Meet the men of Team USA ready to race eights at Paris 2024

Christian Tabash

After discovering rowing at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Christian Tabash set to make her Olympic debut 18 years later in Paris. In 2016, Tabash was awarded first-team All-Met honors by the Washington Post, before winning silver in the eight at the 2017 World Junior Championships and bronze in the coxed four at the World Junior Championships. U23 rowing 2021. Championships. He has an impressive resume beyond the boat, as he is fluent in French and Haitian Creole and fluent in Spanish and Arabic. He also enjoys reading about history and politics, plays the piano and enjoys watching football. Paris will therefore be an exciting scene for the Virginia native.

Nick Rusher

Born to parents who were both Olympic rowers, Nick Rusher will attempt to bring back some hardware from Paris after narrowly missing the podium to finish fourth at the 2022 World Championships. Rusher cites his father, Jack, a two-time Olympian, as his personal hero, telling US Rowing “he’s always been a pillar of strength” who taught him to “never give up in the face of adversity”. Once his athletic career ends, Rusher hopes to use his degree in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from Yale to transition into a career in cancer research.

Henry Hollingsworth

At the front of the men’s eight that will race in Paris is Henry Hollingsworth, former captain of the Brown University rowing team. He earned second-team IRCA All-American and All-Ivy honors for the second time during his junior and senior years respectively, and went on to compete in two world championships before being selected to represent the United States in Paris. While still at university, Hollingsworth reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 Henley Royal Regatta, then in 2022 he won the coveted Head of the Charles gold medal in the championship eight. The six-foot-two athlete is also a guitarist in a band.