Authors
Team sheet
Editors
Tom Ransley
At Rio 2016, racing in the British men’s eight, Tom added Olympic champion to his European and two world championship titles. He won a bronze medal at London 2012, his first Olympics. An honorary lifetime member of York City Rowing Club he helped win the club’s first Henley Royal Regatta trophy.
Benedict Tufnell
Benedict joined Row360 as a staff photographer in 2016 and worked his way up to co-editor. In March 2021 he became the official photographer of World Rowing, the international federation for the sport. He covered the Tokyo Paralympics and Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Writers
Kate Apfelbaum
Kate Apfelbaum, from a rowing family, coxed Trinity’s men’s crew for four seasons and became its captain, reportedly the first woman to lead a Trinity men’s varsity team. At Oxford, she coxed Isis to a record-setting 2012 win over Goldie. She now leads communications at Excel Academy.
Ceci Browning
Known best for her candid interviews, Ceci is a sports and lifestyle journalist based in central London. Inspired by her godmother, who was part of the 1997 Oxford Women’s Boat Race crew and then the British squad, Ceci learnt to row during her time at the University of Cambridge, where she studied Politics and International Relations. Never far from a river, she likes to capture what happens on the water in words.
Mark Homer
Dr Mark Homer is a senior lecturer at Buckinghamshire New University. Prior to teaching Homer was an applied sport scientist in elite sport. He worked as an exercise physiologist and as the Head of High Performance Science & Medicine with British Rowing, and as a sport scientist with British Swimming. A graduate of the University of Wolverhampton, Homer completed his doctorate with Professor Greg Whyte at Liverpool John Moores University, while working in elite sport. His specialist area of interest is the physiological determinants of rowing performance and training distribution in endurance sport. He has worked with many elite athletes and coaches such as Helen Glover, Katherine Grainger, Andy Triggs-Hodge, and James Guy, and has provided physiological support to Team GB athletes at the Beijing, London, and Rio Olympic Games.
Rachel Quarrell
Rachel started rowing for a bet in the summer of 1987, and was promptly hooked, learning to cox a term later. She coxed at club, elite and at several international regattas, winning with over 30 clubs, and won a bronze medal steering a Commonwealth New Zealand M4+ which included Mahé Drysdale. As a journalist she has covered five Olympic Games and, in 2002, became the The Telegraph's rowing correspondent.
Photographers
Naomi Baker
Naomi is a UK based Staff Photographer at Getty Images specialising in Sport. Working previously as a Club Photographer at Southampton FC and also as the GB Rowing Team photographer. She graduated from Canterbury Christchurch University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography and went on to Win the Sports Journalism Young Photographer of the Year 2018 Award.
Kevin Light
Kevin Light Photography is based in Victoria, British Columbia Canada and provides editorial, commercial and event style photography to local, national and international clients. As a member of Canada's National Rowing Team winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Kevin understands and enjoys working under pressure and being part of a team that is trying to achieve a common goal.
Steve McArthur
A fifth generation New Zealand horticulturalist, Steve is New Zealand’s most published and travelled rowing photojournalist. The son of a rower, husband to a rower, father of four rowers and unknown for being four-seat of an eight for a few seasons, where everyone in front (including the cox) competed at the Olympics.