Sir David Whitlock Tanner CBE (born 29 December 1947 in London) was the performance director for the British Rowing Team until February 2018.
He first achieved a place in the vanguard of British rowing when he coached a team of 4 inexperienced boys from Ealing Grammar School and took them through to medal success in the World Championships and to a bronze medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
[1] In 1992 he was appointed team leader to GB rowing for the Olympic games of that year.
Following the 1996 Olympic games Tanner was appointed, with the support of lottery funding, a full-time position of Performance Director to GB rowing.
[2] He announced on 15 December 2017 that he would be standing down from his post of Performance Director at the end of February 2018.