A Lifetime in a Race

Author:

By Matthew Pinsent

Awards:

William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award Short Listed 2004

Format:

Paperback (Hardback)

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Price:

£7.99 £7.19 (Save 10%)

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Water Sports, Rowing, Biography, Olympics, Matthew Pinsett, Coxless Fours

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Further Details

• Published: 2nd Jun 2005
• ISBN: 0091903386
• Pages: 352

From the Publisher:

With his last-gasp victory as part of the Great British coxless four team at the Athens Olympics, Matthew Pinsent clinched an historic fourth Olympic Gold to add to the three already won with his legendary rowing partner Steve Redgrave. In an uniquely exciting and evocative autobiography, Pinsent interweaves the build-up to Athens 2004 with the extraordinary story of his career and unforgettable partnership with Redgrave. Plucked from obscurity at the age of 20, told to partner his hero, and trained to within an inch of his life, Pinsent's story is uniquely revealing about what it takes to be a champion and the mixed blessings of success.

Culminating with a nail-biting final chapter detailing the team's extraordinary victory in Athens in blow-by-blow detail, A Lifetime in a Race is a sports book in a different mould.

From the Critics:

“A good book, well-written, informative, engaging, revealing ... The insights Pinsent brings to his sport are worth the price alone”

Sunday Times

“I much enjoyed Matthew Pinsent's A lifetime in a Race, partly because he wrote it himself, partly because he turned out to be such a likeable and interesting guy, and partly because it gently taught me a great deal about rowing”

John Gaustad, Evening Standard

“The most insightful of the post Olympic books in which the super-human rower demonstrates a reflectiveness that is rare among sportspeople...He writes superbly”

Independent on Sunday

“A gripping account of his life and most recent times. He deftly conveys the sheer effort needed to survive the brutal training regimes in top-level rowing, as well as the obsessive intensity that brought him his Olympic haul”

The Independent

“A very honest book - not in a sensational way - but more revealing in the realities of training, competing and racing ....Extremely enjoyable”

Daily Telegraph