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Michael Lapage: A miraculous life
By Michael Lapage’s own estimation, there was something miraculous about him winning a silver medal at the 1948 London Olympics. Because it was a miracle he was still alive. Having learned to row on the waters of the Avon, where […]
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World Rowing Coastal Championships underway
The 2011 World Rowing Coastal Championships are underway, with over 500 competitors from 19 nations converging on the Italian coast for a weekend of frantic rowing in the Adriatic. Six coastal titles are being contested, with Italy, France, and Spain […]
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West Yorkshire rower wins Young Sports Person Award
Jess Leyden of Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club, has received a £1,500 OCS Young Sports Person Award for her achievements in rowing. The 16 year old claimed the prize for the North East region, after a successful five years of rowing […]
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Silver for GB Rowing Team at European Championships
The lightweight women’s double of Kathryn Twyman and Andrea Dennis won an impressive silver medal for the GB Rowing Team at the European Championships today behind the Greek World Champions. It was the second time in a fortnight that Twyman […]
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GB Rowing Team crews reach finals of European Championships
The GB Rowing Team saw three out of four boats reach the finals of the European Championships in Bulgaria with first and second places in the repechages today. The lightweight women’s double won their race in emphatic fashion while the […]
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GB crews race World medallists at European Champs
The GB Rowing Team had a testing but “pleasing start” to the European Rowing Championships in Bulgaria today with all five crews putting in promising performances against stiff opposition according to their team manager. Pete Sheppard, was impressed […]
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GB Rowing Team squad for European Championships
Rowers from the GB Rowing Team with their eye on the 2016 Olympics or a late challenge for the 2012 team head to Plovdiv in Bulgaria this weekend to contest the European Rowing Championships. A large number of nations send […]
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Double gold finale for GB Rowing Team at World Championships
Olympic Champions Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter successfully defended their lightweight men’s double scull World Championships title today in Bled on a day when the men’s four of Alex Gregory, Ric Egington,Tom James and Matt Langridge also won gold.
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Two golds, a silver and a bronze for GB Rowing Team at Worlds in Bled
“Masterful and mature” was how GB Rowing Team Performance Director David Tanner described Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger’s World Championships victory in the women’s double scull on Slovenia’s Lake Bled today. Britain also won gold in the lightweight women’s quadruple […]
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Aggar defends title. GB women’s eight and light four take bronzes
Tom Aggar extended his unbeaten run to take the World title for a fourth time in the arms-only single scull and the women’s eight celebrated crew member Katie Solesbury’s birthday to raise their game and take a bronze. But the […]
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