like the women’s rowing coxless pair or four or eight winning a gold medal, which I don’t do with male sport.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2019