Meet Alison, who won a gold and five silver World Rowing Championships medals from 1991-1996 in the lightweight four and pair.
GB women’s rowing ‘firsts’
Why it's important that we all know our rowing history, and how 'firsts' help to define this.
New rowing biography! Ali Gill
Meet Ali Gill, OUWBC President in 1987 & author of The Yanks at Oxford, who then rowed for GB at 3 Olympics from 1988-96, coming 5th in the 2x in 1992.
New rowing biography! Sue Hastings
Read the rowing story of 2-times GBR Olympian Sue Clark, later Sue Smith, and now Sue Hastings.
In memoriam: Ann Sayer
An obituary for Ann Sayer, GB rowing international 1960-1964 who died in 2020.
New rowing biography! Sue Appelboom
Meet Sue Appelboom, the GB lightweight single sculler who won the Lt1x at Henley Women's Regatta for 10 years and also held the event record for 25 years.
New! Olympic highs and lows in 1996
Accounts of Olympic years are always rather epic and this is no exception. Maybe make a cup of tea before you start reading this one - it's quite a tale!
Get your Boat Race fix here!
Biographies of some of the Oxford and Cambridge women's rowing blues who went on to row for GB.
New rowing biography! Irene Forey
Meet Irene Helps (later Forey) who represented England at the International Women's Regatta in 1951 & was later a key figure in rowing administration.
New! 1995: the year of the ‘game-changing’ sponsorship
All about the GB women's rowing team in 1995 when the openweight eight's group was sponsored by Larry Tracey's XP plc.