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Both GB Rowing Team eights through to finals at Worlds
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 […]
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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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World Rowing Championships Start List
The 2010 World Rowing Championships provisional racing programme has been released. The Championships will feature eight days of racing on Lake Karapirio, 31 October – 7 November. For the first time the World Rowing Championships will feature four days of […]
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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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Sad news: Andy Holmes, Olympic gold medallist, has died
It is with great sorrow that British Rowing reports the tragic and untimely death of Andy Holmes, 51 years old, on Sunday 24th October. Andy Holmes rowed at the Olympics in 1984 and 1988, winning a gold medal on each occasion. In Los […]
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Gold Medal Winning Crews to Receive a Maori Treasure
Every member of each gold medal winning crew at the 2010 World Rowing Championships will receive a unique Maori greenstone taonga (treasure) at the official medal ceremony. The specially carved greenstone pounamu, commissioned by local iwi Ngati Koroki Kahukura, were […]
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