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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 March 1964 Canberra, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Mercantile Rowing Club Torrens Rowing Club | ||||||||||||||
| Now coaching | British Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| World finals | Juniors 1982 U23 1985 | ||||||||||||||
| National finals | Kings Cup 1987, 1988 | ||||||||||||||
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Paul Anthony Thompson MBE (born 15 March 1964, Canberra) is an Australian elite level rowing coach and former rower. As a rower he was an Australian under-age champion, won a silver medal at the 1985 U23 World Championships and rowed in senior King's Cup eights for both South Australia and New South Wales. He has coached Australian and British crews to World Championship titles and Olympic medals including taking Kate Slatter and Megan Still to Australia's first women's Olympic rowing gold at Atlanta 1996. By 2012 he was Great Britain's head coach for women and lightweights and took British crews to three gold and two silver medals at London 2012. Since 2022 he has been Rowing Australia's High Performance Director.