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Athlete in the Spotlight: Angus Groom
GB Rowing Team news caught up recently with Angus Groom in the latest of our series of spotlight features on squad members. We’ll be adding others regularly so look out for future editions. Tweet us via @GBRowingTeam if there is […]
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3 days to go…HoRR History
With three days until this year’s Head of the River race, we’re looking back today at the history of the race. The Head of the River was founded in 1925 by Steve Fairbairn, an influential rower and coach in the […]
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Excitement builds at 500 days to Rio marker
It only seems like yesterday that the Dorney Roar lifted the GB Rowing Team to their most successful ever Olympic Games at London 2012 followed by a memorable Paralympic Games. But the countdown is now well and truly under way […]
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British Rowing Welcomes UK Sport and Sport England Investment Announcements
British Rowing has welcomed UK Sport’s announcement today that its investment approach for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020 will continue to focus on medal success as the key outcome. UK Sport had undertaken a strategic review of […]
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Junior Head Successes
“I looked down the length of the Dorney course and felt terrified.” Hampton School’s J14 rower, Tom McLoughlin, probably spoke for most of the 900-odd competitors in the J14 sculling events, as they raced for the first time on the […]
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Record WeHoRR wins for Grainger
Olympic champion Katherine Grainger described herself as “incredibly proud” after winning the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race for an unprecedented eighth time in Saturday’s landmark 75th race. Her seven-club GB star composite, led the 2,700-strong, 300-boat, field home […]
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British Rowing joins forces with Sports Bodies to thank 1.9 million volunteers
British Rowing CEO Andy Parkinson is one of 39 National Governing Body [NGB] Chief Executives who have joined forces to help influence and inform national and local policy on sport. As well as rowing, the CEO Forum includes other […]
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Tributes made to Michael Hill
Michael Hill, the missing Latymer Upper School, London and Thames rowing coach, was recovered from the Tideway on Monday and has been formally identified. The 48-year-old coach had been missing since an apparent capsize on the River Thames at Putney […]
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House of Lords debate on Women’s Rowing
Last week, for the first time, the House of Lords hosted a debate on women’s rowing. Led by Lord Thomas of Gresford, the House of Lords Grand Committee debate asked Her Majesty’s Government ‘what plans they have to encourage women […]
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Tributes paid to Durham rowing coach
It is with great sadness that British Rowing reports the death of Durham Amateur Rowing Club coach and volunteer Bill Grant at the weekend. Bill, from Sunderland, is believed to have suffered a medical incident while coaching a crew from […]
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