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Practical planning guide for sports clubs
Sport England, in partnership with the Department of Communities and Local Government, has published a new guide to planning applications aimed at sports clubs who want to improve their facilities. Sport England knows that poor quality facilities are a significant barrier […]
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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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Bluefriars honour their Olympic rowers
Monkton Bluefriars Trust organised a unique event on Saturday 25th April to congratulate double Olympic champion Steve Williams OBE (Gold in men’s heavyweight coxless four) and Alex Partridge (Silver in men’s heavyweight eight) upon their success at Beijing.
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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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Blind sculler completes first stage of charity triathlon
Saturday 18th April was the first leg of a triathalon being undertaken by Dave Carter, head of sixth form at St John the Baptist School and Callum Russell, a student of the school and a blind rower at Weybridge RC. Their intention is […]
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Grainger has Trials “wow factor”
[img_assist|nid=2944|title=Matt Wells challenged Alan Campbell all the way at the Trials|desc=Photo: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=322|height=263]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" […]
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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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27 “world class” rowers make GB Senior trials grade
[img_assist|nid=2941|title=Anna Bebington (left) is a world class start graduate who took Olympic bronze in Beijing|desc=Photo: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=313|height=162]27 rowers, who have been identified or nurtured by the ARA’s World Class Start Scheme, sponsored by Siemens and supported by the National Lottery, […]
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Grainger and Campbell show strongly at GB Rowing Senior Trials
[img_assist|nid=2939|title=Katherine Grainger showed strongly in today’s time trial racing|desc=Photo: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=322|height=272]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 […]
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