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Tribute to Andy Holmes MBE
It is with great sadness that the GB Rowing Team has learned of the recent death of multi-Olympic medallist Andy Holmes MBE. Andy won gold as part of the GB team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and followed […]
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Atlantic Allum Cup Race 2011
In January 2011 Woodvale Challenge (organisers of ocean rowing races) are running three record campaigns for the mid-Atlantic route (La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Barbados – 2600 miles away) and are looking for crew members to take on […]
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Sad news: Andy Holmes, Olympic gold medallist, has died
It is with great sorrow that British Rowing reports the tragic and untimely death of Andy Holmes, 51 years old, on Sunday 24th October. Andy Holmes rowed at the Olympics in 1984 and 1988, winning a gold medal on each occasion. In Los […]
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Weil’s Disease – Leptospirosis
British Rowing has recently been advised of a possible serious case of Weil’s Disease, or Leptospirosis, contracted by a rower in the Thames region. The water we row on is not always as clean as we would choose and while the […]
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The University Boat Club Squads for the 2011 Xchanging Boat Race Announced
The University Boat Club squads for the 2011 Xchanging Boat Race have been announced and they include one of the biggest concentrations of home grown oarsmen and undergraduates for many years. Nearly three out of four squad members (72%) are […]
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Marathon Row for Royal Chester Juniors
The Junior squad aged between 13-16 from Royal Chester Rowing Club rowed 26 miles on the river Dee from Chester to Farndon and back again in quad sculls recently to raise funds for the Hospice of the Good Shepherd and […]
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New Community Whitlingham Boathouses
Building has commenced on the first stage of the new ’state of the art’ Whitlingham Boathouses which will cost over £1,000,000 to build. The new community boathouses represent a major step forward for recreational and competitive rowing and canoeing in […]
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2010 World Rowing Coastal Championships, Istanbul
On 22-24 October 2010 the fourth World Rowing Coastal Championships will take place in Istanbul. More than 500 athletes from several countries will be hosted in the European Capital of Culture for the year 2010 on the beach between the […]
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Gold Medal Winning Crews to Receive a Maori Treasure
Every member of each gold medal winning crew at the 2010 World Rowing Championships will receive a unique Maori greenstone taonga (treasure) at the official medal ceremony. The specially carved greenstone pounamu, commissioned by local iwi Ngati Koroki Kahukura, were […]
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Six Thousand Metres a Day for 12 Years
72 year old Keith Atkinson, President of Nottingham Rowing Club, has just completed rowing 30 million metres on the rowing machine. It has taken him 12 years – the equivalent of rowing over 6 thousand metres every day! Here is […]
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