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New! How GB women won their first Olympic rowing medal in 2000

January 3, 2021January 7, 20212 Comments

How the GB women's quad won the silver medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, and the lightweight pair won at the World Rowing Championships.

3 woen by sign saying Commonwealth Rowing Regatta, August 5 & 6

New! All sorts of things go wrong in 1999

October 29, 2020Leave a comment

1999 was not a good year for the GB women's rowing team. Find out why.

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Rowing Story now available as podcasts!

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020Leave a comment

Selected Rowing Story biographies are now available as podcasts, but do readers like this format?

Watching racing from upstairs in the mid-course hutat HWR

Missing Henley Women’s Regatta 2020

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020Leave a comment

Looking back at Henley Women's Regatta from 2020.

women's double sculls race - GB yellow empacher in lead

New! 1998 – two golds for the first time

June 11, 2020Leave a comment

The latest instalment in the history of GB women's rowing: 1998 & the first gold in an Olympic boat class (from Gillian Lindsay & Miriam Batten in the 2x).

women's four with medals and arms aloft

1997: The long-awaited first openweight gold medal

May 28, 2020September 10, 2020Leave a comment

The latest instalment in the history of GB women's rowing: 1997 and the arrival of Lottery Funding.

Trisha in an OC1 off Old Harry Rocks, Dorset

New rowing biography! Trisha Corless

May 21, 2020May 5, 2020Leave a comment

Meet Trisha, who rowed for GB from 1992-1996, winning silver in the Lt4- in Strathclyde in 96. She then became a hugely successful GB dragon boater.

4 women wearing medals with coach

New rowing biography! Annamarie Phelps

May 14, 2020May 29, 2020Leave a comment

Meet Annamarie, 1993 World Champion, 1996 Olympian, former Chair of British Rowing, Steward, Chair-elect of CUBC and so much more.

4 women wearing medals with coach

New rowing biography! Alison ‘Wilma’ Brownless

May 7, 2020May 4, 2020Leave a comment

Meet Alison, who won a gold and five silver World Rowing Championships medals from 1991-1996 in the lightweight four and pair.

1954, 1962, 1981 and 1985 medals

GB women’s rowing ‘firsts’

May 1, 2020Leave a comment

Why it's important that we all know our rowing history, and how 'firsts' help to define this.

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