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Two golds on opening day
Great Britain produced a flying start to its Australian Youth Olympic Festival campaign in soaring temperatures (over 40 degrees C) in Sydney today with two golds, four silvers and a bronze. The wins came from Aylebsury’s Stephanie Mottram in the […]
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Trail-blazing rowers down-under
Twenty GB Rowers are set to trail-blaze for the sport in Australia this week, starting on Friday and finishing on Sunday, when they compete as part of Team GB at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival. This will be the first […]
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Rowing joins Olympic Youth Festival
ROWING is to be part of Team GB at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in January (17-21) for the first time since the event began in 2001. 2006 World junior gold medallists Tom Lucy, Lewis Beech and Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell […]
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Bebington Wins in Boston
Staffordshire’s Anna Bebington, a world cup winner in the double scull last year, sprung a surprise at the GB Winter Assessment Trials by taking the women’s title ahead of Olympic medallists, Katherine Grainger and Sarah Winckless, in Boston, Lincolnshire, today. […]
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Campbell wins presitigious sports journalists’ award
GB ROWING’S single sculler, Alan Campbell, has won an “International Newcomer of the Year” award at the 58th annual SJA (Sports Journalists’ Association) Sports Awards in London. Campbell won medals at world cup level in 2006 and reached the final […]
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Chuter honoured by FISA
Penny Chuter, a member of FISA’s competitive rowing commission and former GB coach, has been awarded a Distinguished Service to International Rowing medal by FISA – the sport’s world governing body. Penny was a rowing trendsetter in many ways. Starting […]
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Chambers and Bartley win world places
Chris Bartley, 22, from Farndon in Cheshire, and Richard Chambers, 21, from Coleraine but now living in Oxford, have been selected for Great Britain’s 2006 World Rowing Championships team. The duo, who won the lightweight men’s pair title at the […]
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More medals for GB on last day
GB finished the 2006 World Championships – sponsored by Siemens – with 5 medals – 3 in Olympic classes – after two days of tough and competitive final racing. There were a further 3 medals – 2 of them gold […]
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A golden start
It was a golden start to finals weekend for GB Rowing at the World Championships – sponsored by Siemens – with the day’s finals book-ended by gold medal performances from Zac Purchase and the Camelot sponsored men’s four. In between […]
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Men’s eight round off another good day
There will be plenty of action for home supporters to cheer this weekend, as the GB team qualified a further 4 boats for ‘A’ finals in a thrilling day’s racing at Eton. The sun shone on the Rowing World Championships […]
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