Paralympic cycling star Sarah Storey has been made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
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Paralympic cycling star Sarah Storey has been made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
In total, rowing has earned Britain 22 gold medals, 18 silvers and eight bronzes with the legendary Sir Steve Redgrave winning gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games.
All four of the GB Rowing Team open weight women’s crews won medals at the weekend in Munich at the season’s final world cup.
Two golds came for the GB women’s Siemens-sponsored team in the first session of the season’s second Samsung World Rowing Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland– the women’s double scull and women’s pair.
All 12 GB Rowing team crews that started in last weekend’s finals at the World Cup in Belgrade finished their journey on the podium as Britain won four golds, six silver and two bronze medals to add to their international-class gold and silver.
Held at the Olympic rowing venue Eton-Dorney, the weekend’s racing in the finals of the Rowing Team Senior Trials turned out to be one of the most competitive and exciting ever seen at a trials. To start off the day, World silver medallists, Helen Glover and Heather Stanning powered to victory in the women’s pair [...]
London 2012′s official electricity supplier EDF and partners London Youth Rowing (LYR) have launched the Community Rowing Challenge at the London Eye, where potential rowing stars of the future are to compete at Eton Dorney, the Games official rowing venue. The initiative involves youngsters from Hackney, Havering, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, who will make the [...]
World Champion Katherine Grainger and Olympic gold medallists Mark Hunter and Greg Searle are giving the public a rare insight into the rigours of selection for the GB Rowing Team this year, by inviting them to take their own trial on a rowing machine. For the month of February the team is running The Nation [...]
Katherine Grainger’s winning streak of six previous titles in the single scull was brought to an end by Anna Watkins who won at the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials at the Olympic venue.
Anna Watkins celebrated her 28th birthday in style today by taking an unexpected single scull victory over Katherine Grainger on the 2012 Olympic course in the GB Rowing Team Winter Assessment trials.