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Whitlam and Reeve secure Beijing place for women’s pair
GB Rowing’s women’s pair of Olivia Whitlam and Louisa Reeve, today qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing with a storming second place in the final of the Olympic Qualifying Regatta in Poznan, Poland. "They rowed out of their […]
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Two golds and a silver for adaptive rowers
GB Rowing’s adaptive crews, racing at the Pre-Paralympic Regatta in Poznan, Poland, produced some solid ground-work for the Beijing Paralympic Games when they took two golds and a silver from today’s finals. Golds came from reigning world champion Tom Aggar in the single […]
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GB Men’s Quad progresses to Final
GB Rowing’s men’s quadruple scull today qualified for the final at the Olympic Qualification Regatta in Poznan, Poland, to keep their chance of racing in Beijing alive. The quartet of Charles Cousins, Bill Lucas, Sam Townsend and Simon Fieldhouse finished […]
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Wins and second places in Poznan
Two of GB Rowing’s entries for the final Olympic Qualifying Regatta in Poznan, Poland, took second place in their opening heats today. Only the heat winners qualified for Wednesday’s finals, though, so both GB boats now race repechages tomorrow whilst […]
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Great Britain four to race in Poznan
GB Rowing’s men’s four will race at the season’s final world cup in Poznan, Poland, from June 20-22. The Camelot-backed boat has been entered in its Munich line-up of Tom Lucy, Steve Williams, Peter Reed and Andy Triggs Hodge – […]
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Entries for Olympic Qualifying Regatta and Pre-Paralympic Regatta named
Great Britain has entered three boats – the women’s single scull and pair and the men’s quadruple scull – for the Olympic qualifying regatta in Poznan, Poland, from Sunday 15 – Wednesday 18 June, although the men’s quad will be […]
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Two exceptional performances but a challenging day in Lucerne
Whilst GB Rowing celebrated two exceptional performances – gold from Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase in the Siemens-backed lightweight men’s double scull and silver from the men’s open double scull of Matt Wells and Steve Rowbotham – at the season’s […]
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Campbell, Hunter and Purchase lead the way
Alan Campbell, sponsored by Siemens, looked strong in winning his semi-final of the men’s single scull in Lucerne this afternoon despite the presence in the race of Olympic champion Olaf Tufte. His victory was backed by one from the lightweight […]
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Mixed fortunes in Lucerne
GB Rowing produced five heat winners from the first session of racing at the season’s second of three world cups taking place today through to Sunday on Lucerne’s Rotsee lake. Scullers Alan Campbell, in the single, and Matt Wells and […]
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Another twist in men’s four tale
GB Rowing has made a further change in the men’s four for the season’s second world cup in Lucerne (May 30 – 1 June). Andy Hodge is nursing an injury and Colin Smith moves from the stroke seat of the […]
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