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GB RowingTeam visits Olympic Park and venues
Britain’s top rowers, back in the UK after their most successful world championships of all time, today kicked off their Olympic qualifying season with a trip to Olympic Park and the offices of the Organising Committee at Canary Wharf. The […]
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Watkins and Grainger win Sunday Times Women’s Team of the Year Award
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins have won the Sunday Times Women’s Team of the Year Award in recognition of their world championships winning performance earlier this month in New Zealand. They received their prize this evening at a ceremony in […]
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Helen Glover takes Silver and a first for Sporting Giants
UK Sport Press Release: Sporting history was made in New Zealand last weekend, where Helen Glover from Cornwall, whose talent for rowing was discovered just three years ago via the UK Sport and English Institute of Sport talent recruitment drive ‘Sporting […]
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GB Rowing Team tops medal table at World Championships
Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger played their role as favourites in the women’s double scull final to perfection on New Zealand’s Lake Karapiro to take gold and help boost the Great Britain Rowing Team to the top of the medal table on the closing afternoon of the 2010 World Championships.
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GB Rowing Team takes world champs gold hat-trick for first time
As the Great Britain Rowing Team’s lightweight men’s four of Chris Bartley, Rob Williams, Paul Mattick and Richard Chambers crossed the line to win gold in New Zealand this afternoon it marked the moment when GB won a hat-trick of […]
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Two golds for GB Rowing Team at World Championships
Olympic champions Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase proved they were back at their best by taking the first of the two golds won by the Great Britain rowing team today at the World Championships on New Zealand’s Lake Karapiro – […]
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Aggar dominates final to take world champs gold at Karapiro
Paralympic champion Tom Aggar proved today why he remains the best in the world when he totally dominated today’s final of the Paralympic-class single scull at the World Championships in New Zealand. For Londoner Aggar it was his third world […]
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Three more GB Rowing Team crews reach world championships finals
Britain’s tally of finalists at the world championships in Karapiro rose briefly to 15 today, 12 of them from Olympic class boats, when Alan Campbell and the lightweight men’s four won their semi-finals and Pete Reed and Andrew Triggs Hodge […]
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Crews Fight for Finals
Day four at the 2010 World Rowing Championships saw athletes fight for spots in both semi and A finals. Kicking off the day was the women’s double sculls repechage, with only four spots available in the A final. The United […]
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GB Rowing team now has 14 finalists at World Championships with six more semis to come
The GB Rowing Team remains on course for a successful World Championships this week in New Zealand with three more crews reaching finals today – the lightweight men’s and women’s double scull and the men’s quad scull. That brings the […]
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