Cedol Dafydd

Cedol Dafydd (born 4 October 2000) is a Welsh rower. Competing in the quadruple sculls, he won a gold medal for Great Britain at the 2025 European Championships and a silver medal at the 2025 World Championships.

Cedol Dafydd

Personal information
Born	(2000-10-04) 4 October 2000 (age 25)[1]
Education	University of Bath
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Medal record Men's rowing Representing  Great Britain World Championships 2025 Shanghai Quadruple sculls European Championships 2025 Plovdiv Quadruple sculls

Biography

From Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, he was a member of Swim Gwynedd performance club, played rugby union at Bangor RFC, and also competed in long-distance running prior to taking up rowing.^[2][3] Dafydd began his rowing career with the Bath, Somerset-based South West Performance Development Academy. He was educated at the University of Bath, graduating in Sports Management and Coaching.^[4]

He won the gold medal at the 2025 European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv in the men's quadruple sculls, as the team of Dafydd, Rory Harris, Callum Dixon, and Matt Haywood achieved a European best time of five minutes and 35 seconds.^[5] It was Great Britain's first ever European gold in the men’s quadruple sculls.^[6] He won the 2025 World Rowing Cup Series with the British men’s quad, placing third in Varese and winning the event in Lucerne.^[7][8]

He won the silver medal at the 2025 World Rowing Championships in Shanghai in the men's quadruple sculls with Harris, Dixon and Haywood.^[9]