January 28, 2012
Mark Hunter has been named rowing's Olympic Athlete of the Year for 2011 by the British Olympic Association.
He received his award at Twickenham Stadium tonight during the GB Rowing Team's annual team awards dinner.
Hunter, whose Beijing gold with Zac Purchase in the lightweight men's double scull was Britain...
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.
The Nation on Trial initiative, sponsored by the GB Rowing Team’s...
GB Performance Director David Tanner has spoken this week with confidence of the GB Rowing Team's ability to "do the nation proud" on home waters in July and August this year.
The man who has overseen the preparations for every squad going into the Games since 1996 was in buoyant mood at the six months to London 2012...
January 23, 2012
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 on Trial initiative,...
January 14, 2012
Sports nutrition brand SiS has signed a new five-year deal to continue as the Official Supplier of Sports Drinks and Sports Nutrition of the GB Rowing Team. The partnership renews SiS’s commitment to the high-performance arm of British Rowing, a relationship which was launched in 2009 since when the Team has won 15 World Championship Gold...
December 30, 2011
Katherine Grainger (three-times Olympic silver medallist):
"I think that I've woken up on a few New Year's Days in past Olympic years so I
know exactly what it means and what we have to achieve.I'll wake up, like everyone else, knowing how great the opportunity
is for all of us. But I...
December 17, 2011
It was frozen, it rained and then the wind picked up its pace
but the GB Rowing Team Winter Assessment went ahead
in Boston, Lincolnshire, today pitting Britain's top rowers against
the elements and the clock on a 5km course.
"Yes it's tough but it's also a good thing to do and it's feels like
the start of...
December 14, 2011
The event described recently by Alan Campbell - Britain's top single sculler - as the one "where it all begins for the Olympics" will go ahead this Saturday in Boston, Lincolnshire. Boston perennially hosts the second GB Rowing Team Winter Assessment of the season - an endurance trial on a 5km stretch of water. This is third time lucky...
December 7, 2011
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins have been shortlisted for the Sports Journalists' Association Team of the Year Award with the ceremony taking place in London's Covent Garden today.
The duo successfully defended their World Championships double scull title in Bled, Slovenia, this year despite a season disrupted by injury to...