Both GB Rowing Team eights through to finals at Worlds

Monday, 1 November 2010

Both British eights qualified for Sunday’s finals at the World Championships on New Zealand’s Karapiro lake today – the men by winning their heat and the women by taking the second qualifying slot behind the USA. The Dan Ritchie-stroked GB […]

Day Two Racing Dominated by Two Countries

Monday, 1 November 2010

Day two of racing at the 2010 World Rowing Championships saw New Zealand and Great Britain take ten wins each on Lake Karapiro. The first race of the day, and the first win for Great Britain was in the women’s […]

Eight GB Rowing Team crews affected as racing is cancelled for the day at world champs

Sunday, 31 October 2010

Racing has been abandoned for the remainder of day one at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand due to continuing high winds, FISA (the world rowing federation) has announced. “The latest weather report shows that the wind will not […]

Fourth and fifth to add to yesterday’s World Junior Championships medals

Sunday, 8 August 2010

The GB Rowing team rounded off a World  Junior Championships campaign in Racice, Czech Republic, with a fourth and fifth place to add to the two medals won yesterday. Yesterday the GB Rowing Team celebrated one of its best days […]

John Collins

John took up Rowing as part of the Duke of Edinburgh award after a childhood of being rubbish at sport.

Hunter back in GB Rowing Team for first time since Beijing Olympic Games

Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Mark Hunter renews his Beijing 2008 Olympic gold partnership with Zac Purchase in the lightweight men’s double scull at the Munich world cup next weekend (18-20 June) after more than a year out of the sport. Hunter coached in California […]

The GB Rowing Team is set to enter the fray at the World Rowing Championships

Saturday, 22 August 2009

The GB Rowing Team, sponsored by Siemens and backed by funding from the National Lottery, is finalising its preparations for the World Rowing Championships which start in Poznan this Sunday (tomorrow, 23rd August), having arrived in Poland from training bases […]

Will Fletcher

Will Fletcher made his Olympic debut at Rio 2016 in the lightweight men’s double scull – the boat he helped to qualify for the Games by winning silver at the 2015 World Rowing Championships.

Adaptive golden hat-trick and bronze for Freeman Pask

Saturday, 20 June 2009

Britain’s adaptive crews stole the late afternoon limelight in Munich by taking gold in all three events as well as a silver in the men’s single scull. Tom Aggar, reigning Paralympic champion, began the medal rush. He eased past the […]

Nine golds in Banyoles

Sunday, 31 May 2009

GB Rowing’s squad at the first world cup of the season took, numerically, its biggest medal tally of all-time with nine golds, a silver and a bronze from 16 starters in today’s finals. Even as the GB Performance Director David […]