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Council member takes part in BBC’s Mastermind
Chris Anton (front row) Tune in to BBC 2 at 8.00 pm on Friday evening, 3rd December, to support British Rowing’s Chris Anton as he takes part in this week’s ‘Mastermind’. Chris, who still finds time to cox for his club in Birmingham, is a long-serving […]
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GB Rowing Team’s Nainby-Luxmoore wins OCS Sports Person Award
Ed Nainby-Luxmoore, a GB Rowing Team world junior silver medallist and Olympic Youth Games finalist, has won the OCS Young Sports Person Award for 2010. He was presented with his award at a recent celebratory lunch in London. The OCS […]
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Beth Rodford wins Gloucestershire Sports Personality of the Year Award
Congratulations to GB Rower Beth Rodford who was recently awarded Gloucestershire Sports Personality of the Year 2010. Rodford, 27, from Gloucester, was a gold-medal winner at the World Championships in the women’s quadruple scull in New Zealand this month. The […]
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GB RowingTeam visits Olympic Park and venues
Britain’s top rowers, back in the UK after their most successful world championships of all time, today kicked off their Olympic qualifying season with a trip to Olympic Park and the offices of the Organising Committee at Canary Wharf. The […]
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Kelsie Gibson World Silver Medallist inspired by Dame Kelly Holmes and Sarah Winckless
Sunday 21 November 2010 saw 110 talented sports performers from across Kent being put through their paces by a team of world class athletes led by double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes. The Backing Talent Programme gives ‘up and coming’ […]
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Watkins and Grainger win Sunday Times Women’s Team of the Year Award
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins have won the Sunday Times Women’s Team of the Year Award in recognition of their world championships winning performance earlier this month in New Zealand. They received their prize this evening at a ceremony in […]
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Helen Glover takes Silver and a first for Sporting Giants
UK Sport Press Release: Sporting history was made in New Zealand last weekend, where Helen Glover from Cornwall, whose talent for rowing was discovered just three years ago via the UK Sport and English Institute of Sport talent recruitment drive ‘Sporting […]
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FISA 2010 Congress
FISA, the International Rowing Federation, held its annual Congress during the 2010 World Rowing Championships in New Zealand. Delegates representing 44 member national rowing federations were present as well as bid committees and future event organising committees promoting their respective venues and events […]
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GB Rowing Team tops medal table at World Championships
Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger played their role as favourites in the women’s double scull final to perfection on New Zealand’s Lake Karapiro to take gold and help boost the Great Britain Rowing Team to the top of the medal table on the closing afternoon of the 2010 World Championships.
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GB Rowing Team takes world champs gold hat-trick for first time
As the Great Britain Rowing Team’s lightweight men’s four of Chris Bartley, Rob Williams, Paul Mattick and Richard Chambers crossed the line to win gold in New Zealand this afternoon it marked the moment when GB won a hat-trick of […]
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