[2] In 1975, Cross along with John Beattie, Robin Roberts and Ian McNuff was a crew member of the Ealing High Schools coxless fours boat coached by their history teacher David Tanner (later Sir David Tanner CBE) which won the silver medal at the World Junior Rowing Championships for Great Britain in Montreal behind East Germany and ahead of West Germany.

[3] In 1978 along with Beattie, David Townsend and McNuff he was a member of the British coxless four boat (coached by Tanner) which won the bronze medal in the 1978 World Rowing Championships at Karapiro, New Zealand behind Russia and East Germany.

The following year in 1979 he was a member of the British coxless four boat (again with Beattie, Townsend and McNuff and coached by Tanner) which won the bronze medal in the 1979 World Rowing Championships at Bled, Yugoslavia behind East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Coached by David Tanner Cross won the gold medal in the coxed four at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with Steve Redgrave, Richard Budgett, Andy Holmes, and Adrian Ellison.

He published an autobiography, Olympic Obsession in 2001,[8] and is currently working part-time as a history teacher at Hampton School.