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Sports Journalist Awards 2008
The outstanding achievement of Olympic rowing champions Tom James, Pete Reed, Andy Triggs-Hodge and Steve Williams was recognised at the Sports Journalist Association of Great Britain Awards held on Wednesday 26th November. The prestigious President’s Award award was presented to the men’s […]
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Olympic Rower is Oxfordshire’s Sportsman of the Year
Olympic rower Steve Williams, MBE was announced as Sportsman of the Year 2008 at the Oxfordshire Sports Awards ceremony, which took place at the Kassam Stadium on Friday 7th November. City of Oxford Rowing Club’s Junior Women’s Coxless Four were the winners of the […]
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UK Sport’s Elite Coaches Graduate
From UK Sport: ‘On presenting the Elite Coach class of 2008 with their certificates, Jurgen Grobler, Head Coach to the victorious men’s four in Beijing as well as the gold medal winning British boats from the previous four Olympic Games, […]
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Reed to Continue to London 2012
2008 Olympic gold medallist Peter Reed today became the first member of Britain’s gold medal-winning four to announce publicly that he will continue in the sport towards the Olympic Games of London 2012. 27 year old Reed, who is a […]
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Paralympian supports Youth Sport Trust awards
Alastair Mckean, rowing Paralympian and bronze medallist at the Beijing games, was at the School and Sport Partnerships’ Conference held in Telford on 15th October. Pictured above with Baroness Sue Campbell, the Chairman of UK Sport and the Youth Sport Trust, Alastair talked about […]
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World Rowing Awards – 2008 finalists announced
From World Rowing: The finalists in the World Rowing 2008 Awards will be narrowed down to one in each category with the winners announced during the gala dinner at the World Rowing Coaches Conference in Paris, France, on Saturday 8th […]
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GB Rowing’s International Manager nominated for city sports award
James Cracknell and David Tanner are among the nominees in the Square Mile Sport Awards 2008. Voting has now opened giving the executives in the City of London the opportunity to be the first to name their favourite sporting heroes and moments of the […]
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Olympic parades celebrate biggest medal haul since 1908
[img_assist|nid=2181|title=|desc=|link=none|align=none|width=485|height=296] Henley paid tribute to its own local Olympians, and Andy Triggs Hodge and Tom James from Molesey BC, at the weekend. On a perfect Autumn morning supporters lined the river bank, balconies and the bridge as the four crews rowed […]
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GB Rowing’s Coaching line-up
Jurgen Grobler and Paul Thompson, Chief Coaches for GB Rowing’s senior squads, are to continue in their roles, the ARA has announced today. For British rowing this is a considerable coup in the post-Olympic volatile job market as both are […]
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Rebecca Romero returns to her roots
Three Kingston RC members – Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Romero, former GB athlete Vic Fangen and club stalwart Peter King – were honoured during a special boat naming ceremony at Kingston yesterday. Ian South, Director of Coaching, said that the […]
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