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GB Rowing Team Sculling Festival Round Up
The inaugural GB Rowing Team Sculling Festival took place at the weekend at the National Water Sports Centre in Nottingham. For the first time in the sport, athletes competed in an omnium of events which included racing over different distances […]
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Sad news of the death of Jon Beagley
Weybridge Rowing Club is very sad to report that its larger than life Junior Coach Jon Beagley passed away on 10th August at his home in Addlestone, Surrey. He had been diagnosed only about a month earlier with a brain […]
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Historic gold for GB Rowing Team’s Leyden at World Championships
Jessica Leyden made history today in Trakai, Lithuania, when she won Britain’s first gold medal of all-time in the women’s single scull at the World Junior Championships. After what looked like a slow first half, the Hollingworth Lake RC sculler, […]
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Day of mixed fortunes for GB Rowing Team at World Juniors
It was a day of mixed fortunes for the GB Rowing Team at the World Junior Championships in Trakai, Lithuania today. GB’s first two finalists – the women’s pair and the men’s coxed four – came home sixth in their […]
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Leyden in storming form for GB Rowing Team at World Juniors
Jess Leyden was in storming form in today’s quarter-final of the women’ single scull at the World Junior Championships in Trakai which she won in 7:50.35. Italy was her only challenger with Romania in third, the British woman leading from […]
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All three GB Rowing Team crews through today in Trakai
The GB Rowing Team junior men’s eight were in action for the first time today at the World Junior Rowing Championships in Trakai, Lithuania, with some success. They qualified for the semi-finals after taking second place in a heat won […]
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British Rowing Board welcomes two new Directors
British Rowing has successfully appointed two independent non-executive directors (NEDs), Fiona McAnena and Nicola Palios to join its Board. This follows a thorough review of its organisational structure and an open recruitment process which was supported by Sports Recruitment International. Annamarie Phelps, […]
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Steady as we go for GB Rowing Team named for Worlds
The GB Rowing Team is announced today for the first World Rowing Championships of the Rio Olympic cycle to be held in Chungju, Korea later this month (25 August – 1 September). The selectors have continued the strategy of the […]
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GB Rowing Team in thick of action at bumper World Juniors
Australian Youth Olympic medallist Jess Leyden, from Hollingworth Lake RC, was one of two heat winners for the GB Rowing Team on the opening day of the World Junior Championships in Trakai, Lithuania. Ben Maxwell and Alastair Douglass also won […]
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New President for Coupe de la Jeunesse
Gary Harris, Deputy Chairman of British Rowing, has been elected President of the Coupe de la Jeunesse, the premier European rowing event for junior rowers, during a successful weekend for GB. Annamarie Phelps, Chairman of British British Rowing, said she was […]
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