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Racing news – updates from Membership
We would like to draw the attention of our ‘seasoned’ competitors to the following; Veterans to Masters From 1st April 2010, the minimum age of competitors for veteran events is reduced from 31 to 27 and Veterans will be called Masters. […]
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GB Rowing Team’s Ric Egington named as Leander Club captain
Ric Egington, who won world championships gold in the GB Rowing Team’s men’s four last year and 2008 Olympic silver in the men’s eight, has been appointed Leander Club captain. He has been talking about his new role and its […]
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Explore Rowing Update
West Midland-based Stourport Boat Club are the first club to launch a boat funded by Explore Rowing, the British Rowing initiative funded by Sport England, which will encourage greater numbers into the sport. The three-year long project will see Stourport […]
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Deadline Approaches for Prospective Paralympians
Prospective Paralympic rowers are being reminded that they have until Monday 11th January to sign up to see if they have what it takes to represent Great Britain. With less than three years to go to the 2012 Paralympic Games, rowing […]
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Royal Approval
British Rowing are proud to announce that Dudley Fletcher (from Doncaster Rowing Club) has been presented with an MBE by Princess Anne. Dudley, aged 68, was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List at the end of 2009 […]
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Hereford RC makes most of Sport England grant
Following a grant from Sport England for the purchase of two new training boats, Hereford Rowing Club is planning to offer more introduction to rowing courses in 2010. The first will be run in January and it’s a great way to kick […]
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Atlantic Rowing Race 2009
The Atlantic Rowing Race 2009 has finally begun. After delays from bad weather, a fleet of 30 boats started the epic voyage of 2,548 nautical mile race from La Gomera, Tenerife to Antigua earlier today. Britannia III, the record attempting […]
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Sad News: Carl Smith
British Rowing is sad to report the tragic death of four-time GB world champion Carl Smith, who was travelling home from a training session at Nottingham Rowing Club on New Year’s Day, when his car left the road and hit […]
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Cold venue for some potentially hot GB Rowing Team contests
Boston in Lincolnshire looks set to be the somewhat frigid venue for a number of hotly-contested races this Saturday (19 December) between returning Olympians and current or former world medallists when the GB Rowing Team Winter Assessment starts there at […]
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The Xchanging Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race Trials
Both club presidents got to row on their desired Stations in today’s Trial VIII’s races – despite only one of them winning their respective toss. American Deaglan McEachern lost the toss in the Cambridge Race but his boat Spaghetti […]
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