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Anthony Brown, a Tyneside boat builder, develops the first crude riggers on rowing boats for racing.

Christine Scheiblich

Christine Scheiblich-Hahn (born December 31, 1954 in Wilsdruff, Sachsen) is a German rower and Olympic champion.

Ioana Olteanu

Ioana Olteanu (born 25 February 1966 in Drăcșenei, Teleorman) is a Romanian rower who has won three Olympic medals in the eights competition.

Luis María Lasúrtegui

Luis Mari Lasurtegui Berridi (born March 28, 1956 in Pasaia, Guipúzcoa ) is a Spanish competition rower and Olympic champion.

National Sea Festival

The stages and places were the Festival takes place have changed through the decades: in 1972 the venue was the Club Naútico, an exclusive tennis and rowing club from where one of the top stars of the Argentinian tennis came out to fame: Guillermo Vilas.

Rideau Canoe Club

The club also offers courses in more conventional recreational canoes, kayaks and stand up paddle boards, and is the venue for the Head of the Rideau rowing regatta, held annually in late September by the Ottawa Rowing Club.

University of East Anglia Boat Club

The University of East Anglia Boat Club (UEABC) is the rowing club of the University of East Anglia in the UK.

Veronica Cochelea

Veronica Cochelea-Cogeanu (born 15 November 1965 in Voinești, Iași) is a Romanian rower who has won four Olympic medals.

William Theodore Heard

He was educated at Fettes College of which his father (Rev William Augustus Heard) had been Headmaster, and at Balliol College, Oxford where he rowed.


see also

Australian Blind Sports Federation

Blind and vision impaired athletes and teams participate in national championships in Athletics, Cricket, Equestrian, Goalball, Golf, Judo, Karate, Lawn Bowls, Powerlifting, Rowing, Sailing, Swimming, Tandem cycling, Tenpin Bowling, Water Skiing, Wrestling, and Winter Sports.

Commonwealth Rowing Championships

The Commonwealth Rowing Championships are held in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games since rowing is no longer included in the Commonwealth Games programme (but it is hoped that rowing may return to the Games in 2018).

Cynthia Ryder

Cynthia L. "Cindy" Ryder (born August 12, 1966) is an American Olympic athlete who won the gold medal in women's single sculls rowing event at the 1991 Pan American Games and participated in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Gerry Simpson

Simpson trained as a member of the British Olympic rowing squad for the 1984 summer games, but failed to make the coxless four.

Gold Fever

Gold Fever was the name of a BBC documentary, shown in August 2000, which followed Steve Redgrave and his British rowing coxless four teammates Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster and James Cracknell in the years leading up to the Sydney Olympics, where Redgrave was looking to claim his fifth consecutive gold medal.

Grandfather Stories

The tales are nuggets of social history: among them, New Year customs in Rochester's elite "ruffleshirt" Third Ward, early professional baseball in Rochester, the corrupt matches that killed off professional rowing, and the invention of the detachable shirt collar in Troy, New York.

Jantzen

The founders were members of the Portland Rowing Club, and in 1913, the company was asked to provide a rowing suit for use in the chilly mornings on the Willamette River.

Maidenhead Regatta

Maidenhead Regatta is a rowing regatta in England which takes place in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

Marin Rowing Association

The Marin Rowing Association, located in Greenbrae, California, is a rowing association and non-profit organization founded in 1968 by Coach R.C. "Bob" Cumming.

Rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four, inriggers

The men's coxed fours with inriggers, also referred to as the coxed four with jugriggers, was a rowing event held as part of the Rowing at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme.

Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal featured races in 14 events, all held at the rowing basin on Île Notre-Dame.

Sally Robbins

Originally from Perth, Western Australia, she attended the rowing program at the Western Australian Institute of Sport, and later represented Australia at the women's four at the 2000 Olympics and the women's eight at the 2004 Olympics.

Tiffin School Boat Club

The Tiffin School Boat Club (also known as TSBC) is an amateur rowing club, based in London, run by Tiffin School.