Jon Schofield (canoeist)

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Jon Schofield
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London K-2 200 m
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2011 Szeged K-2 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2010 Poznań K-1 4 x 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2013 Duisburg K–2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Poznań K-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Moscow K-1 4x200 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Zagreb K-2 200 m

Jon Schofield (born 10 May 1985) is a British canoeist. Schofield is a member of the Soar Valley Canoe Club and is coached by Alex Nikonorov.[1]

The BBC says that he hails from Clitheroe,[2] although the TeamGB website says he was born in Petersfield, Hampshire.[3] He attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and was guest speaker at the school's 2013 Sports Awards evening. Schofield won the Junior World Championships in Bala, North Wales in 2002. He became European champion in 2007.[4] In the flatwater sprint kayaking discipline, with Ben Brown he competed in the 500m K2 at the 2007 World Championships, but in finishing in 9th place, failed to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[4]

During his first season with Liam Heath they won gold medals in the K2 200m at the 2nd World Cup in Szeged and the 3rd World Cup in Duisburg and became European Champions in July 2010. They won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-1 4 x 200m relay and a bronze in the K-2 200m event. In the 2011 international season Schofield and Heath won two silver medals at World Cups 1 and 2 at Poznan and Račice and retained their K2 200m title at the European Championships in Belgrade in June 2011.[5] At the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged in August they won the silver medal, thereby gaining qualification for the GB K2 boat in the Men's 200m event at the 2012 Olympics. A fortnight after the World Championships Heath and Schofield took part in the London Invitational Olympic Canoe Sprint test event at Eton-Dorney where they won the Bronze medal in the K2 200m. At the end of 2011 Liam and Jon received Olympic Athlete of the Year awards from the British Olympic Association.

At the National Regatta in Nottingham in April 2012, Liam and Jon met GB Canoeing's K2 200m nomination criteria to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympiad. They won silver medals in World Cup 1 in Poznan and World Cup 2 in Duisburg and were part of the four-man GB 200m relay team that won the gold medal in Duisburg.[6] Schofield and Heath formally became members of Team GB on 14 June 2012. A week later, at the European Canoe Sprint Championships in Zagreb they won the K2 200m title for the third year in a row.[7] Representing Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's K-2 200 metres, he and Liam Heath finished 2nd in their heat, 4th overall, qualifying for the semifinals.[1][8] Schofield graduated from Loughborough University in Human Biology in June 2010. He resides in Maidenhead, Berkshire.[3]

References

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