GB Rowing Team
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Size isn’t everything for lightweight rowers
Team GB’s lightweight men’s four claimed silver in one of the tightest races of the Olympic Regatta to date, as people of all sizes continued to flock to try rowing for themselves at the Get Involved tent. The lightweight four […]
Read MoreLondon 2012 Day 6: Scintillating race gives lightweight four rowing silver
Brothers Richard and Peter Chambers with Rob Williams and Chris Bartley took silver today in the lightweight men’s four in one of the Games’ most exciting rowing races to date.
Read MoreLightweights deliver Silver for Rowing
Three virtuoso performances from Team GB’s lightweight crews had the brilliant supporters at Eton Dorney back on their feet today. The support of the crowd has been amazing and the GB rowers are really responding to the wall of cheering […]
Read MoreRowing Magic – and it’s ladies first at Eton Dorney
The whole country’s dream of Gold came true this morning at Eton Dorney when Rowng’s Helen Glover and Heather Stanning powered their way to a stunning victory. This wasn’t just a magical win, this was a win that has made […]
Read MoreLondon 2012 Day 5: Historic first gold for Glover and Stanning
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning opened Team GB’s gold medal count in the women’s pair at Eton Dorney today and with that victory wrote themselves into the history books as Britain’s first female Olympic gold medallists in the sport.
Read MoreLondon 2012 Day 4: Sam and Tash will race finals on same day
The Team GB men’s double scull and women’s eight both progressed to Thursday’s finals by finishing third and fourth today in their respective semi-final and repechage.
Read MoreLondon 2012 Day 3: Grainger and Watkins set Olympic best
Britain made four starts at Eton-Dorney today and all four boats moved to the next round – three with relative ease, one with a big dose of drama en route.
Read MoreLondon 2012 Day 2: Doubles double up on heats victories
“This is the Olympic Games, it’s what every elite athlete trains so hard for and like all elite athletes we hate losing”, that’s how Mark Hunter summed up the motivation that he and Zac Purchase felt in the final quarter of their lightweight men’s double scull heat today.
Read MoreLondon 2012 Day 1: Glover and Stanning set Olympic best time at Eton-Dorney
Spectators came in their droves to Eton-Dorney from early today to watch the opening day of the Olympic Rowing Regatta.
Read MoreBarry to get “time-out” from Olympics
Team GB rowing coach Bill Barry has been given “time-out” from his duties coaching men’s single sculler Alan Campbell – for a quite special occasion tomorrow morning. The Tokyo silver medallist will be one of 18 Olympic medallists chosen to […]
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