GB Rowing Team
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Soldier and Solicitor Join Olympic Ranks
Robin Bourne-Taylor and Tom Solesbury have today been included in Britain’s Beijing Olympic team list after coming through a final selection round.
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Six returning medallists for U23 World Rowing Championships
GB Rowing has announced the squad to contest the World U23 Championships in Brandenburg, Germany, from 18 – 20 July 2008, which includes six athletes who last year won bronze medals at this level – Tina Stiller, Charles Cousins, Bill Lucas, Mohamed […]
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Inaugural Paralympic team announced
Rowing makes its Paralympic Games debut in Beijing this September and ParalympicsGB
has named the eight-strong squad for the Games. Britain will be represented in all four boat classes at this summer’s Paralympics following British performances at the World Championships in Munich in 2007.
Biggest GB rowing Olympic contingent since 1992
Britain today named 41 rowers in 11 boats to contest the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing – the largest TeamGB contingent since 1992 and reflective of the nation’s recent increased strength in depth in this traditionally strong sport for Britain […]
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Great Britain retains Rowing World Cup title
From FISA: As the third and final stage of the 2008 Rowing World Cup series concluded under clear blue skies and near-perfect rowing conditions in Poznan, Poland, it was Great Britain that took home the overall Rowing World Cup, retaining […]
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Three golds amongst the World Cup headlines
Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter’s third win from three world cups in the lightweight men’s double scull, Elise Laverick’s first world cup gold of all time – with Anna Bebington in the women’s double scull – the medal-winning return to […]
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Gold for GB lightweight women’s quadruple scull
Sophie Hosking, Andrea Dennis, Laura Greenhalgh and Jane Hall are world cup champions after taking gold this evening in the lightweight women’s quadruple scull event, holding off hosts Poland in a fine race, at the season’s final world cup in […]
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Purchase and Hunter win semi-final
Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase came through a tough challenge to win their semi-final of the lightweight men’s double scull today at the season’s final world cup in Poland, underlining their continuing potential to be Olympic medallists in August. The […]
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Four heat wins in Poznan
Four GB Rowing crews won their heats today at the season’s final world cup in Poznan, Poland, booking three berths in Sunday’s final and one semi-final place tomorrow. The GB men’s four, racing for the first time here in the […]
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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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