Rowing

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14/10/2014
Could you be the next big thing in rowing?
A talent identification session being held at the University of Bath later this month could help find the next generation of Olympic rowers.
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30/07/2014
Silver for Sam at World Under-23 Champs
University of Bath student Sam Courty helped the British women’s eight to the silver medal at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships in Italy.
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21/07/2014
Courty selected for World Under-23s
University of Bath student Sam Courty has been named in the Great Britain team to compete at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships later this month.
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30/04/2014
Sam set for Seattle
University of Bath student Sam Courty has been selected to row in a senior British crew for the first time at the Windermere Cup in Seattle this weekend.
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20/10/2013
Have you got what it takes to be an international rower?
A talent identification session at the University of Bath could help identify future generations of British Olympic rowers.
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18/04/2013
Late crew change for Frazier
University of Bath student Frazier Christie faces another big step at the weekend en route to his goal of rowing at this year’s World Under-23 Championships.
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14/02/2013
Bath students are third under-23 pair at rowingtrials
The University of Bath pairing of Frazier Christie and Jack Cadman produced a strong performance to finish as the third fastest under-23 pair at the GB Rowing Team Second Winter Assessment trials in Lincolnshire.
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06/02/2013
Christie aiming to follow in footsteps of Stanning & Glover
Training under a banner of Olympic gold medallists Heather Stanning and Helen Glover has proved a huge inspiration for University of Bath student Frazier Christie, who is aiming to take the next step up in his own rowing career this weekend.
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29/12/2012
Grainger and Tanner lead Honours list for rowing
Rowing, after its consistency of success since Beijing and its track record of winning at least one gold for Britain at every Olympic Games since 1984, has featured strongly on the New Year Honours list announced today (Saturday 29 December).
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05/08/2012
Best Olympic regatta of all time for GB
Britain closed out the 2012 Olympic regatta with two golds and a silver on the final day of racing to bring their overall tally to four golds, two silvers and three bronzes - a best ever.
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04/08/2012
Gold for Grainger and Watkins and two GB Bronzes
It was Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins' day after all. Three previous silvers for Grainger and a bronze for Watkins were turned into gold on Eton-Dorney lake in the space of six and a half epic minutes.
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02/08/2012
Historic First Gold for Rowers
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning opened Team GB's gold medal count in the women's pair at Eton-Dorney today and with that victory wrote themselves into the history books as Britain's first female Olympic gold medallists in the sport.
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31/07/2012
Grainger and Watkins win heat in Olympic Best Time
Britain made four starts at Eton-Dorney today and all four boats moved to the next round - three with relative ease, one with a big dose of drama en route.
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19/06/2012
Somerset rowers strike gold at last world cup before London
Somerset's Helen Glover and Paul Mattick won gold for the GB rowing Team at the final world cup before London 2012.
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16/06/2012
Seven GB Rowing Crews through to Sunday's finals
The GB Rowing Team had a “pretty solid” morning of racing on the opening day of the season’s final Samsung World Rowing Cup in Munich, according to Performance Director David Tanner.
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07/06/2012
2012 Olympic Team Announced
Reigning double scull World Champions Anna Watkins, of Staffordshire, and Scotland's Katherine Grainger spearhead a list of 48 rowers
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29/05/2012
Medals for Bristol, Bath and Somerset rowers in Lucerne
GB rowers from Bristol, Bath and Somerset were back on the medal rostrum as the GB Rowing Team won five medals including three golds on finals day at the Lucerne World Cup - the last race before the Olympic crew announcement on June 6.
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22/05/2012
Mattick and Bateman Switch Boats for Lucerne World Cup
2010 World Champion Paul Mattick from Frome will enjoy a return to the lightweight men’s four as a replacement for the injured Peter Chambers at the season’s second world cup in Lucerne, Switzerland, from May 25-27.
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19/05/2012
Somerset rowers named in squad for Lucerne world cup
GB rowers from Somerset are preparing for the second world cup of the 2012 season which will feature extra competition with crews from Australia, New Zealand and Canada taking part.
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08/05/2012
Somerset rower wins gold at World Cup
Somerset rowers made the medal podium for the GB Rowing Team in the first World Cup of 2012.
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02/05/2012
GB Rowing Team set to open the season’s racing account
Winter training is over and the GB Rowing Team, including Somerset's Cameron Nichol and Paul Mattick, travel to Belgrade this week to open its racing account for the Olympic season.
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17/04/2012
South West Rowers Impress at U23 Trials
South West rowers made their mark at the GB Rowing Team's U23 trials which heralded the start of the team’s 'Row to Rio 2016' campaign.
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05/04/2012
Somerset Rowers Selected for GB World Cup Squad
Somerset's Helen Glover has been selected to race for the GB Rowing Team at the opening world cup of the season in Belgrade from May 4-6, putting her in a strong position in the national squad early in the Olympic season.
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13/03/2012
Somerset Rower Wins 2012 GB Trial
Helen Glover and her rowing partner Heather Stanning lived up to their billing as favourites at the GB rowing trials in a dress rehearsal for London 2012 on the Olympic course.
