Water’s Gleaming Gold
Told never to row again, and blamed by the rowing correspondents as too young and too unfit, Jumbo gained his revenge at Henley in front...
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Mixed Eights
A novel approach at the Pan American Games sees the introduction of mixed-gender eights. “It’s so much fun to get the guys and girls together,”...
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All change please
Serbian politics prompts a change of plan for the 2025 European Rowing Championships.
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Olympic Rowing Changes Forever
Beach Sprints to be included in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games programme.
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Day Eight, Belgrade: The Sun Sets on Lake Sava
Five and a half final hours of furious racing closed the curtains on the 2023 world championships.
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Day Seven, Belgrade: Anthem Time
There is something slightly sad in the knowledge that we have now seen what is likely to be the last seriously contested lightweight doubles world...
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Day Six, Belgrade: Finally, Some Medals
More wind, more Games qualification, but Friday finally saw the first medals awarded, mostly to non-Games events but also to the newly-important PR3 mixed doubles....
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Day Five, Belgrade: Semi-Final Surprises on Bumpy Waves
Day five of the 2023 World Rowing Championships and time to get out the lifebelts, as a lively cross-headwind brought back echoes of Tokyo and...
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Day Four, Belgrade: Circulation and Weather Woes on Wednesday
Day four of the 2023 championships and the warm-up and spinning zones, always dangerous places, took a few new victims.
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Day Three, Belgrade: First Final Filled
The threatening weather having drifted away overnight, the last day of heats boasted the flattest water so far on Lake Sava, and as a result...
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How to get to the Games
The system, which has been in place since 1996 for the Olympics and for para-rowers since the 2008 inaugural Paralympic rowing regatta, hasn’t changed much...
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Day Two, Belgrade: Claiming Paris Spots Under Cloudy Skies
The Monday schedule had been reorganised hastily on Sunday night, shifting preliminary races for five straight-final non-Olympic categories into Tuesday and cramming the rest into...
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