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GB Rowing announces crews for first world cup of 2009 season
GB Rowing today announced the crews who will compete at the season-opening world cup in Banyoles, Spain, from May 29-31. A total of 18 senior crews plus an U23 women’s pair will race on the course which staged the 1992 […]
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U23 rowers to race at Essen
A squad of rowers vying for places on the 2009 U23 team will race this weekend, 16-17 May, 2009, at Essen Regatta in Germany. GB rowing coaches will use the Regatta to test both individuals and boat combinations before making […]
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Successful start to season in Varese
GB’s adaptive rowers had a strong start to their season, winning four golds, three silvers and a bronze as well as the overall team cup trophy at the Varese International Regatta this weekend (2-3 May, 2009). Reigning Paralympic champion Tom Aggar was a […]
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New-look pair and single to spearhead GB at first world cup
GB Rowing gave an insight into the racing season to come when they announced today that Olympic gold medalists Andrew Triggs Hodge and Pete Reed will be nominated to race in a men’s pair at the first world cup of […]
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Winckless announces retirement
Twice former world champion and 2004 Olympic medallist Sarah Winckless has announced her decision to retire from rowing. “I’ve had a wonderful time in the sport. I’m really proud of what I have achieved but I know in my heart […]
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Grainger has Trials “wow factor”
Katherine Grainger took her eighth career title at the GB Rowing trials today. Her victory by seven seconds in the women’s single scull had the day’s “wow factor” as the three-times Olympic medallist has only been back in the sport […]
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Hodge wins semi in “new” event
Andy Triggs Hodge, Olympic champion in the men’s four and more accustomed to featuring in a pair at the annual GB Rowing Senior Trials, won his men’s single scull semi-final at the event in Belgium today with a second-half surge […]
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Grainger and Campbell show strongly at GB Rowing Senior Trials
Katherine Grainger and Alan Campbell, both multi-previous title winners, started strongly at today’s GB Rowing Senior Trials in Hazewinkel, Belgium, in the women’s and men’s single scull events. Three-times Olympic silver medallist Grainger was more than five seconds ahead of […]
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Hodge to race a single at trials
Andy Triggs Hodge, Olympic champion in the men’s four, will contest this weekend’s GB Rowing Senior Trials (Sunday 12 and Monday 13th) in a single scull but says that Alan Campbell – the man who has won the “team berth” […]
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Freeman-Pask and Hosking take lightweight trials wins
Adam Freeman-Pask and Sophie Hosking were winners of the lightweight single scull events at Saturday’s third GB Rowing Winter Assessment Trials. Freeman-Pask came down the 5km time trial course at Boston, Lincolnshire, in a time of 16:27.92 just under […]
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