Nickname(s) Noddy Height 1.9 m | Nationality British Weight 90 kg Other name Noddy | |
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Nathaniel “Noddy” Reilly-O'Donnell (born 13 April 1988) is a British rower educated at St Leonard's School, Durham and University College London.
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Junior
Started rowing age 12 at St Leonard's School, Durham. At the 2005 World Junior Championships, he finished 7th overall in the coxed four. At U16 level, he competed in the pair in the J16 GB v France Match. Both he and the GB team won the match. In 2006, he became World Junior Champion in the men's four.
As a Great Britain squad captain at the 2007 Youth Olympic Festival in Australia, Noddy won three medals: two golds in the coxless four and the pair, and a silver in the eight. In the 2009 World Championships in Račice he won a bronze medal at the World U23 Championships in the men's eight.
Senior
At the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Nathaniel and crew mates Alex Partridge, James Foad, Cameron Nichol, Mohamed Sbihi, Greg Searle, Tom Ransley, Dan Ritchie and Phelan Hill won a silver medal in the men's eight.
During the 2011 World Cup Series he raced in the men's eight, taking a silver medal behind Germany in Munich and a bronze in Lucerne.
In the 2015 season he won gold in the men's four at the 2015 European Rowing Championships in Poznan, along with crewmates Alan Sinclair, Tom Ransley and Scott Durant. The same crew finished fifth at the World Cup in Varese. At the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette he won the gold medal in coxed pairs with Matthew Tarrant and Henry Fieldman.