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Tanner receives New Year’s CBE
GB Rowing’s Performance Director, David Tanner, has been made a CBE in the New Year’s Honours list, following a year in which Great Britain achieved the nation’s best Olympic medal results in rowing for 100 years topping rowing’s medal tables […]
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Rowers Honoured
Great Britain’s six 2008 Olympic rowing gold medallists have been honoured in the New Year’s Honours List. Steve Williams, already a gold medallist in the men’s four in 2004 and made an MBE four years ago, now receives an OBE […]
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Youth Olympic names announced
The GB rowers who are set to take part in the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival from January 13 – 18 have been announced by the British Olympic Association. 1,600 athletes from 25 nations will take part in the festival, […]
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The GB Women’s eight find silver lining in Athens’ storm clouds
GB Rowing’s women’s eight found a silver medal lining in the cloudy and rainy conditions of a storm-rescheduled European Championships this morning in Athens when they came home just adrift of Romania but ten seconds ahead of the rest of […]
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Four finalists and an international first for Townsend
GB Rowing has four boats through to the finals of the European Championships in Athens on a day when Sam Townsend recorded his first senior international race win in a single scull to reach the semi-finals. Townsend will be joined […]
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Two Golds and a Bronze as GB Tops Table
ParalympicsGB’s rowing squad took two golds and a bronze today as GB topped the table at the sport’s inaugural Paralympic Games regatta on the lake at Shunyi, Beijing.
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Four Crews into Finals
The GB mixed adaptive coxed four and double scull today qualified for tomorrow’s Paralympic Games finals at the Shunyi regatta course by winning and taking second place in their respective repechages. GB has now qualified all four crews for the […]
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Paralympians make positive start
ParalympicsGB’s Tom Aggar and Helene Raynsford won their heats of the men’s and women’s arms-only single sculls respectively today at the Paralympic Games, being held on the Shunyi Regatta course, to qualify directly for Thursday’s finals and create a very […]
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Rowing set to make Paralympic history
Rowing is set to make its own piece of history tomorrow when the sport makes its debut on the Paralympic Games stage.
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Best since 1908
TeamGB’s 2008 rowing contingent became the most successful Olympic rowing squad since 1908 at Shunyi Lake in Beijing when they topped the rowing medal table, taking a gold and two silvers today to add to the gold and two bronzes […]
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