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31/01/2012
Pinsent challenges the public to experience GB trials
Sir Matthew Pinsent, four-times Olympic rowing gold medallist, knows exactly how tough it is to win selection for big sporting teams and is now helping the public to get a first-hand taste of the action this February - and raise money for charity at the same time.
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11/01/2012
The GB Rowing Team invites you on board
The GB Rowing Team is giving people from Somerset a rare insight into the rigours of selection for 2012 by inviting them to take their own trial on a rowing machine.
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20/12/2011
Boston Trials Round-Up
It was frozen, it rained and then the wind picked up its pace but the GB Rowing Team Winter Assessment went ahead
in Boston
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13/12/2011
Back to Basics in Boston (Lincs)
The GB Rowing Teams' Winter Assessment takes place on a 5km course at Boston in Lincs next weekend (17 December) pitching the nation's leading Olympic contenders - including a host of rowers from Somerset - against each other and the clock.
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06/09/2011
Somerset Rowers Part of Record Medal Haul
Somerset rowers had a rollercoaster of emotions winning medals at the World Rowing Championships in Slovenia during a record 14-medal haul for the GB Rowing Team.
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04/09/2011
Two golds, a silver and a bronze for GB Rowing Team
"Masterful and mature" was how GB Rowing Team Performance Director David Tanner described Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger's World Championships victory in the women's double scull on Slovenia's Lake Bled today.
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03/09/2011
Aggar defends title
Tom Aggar extended his unbeaten run to take the World title for a fourth time in the arms-only single scull and the women's eight celebrated crew member Katie Solesbury's birthday to raise their game and take a bronze.
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02/09/2011
Gold and two silvers for GB at World Championships
The GB Rowing Team opened its medal tally with a gold and two silvers on the first of four World Championship medal days on Slovenia's Lake Bled.
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01/09/2011
GB Rowing Team's first London Olympic boat places booked
The GB Rowing Team won all three of its semis on a day when the women's pair and men's eight qualified for tomorrow's finals guaranteeing these boat slots for the nation at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
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20/07/2011
Somerset Rowers Named In World Championship Team
The GB Rowing Team has named six rowers from Somerset in its squad for the World Championships - which double as qualifying for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
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12/07/2011
Somerset Rowers Strike Gold in Lucerne
Somerset rowers were the talk of the rowing world at the last big competition before the World Championships - which acts as qualifying for London 2012.
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07/07/2011
GB Rowing Team Crew from Somerset Head to World Cup Finals
Members of the GB Rowing Team from Somerset head to the world cup finals in Lucerne this weekend fuelled with desire after a stunning victory and a controversial defeat at the Henley Royal Regatta.
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28/06/2011
GB Rowers from Somerset in International Action
Olympic medallist rowers from across Somerset will be racing for Great Britain in front of home crowds at the Henley Royal Regatta this week in preparation for the final world cup in Lucerne.
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12/05/2011
Local rowers represent GB in first World Cup
Five local rowers from Somerset have been selected to represent GB at the first World Cup of the season.
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12/04/2011
Local Rowers Reach final GB Rowing Team Senior Trials
Five Somerset based rowers, led by reigning world champion Paul Mattick, have reached the final GB Rowing Team Senior Trials to be held this weekend on the chosen 2012 Olympic Course at Dorney Lake near Eton.
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09/02/2011
Local Rowers Race for Place in GB Senior Team
Three Somerset rowers will compete in the final GB Rowing Team winter assessment held this weekend on the chosen 2012 Olympic Course at Dorney Lake near Eton.
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29/10/2010
Local rowers to attend World Championships
A number of Somerset rowers will compete for the GB Rowing Team at the Rowing World Championships which will be held at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand from 31st October to 7th November 2010.
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13/07/2010
GB Rowing Team has had its best world cup season ever
The GB Rowing Team has had its best world cup season ever, culminating in four golds, four silvers and three bronzes on Lucerne's Rotsee in the biggest world cup of all time.
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08/04/2010
Somerset rowers invited to GB Trials
The GB Rowing Team have invited a number of Somerset rowers to attend The GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in Hazewinkel, Belgium, on 9-12 April
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30/08/2009
Two golds for GB at World Rowing Championships
Paralympic champion Tom Aggar after dominating the arms-only single sculls to win his second world title in Poland.
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06/07/2009
New Zealand complete stunning Henley debut
New Zealand proved that they are currently one of the most powerful rowing nations in the world with four wins at Henley Royal Regatta in their debut year as a full national team – despite the presence of a strong GB national squad.
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05/07/2009
GB Pair beaten but Campbell through for final battle
Andrew Triggs Hodge and Peter Reed, two of GB’s 2008 Olympic men’s four gold medallists, suffered a home-water defeat to New Zealanders Eric Murray and Hamish Bond in the semi-finals of the Silver Goblets for men’s pairs at Henley Royal Regatta today by over two lengths.
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04/07/2009
Mouth-watering semi-finals day in Store at Henley
New Zealand and Great Britain will continue their recent rowing rivalry during Henley Royal Regatta’s semi-finals session tomorrow, starting at 10am.
