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Armstrong and Boulton take prestigious awards
GB Rowing Team Lead Coach for Juniors, Richard Boulton, has won the prestigious Performance-Development Coach of the Year Award which was presented at the UK Coaching Awards Dinner in London last night. Boulton, who has coached crews to junior gold at […]
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Flood takes women’s title whilst Nichol takes surprise second at the season’s big indoor rowing event
Double Olympic silver medallist Debbie Flood won the season’s big indoor rowing event at the weekend in Birmingham in a time of 6:52.2. Competing at the National Indoor Arena, the Olympic silver medallist was pleased with her win despite only […]
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Six “Toms” and nine Beijing medallists
Six “Toms” from the GB Rowing Team men’s squad will be in action at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, this Sunday for the season’s big indoor rowing challenge – something that hopefully the weather can’t derail after cancellations of the […]
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Return To Action
Olympic champions Mark Hunter, Zac Purchase and Tom James as well as twice Olympic silver medallists Debbie Flood and Frances Houghton have returned to action this week with The GB Rowing Team after a year’s break from the sport. Cox […]
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Rio de Janeiro awarded 2016 Olympics
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge announced on 5th October that the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Rio de Janeiro was victorious following a voting process involving the 106 IOC […]
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‘Class of 78’ step back in the boat
On 19th September, double Olympic Gold Medallist Andy Holmes returned to the Hammersmith school that introduced him to the sport to race with his ‘Class of 78’ year group crew. Despite having an average age of 48, the crew took […]
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GB ranked 2nd at the European Universities Sports Association Regatta
GB’s student squad have returned from the European Universities Sports Association (EUSA) Regatta with an impressive 11 podium positions: 1 gold, 4 silver and 6 bronze. The team, formed of 97 athletes from 18 different university pushed themselves up the overall […]
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GB add a silver and bronze on final day of World Championships
The GB Rowing Team added a silver and bronze to their tally on the closing day of the World Championships on Poznan’s Lake Malta – bringing the number of medals won to nine – six Olympic, two Paralympic and one […]
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A gold and four silvers for GB at the World Championships
Great Britain’s rowers won a gold and four silvers at the World Championships in Poznan, Poland, today.[img_assist|nid=3404|title=The GB men’s four salute their gold|desc=Picture: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=476|height=299] Matthew Langridge, Alex Gregory, Ric Egington and Alex Partridge were peerless in taking men’s four […]
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Two Paralympic class golds for GB at world rowing championships
Great Britain’s adaptive squad won two golds and took a fifth place in the Paralympic classes at the World Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland, today.[img_assist|nid=3409|title=Thumbs up from Aggar as he defends his world title in world best time|desc=Picture: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=209|height=231] […]
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