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GB win more medals at Australian Youth Olympic Festival
GB Rowers have today won a further four golds and a silver at the Australian Youth Olympic festival in Sydney to add to the seven medals won yesterday and bringing the overall GB medal total for the event to seven […]
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Australian Youth Olympic Festival – all the GB action
GB Rowers have won three golds, a silver and three bronzes on the first of two days racing during the Australian Youth Olympic Festival at the Penrith Regatta Course near Sydney which staged the 2000 Olympic Games. The golds came […]
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Seven medals for GB on opening day of Australian Youth Olympic Festival
GB Rowers have won three golds, a silver and three bronzes on the first of two days racing during the Australian Youth Olympic Festival at the Penrith Regatta Course near Sydney which staged the 2000 Olympic Games. The golds came […]
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Rowing begins at Australian Youth Olympic Festival
Twenty young British rowers will take to the water this weekend as the rowing events begin at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) in Sydney, Australia. The young team, which will be competing on the famous Penrith regatta […]
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Youth Olympic Festival 2009
Durham ARC rower picked for Youth Olympics Congratulations to John Preston (pictured above) who has been chosen to take part in the Festival. John is a member of Durham ARC and rows for Reading University. He was seventh in the men’s […]
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Tanner receives New Year’s CBE
[img_assist|nid=2568|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=193|height=248]GB Rowing’s Performance Director, David Tanner, has been made a CBE in the New Year’s Honours list, following a year in which Great Britain achieved the nation’s best Olympic medal results in rowing for 100 years topping rowing’s medal tables […]
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Rowers Honoured
[img_assist|nid=2569|title=Hunter (left) and Purchase were given MBEs|desc=Peter Spurrier|link=none|url=undefined|align=center|width=440|height=268] Great Britain’s six 2008 Olympic rowing gold medallists have been honoured in the New Year’s Honours List. Steve Williams, already a gold medallist in the men’s four in 2004 and made an […]
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Former CEO and Chef de Mission Simon Clegg leaves the BOA
The British Olympic Association (BOA) today announced that its former Chief Executive and Chef de Mission Simon Clegg is leaving the organisation with immediate effect after 20 years service. During his career at the BOA Simon has managed British athletes at […]
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Hodge wins winter assessment trials
Olympic men’s four gold medallist Andy Triggs Hodge won the GB winter assessment 5km trial at Boston, Lincolnshire, today in a time of 18:15.14. Triggs-Hodge was five hundredths of a second ahead of Devon’s Marcus Bateman who missed out on […]
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Olympians visit to Oxford’s Children’s Hospital
Olympians Acer Nethercott, Pete Reed and Andy Triggs Hodge visited a number of wards at the Oxford’s Children’s Hospital on Monday 15th December. They helped to put smiles on the faces of sick youngsters by showing them their medals for the Beijing […]
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