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03/07/2009
Olympians through with Campbell in record-breaking form
British and other Olympians racing at Henley Royal Regatta today all moved smoothly through their opening races during which single sculler Alan Campbell broke the record to the Barrier (2089 feet) in his heat of the Diamond Challenge Sculls event.
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03/07/2009
No Jacket Required on a day of 80 races
A crowd-appealing Princess Elizabeth contest for school eights was amongst the 80 races contested at Henley Royal Regatta today on a day when soaring temperatures prompted event organisers to allow gentlemen to remove their jackets in the Stewards’ Enclosure for the first time since 1976.
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01/07/2009
Top flight entry ready for racing at Henley
Andrew Triggs Hodge and Peter Reed, Olympic champions in the men’s four, will contest the Silver Goblets (men’s pair) event at Henley Royal Regatta and are two of seven Beijing gold medallists at this year’s Regatta which runs from tomorrow (30 June) until Sunday (5 July).
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17/06/2009
Strong entry expected for 160th Henley Royal Regatta
Entries close today (Tuesday 16 June) for the 2009 Henley Royal Regatta and spectators at the world-famous event look set to be treated to a feast of top class action.
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11/06/2009
Top-flight entry anticipated for 160th Henley Royal Regatta
There are just three weeks until the 160th annual Henley Royal Regatta gets under way (Wednesday 1 July to Sunday 5 July). Organisers are anticipating a top-flight entry from around the globe for an event that attracted over 1,600 rowers a year ago.
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02/06/2009
Freeman-Pask strike bronze
University of Bath graduate Adam Freeman-Pask set Britain on course for a terrific weekend at the opening rowing World Cup of the year.
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29/05/2009
Freeman-Pask prepares for season-opening World Cup
University of Bath graduate Adam Freeman-Pask represents Great Britain at the first rowing World Cup of the year, which gets underway in Banyoles, Spain tomorrow (Friday).
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11/03/2009
Talented young rowers join Olympic medallists to tackle Tide
Three rowers who train at the University of Bath teamed up with Olympic medallists Katherine Grainger and Cath Bishop to compete in the Women’s Eights Head of the River Race on the Thames on Saturday (7th March).
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05/09/2008
Rowing favourite Aggar ready to do the job
Rowing makes its debut as a Paralympic sport in Beijing and Britain’s Tom Aggar is “ready to go out there and do the job”.
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07/07/2008
A round up of the Henley Royal Regatta
Finals day at Henley Royal Regatta, an event which started on Wednesday and has featured more than 1600 rowers from 18 nations in 301 crews, produced some fine races despite early blustery conditions and sometimes torrential rain.
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03/07/2008
Crews from around the world descend on Henley
More than 1,600 rowers from 18 nations will this year race in 301 crews at Henley Royal Regatta which starts tomorrow (Wednesday 2 July) and runs through to Sunday
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13/05/2008
Five Golds, Three Silvers and the World Cup
GB Rowing men's four buried some significant ghosts today on the Munich regatta course which witnessed them lose their world title eight months ago on a day when GB won five golds and three silvers - all bar one silver in Olympic classes - as well as the world cup points trophy.
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12/05/2008
Durham are victorious in 12th University Boat Race
Honours belonged to Durham University in the 12th University Boat Race, with their rowers winning all four events in an afternoon of hard-fought races.
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19/07/2007
Success for local rowers this weekend in Lucerne
Somerset and Wiltshire's rowers all performed well for Great Britain at this weekend's third and final world cup in Lucerne
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19/07/2007
Local Rower selected for GB World U23 team
A young rower from Somerset has been selected to represent Great Britain at the World U23 Regatta
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13/07/2007
World cup action in Lucerne for local rowers
Somerset and Wiltshire's rowers are back in action at this weekend's third and final world cup in Lucerne
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03/07/2007
GB Crew selections for second 2007 World Cup
GB crews for the second World Cup of 2007
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03/07/2007
World Cup Action in Amsterdam for Local Rowers
Somerset and Wiltshire's rowers are back in world cup action this weekend
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05/06/2007
Wilts and Somerset rowers take gold, silver and bronze
Somerset's Stephen Rowbotham and Paul Mattick and Georgina Menheneott of Wiltshire are all celebrating today
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30/05/2007
Local rowers in world cup action this weekend
Three Somerset and Wiltshire rowers will be in action at this weekend's season-opening rowing world cup
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25/08/2006
Great start for GB Rowers
Britain's disabled rowers made a great start in the heats on the first day of adaptive races at the World Rowing Championships at Dorney Lake, Eton.
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21/07/2006
2 University of Bath students selected for World U23 Champs
Adam Freeman-Pask and Dave Lyons of the University of Bath have both been selected to race in the World U23 Championships which begin today in Hazewinkel, Belgium, and continue until Sunday 23rd.
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08/05/2006
Durham upset the form book to retain grip on Boat Race title
Durham's senior men's eight upset the form book to claim honours in the tenth anniversary Northumbrian Water University Boat Race today (Sunday 7 May).
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