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Day Two Racing Dominated by Two Countries
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 […]
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Fizz-filled GB Rowing Team Performance at World Championships Today
The pace of the wind dropped on Lake Karapiro today to create a perfect backdrop for a fizz-filled GB performance on the water at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand. Eight British boats won their Olympic-category event heats with […]
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Eight GB Rowing Team crews affected as racing is cancelled for the day at world champs
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 […]
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GB Rowing Team’s Hosking and Goodsell safely through as racing postponed due to high winds
High winds have given organisers of the 2010 world championships on New Zealand’s Lake Karapiro a headache they had hoped to avoid on the opening day of races. As Britain’s Olympic champions Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter raced into an […]
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Olympic qualifying season begins tomorrow for GB Rowing Team says Tanner
David Tanner, the GB Rowing Team’s Performance Director, says that Britain’s Olympic qualifying season begins in New Zealand when the 2010 World Rowing Championships opens tomorrow on Lake Karapiro and runs until Sunday 7 November. With only 10 months left […]
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Tribute to Andy Holmes MBE
It is with great sadness that the GB Rowing Team has learned of the recent death of multi-Olympic medallist Andy Holmes MBE. Andy won gold as part of the GB team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and followed […]
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Flood and Houghton Back in the Quad
GB Rowing Team has confirmed the line-up for the women’s quad for next month’s World Championships following recent trialling. Beijing silver medalists Frances Houghton and Debbie Flood have been selected into the boat to join Beth Rodford and Annabel […]
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GB Rowing Team’s World Championships squad announced.
Matt Langridge, Alex Gregory, Ric Egington and Alex Partridge, the reigning world men’s four champions, will travel to New Zealand in October to defend their title after being named today in a 61-strong GB Rowing Team for the event which […]
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Gold for GB in Singapore
Fiona Gammond and Georgia Howard-Merrill, both from Oxford, have won the women’s pair gold at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. They took the title in 3:28.60 ahead of Australia in silver and Greece in bronze. After narrowly qualifying […]
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Britain has two boats through to finals of Youth Olympic Games
Britain has two boats through to the finals of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. Ed Nainby-Luxmoore and Caspar Jopling were second in their men’s pair semi-final this morning at Marina Reservoir to reigning world junior champions Michalis Nastopolous […]
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