Guildford’s Rachel Morris topped the lists at today’s nine-boat GB Rowing Team para-rowing assessment trials at the national training centre near Reading.
If predicted strong winds abate in time, the nation’s top para-rowers will be going flat out this weekend with Rio in mind.
Four GB Rowing Team medallists from the 2015 World Championships were among the para-rowers to win gold at the British Rowing Senior Championships in Nottingham on Sunday.
The GB Rowing Team’s para-rowers got an early feel for Rio 2016 when they flew out to an Orientation Camp in Brazil at the weekend.
Grace Clough, Dan Brown, Pamela Relph, James Fox and cox Oliver James kept their World Championships crown in France today in a thrilling contest which saw the USA push them all the way to the line.
18 weeks after under-going shoulder surgery Rachel Morris led a GB Rowing Team charge into the World finals in France today as three more boats qualified for Rio quota places.
Persistence has paid off for Yorkshire’s Laurence Whiteley. Today he and newcomer international rower Lauren Rowles made sure that GB will have a para-rowing mixed double scull in Rio by winning their repechage at the World Championships.
Three of the four GB Rowing Team para-rowing crews in action today will feature in Wednesday’s semi-finals after winning their heats yesterday.
After European Championships and multiple world cup successes, the GB Rowing Team has announced its first wave of 2015 World Championships squad selections today.
Grace Clough, Dan Brown, Pamela Relph, James Fox and cox Oliver James knocked the socks off their own world’s best time to win gold at the world cup in Varese today.