GB Rowing Team
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Leyden nominated for Award
Jess Leyden from Hollingworth Lake, is one of just three athletes in the UK to have been shortlisted for SportsAid’s prestigious “One-to-Watch Award” which will be presented by the charity’s Patron, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at its […]
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Naomi Riches announces her retirement
Reigning Paralympic and six-times World Champion Naomi Riches MBE has today announced her retirement from rowing. The 30 year-old is going out on a high having won her sixth World title at the 2013 Championships in Chungju, Republic of Korea. […]
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GB Rower wins Inaugural Parmigiani Award
James Cook, who featured in GB Rowing Team squads at the 2010 World Juniors as well as the 2012 and 2013 World U23 Championships and who is today rowing at the British Championships, has won the first Parmigiani Spirit Award. […]
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Olympian Jess Eddie honoured by Durham ARC
Durham rowing Olympian, Jess Eddie, visited Durham Amateur Rowing Club (DARC) yesterday to launch the Jessica Eddie, a lightweight Eight named in her honour. Jess, who attended St.Leonard’s School in Durham and learned to row on the River Wear at […]
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Success for GB at 2013 University Champs
The 11 Universities from Great Britain returned from the 8th European Universities Rowing Championships in Poznan with 4 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze. The composite team drawn from 11 different Universities across the country finished second in the medals […]
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Andy Triggs Hodge joins UKAD Athlete Committee
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) has announced five new members to its Athlete Committee, including the GB Rowing Team’s Andy Triggs Hodge. The UKAD Athlete Committee provides guidance on anti-doping policy and programmes. It assists in reviewing and recommending effective ways to […]
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Historic gold for GB Rowing Team men’s eight at Worlds
The British men’s eight won a World Championships gold for the first time in history today on Korea’s Lake Tangeum. In a landmark performance they led the race for all bar the first 250m, beating the reigning World and Olympic […]
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Gold for Glover-Swann, GB Rowing Team men’s quad make history
Polly Swann and Helen Glover became World Champions in the women’s pair on Lake Tangeum this afternoon in Korea and the GB men’s quad of Graeme Thomas, Sam Townsend, Charles Cousins and Peter Lambert made history by taking Britain’s first […]
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Brace of bronzes for GB Rowing Team in Korea
Lightweight single sculler Ruth Walczak and the lightweight men’s pair of Sam Scrimgeour and Mark Aldred both bagged bronzes in the international classes at the World Rowing Championships today to add to the gold won by the para-rowing mixed coxed […]
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Good day at the office for GB Rowing Team in Korea
Headlined by the women’s pair of Olympic Champion Helen Glover and Polly Swann the GB Rowing Team had a ‘pretty good day in the office’ on Korea’s Lake Tangeum today. Six crews qualified for the finals in Chungju from eight […]
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