Paralympics Day 1
Results from the Paralympic Regatta updated minute by minute. Don’t forget you can follow the ARA’s Paralympic Coverage at http://www.ara-rowing.org/paralympics
So that’s it for today – we’ll be giving you the results again tomorrow morning with the repechages. In the meantime why not check out our Paralympic area where we’ve got the latest news from Beijing, information about adaptive rowing and a competition to win a Panasonic video camcorder. You can also read about Tom Aggar‘s preparations on his BBC blog. |
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Heat 2So in the last race of the day it’s the host nation China who win with the rest of the crews going through to the repechage.
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Heat 1So the GB crew finish in second place and will race again in tomorrow’s repechage after they finish behind Italy. Don’t forget you can hear about Alastair Mckean’s preparations for the Paralympic Games in the latest installment of his video diary.
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Heat 2Great Britain miss out on a straight place in the final, finishing third behind Brazil and Italy. They’ll race again tomorrow in the repechage.
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Looking back at Helene Raynsford’s time in the heat of the AW1x looks like that could also be a world best time! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Heat 1So China win that heat and progress to the final.
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Heat 2Tom Aggar wins his heat and progresses through to the final with all the other boats going into tomorrow’s repechage.
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Heat 1In the first heat it’s Petrenko of Ukraine who wins. Tom Aggar, Britain’s reigning world champion, is up in the next heat. How will he get on?
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AW1x
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Heat 2
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1 | [usa] | 6:01.78 |
2 | [chn] | 6:11.02 |
3 | [ukr] | 6:13.49 |
4 | [bra] | 6:14.76 |
5 | [ita] | 6:26.38 |
6 | [por] | 7:31.90 |
AW1x
Heat 1
So in the first race of the day, Britain’s Helene Raynsford qualifies straight for Thursday’s final winning her heat comfortably.
1 | [gbr] | 5:38.44 |
2 | [blr] | 5:45.51 |
3 | [pol] | 6:05.13 |
4 | [isr] | 6:12.31 |
5 | [kor] | 6:24.04 |
6 | [hkg] | 6:38.46 |