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Olympic round three of five set for Bath this weekend
The biggest batch of testing of potential future GB Olympians ever conducted in this country – featuring over 2000 people – is approaching its half-way stage, with the third of five testing rounds due to take place at the University […]
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Strong GB Performance at Coupe
Great Britain put in a strong performance at this weekend’s Coupe de la Jeunesse in Varese, Italy, finishing second overall and winning three golds across the 25-event, two-day competition. Two of Britain’s golds came from the girls’ quadruple scull who […]
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A gold and six bronzes in Strathclyde
Heather Stanning, from Lossiemouth, and Olivia Whitlam, gave the home crowd cause for celebration by taking women’s pair gold at the World U23 Championships at Strathclyde Park this afternoon alongside Britain’s six other medals – all bronzes – on the […]
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Best GB showing in-depth at World U23s
GB rowers produced Britain’s best in-depth performance to date at any World U23 championships by qualifying 11 from 12 possible boats for tomorrow’s finals due to be held at Strathclyde Park. In choppy and breezy conditions the men’s eight and […]
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Composed scullers through to semis
Racing "well within" themselves, according to Matt Wells, the British men’s double scull, sponsored by Siemens, of Wells and Stephen Rowbotham won their World Championship quarter-final here in Munich today and will now race in Thursday’s semi-finals. Alan Campbell, the […]
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GB Announces World Junior Champs Team
Great Britain has today announced 26 rowers in seven boats to compete at the World Junior Championships in Beijing from August 8-11th. The event doubles as the official test event for the Olympic Games next year. Lottie Howard-Merrill, from Headington […]
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Selectors confident of Partridge fitness
Great Britain’s rowing selectors showed today that they are confident Alex Partridge will recover from a recent knee injury in time to race in the defending world champion men’s four, sponsored by Camelot, at this year’s world championships and Olympic […]
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History made twice in Lucerne
Great Britain made history twice today on Lucerne’s Rotsee Lake at the world cup finals when they won their first world cup gold of all time in the lightweight men’s four – from the Siemens-sponsored British crew of Richard Chambers, […]
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Medals from all contested International Classes
Great Britain rounded off a good day at Lucerne’s Rotsee venue with medals from all four international class finals that they contested after 11 crews had earlier qualified for tomorrow’s Olympic class finals through heats, repechages, semi-finals and seeding races. […]
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Eleven crews in Olympic class finals
Britain has 11 finalists in Olympic class events at the world cup finals here in Lucerne after some solid semi-final and repechage performances today including semi-final wins for the Siemens-backed men’s double scull of Stephen Rowbotham and Matt Wells alongside […]
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