Born and raised in
Tower Hamlets, Dixon has severe
dyslexia which means he can only read about 25 words on a good day. After a short stint in mainstream education, he was home-schooled alongside his three siblings and has no
GCSE or
A-Level qualifications, although, with help from his mother, he achieved a
psychology degree from the
Open University. but when it was dropped from the Olympic programme he decided to change sports to pursue his ambition of being an Olympian. Dixon made his
Rowing World Cup debut in 2022 and the
2023 World Rowing Championships in Serbia although the disappointment on missing out on a medal at the latter was tempered by the fact their performance was good enough to gain qualification for the
2024 Summer Olympics. It was fourth again for Dixon and his men's quadruple sculls teammates at the
2024 European Rowing Championships in Hungary. In June 2024, Dixon was named in the Great Britain rowing team for that year's
Summer Olympics in
Paris as part of the men's quadruple sculls squad. At the Games, the crew finished second in their heat to secure a place in the final where they came fourth. In June 2025, Dixon was a member of the first Great Britain crew to take the gold medal in the men's quadruple sculls at the
European Rowing Championships in
Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He won a silver medal as part of the British men's quadruple sculls crew at the
2025 World Championships in
Shanghai, China, in September 2025. ==References==