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Grainger has Trials “wow factor”
[img_assist|nid=2944|title=Matt Wells challenged Alan Campbell all the way at the Trials|desc=Photo: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=322|height=263]Katherine Grainger took her eighth career title at the GB Rowing trials today. Her victory by seven seconds in the women’s single scull had the day’s "wow factor" […]
Read MoreHodge wins semi in “new” event
Andy Triggs Hodge, Olympic champion in the men’s four and more accustomed to featuring in a pair at the annual GB Rowing Senior Trials, won his men’s single scull semi-final at the event in Belgium today with a second-half surge […]
Read More27 “world class” rowers make GB Senior trials grade
[img_assist|nid=2941|title=Anna Bebington (left) is a world class start graduate who took Olympic bronze in Beijing|desc=Photo: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=313|height=162]27 rowers, who have been identified or nurtured by the ARA’s World Class Start Scheme, sponsored by Siemens and supported by the National Lottery, […]
Read MoreGrainger and Campbell show strongly at GB Rowing Senior Trials
[img_assist|nid=2939|title=Katherine Grainger showed strongly in today’s time trial racing|desc=Photo: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=322|height=272]Katherine Grainger and Alan Campbell, both multi-previous title winners, started strongly at today’s GB Rowing Senior Trials in Hazewinkel, Belgium, in the women’s and men’s single scull events. Three-times Olympic […]
Read MoreHodge to race a single at trials
[img_assist|nid=2932|title=Andy Hodge with his Beijing gold medal|desc=Photo: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=568|height=640] Andy Triggs Hodge, Olympic champion in the men’s four, will contest this weekend’s GB Rowing Senior Trials (Sunday 12 and Monday 13th) in a single scull but says that Alan Campbell […]
Read MoreWorld Class Start talent tackles Tideway
A trio of girls on the ARA’s World Class Start scheme, sponsored by Siemens and backed by the National Lottery, achieved a third place finish at the Women’s Head of the River, held on Saturday 7 March on the […]
Read MoreTop British women return to their clubs for Women’s Head of the River
2008 Beijing Olympic medallists Katherine Grainger, Debbie Flood and Annabel Vernon will go from crewmates to competitors when they compete for their respective clubs at the Women’s Head of the River Race on the Thames on Saturday 7 March at […]
Read MoreThompson and Grobler at the River and Rowing Museum
Over the next month the River and Rowing Museum will be the venue for talks from some of the top names in British Rowing. Paul Thompson, chief women and lightweight’s coach will give a talk ‘From Sydney 2000 to London 2012 The Olympic Experience’ on Saturday 28th February. […]
Read MoreGB Rowing Technique Seminars
On the 8th March (15th March in the WAGS region), demonstrations and explanations of GB Rowing Technique will be given by leading GB coaches at sessions throughout the country. Each region will have it’s own seminar consisting of two sessions: […]
Read MoreFreeman-Pask and Hosking take lightweight trials wins
Adam Freeman-Pask and Sophie Hosking were winners of the lightweight single scull events at Saturday’s third GB Rowing Winter Assessment Trials. Freeman-Pask came down the 5km time trial course at Boston, Lincolnshire, in a time of 16:27.92 just under […]
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