The following year he won a gold medal and a world best-time in the under-23 Lightweight Men's Pair event with Chris Bartley at Hazewinkel (Belgium).

He attended his first senior World Rowing Championships later on that summer (held at Dorney Lake) in the Lightweight Men's Pair.

At the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, he won the gold medal in the lightweight men's four, together with Paul Mattick, Rob Williams and Chris Bartley.

[3] He competed at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju, where he won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight double sculls with his brother Peter.

[4] He competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Bosbaan, Amsterdam, where he won a bronze medal as part of the lightweight coxless four with Mark Aldred, Chris Bartley and his brother Richard.