Britain failed to win an Olympic rowing gold for the first Games since 1980 as competition ended here today with the men’s eight taking bronze behind winners New Zealand and Germany.
Stefanos Ntouskos captured Greece’s first-ever Olympic rowing gold medal with a surprise victory in the men’s single sculls as New Zealand claimed two titles on the final day of the Tokyo 2020 regatta here.
World champion class tol as the men’s and women’s Olympic pair finals went respectively to Croatia’s Sinković brothers, Martin and Valent, and New Zealand’s Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler at Tokyo 2020 here today.
Australia ended Britain’s 20-year grip on the Olympic men’s four title here this morning as the first six finals of the Tokyo 2020 regatta produced four Olympic best times and two world bests, with four further world bests being produced on an astonishing day of racing.
Britain will seek to top the Olympic rowing medals table once again after its success at the last three Games with a 45-strong team that includes returning double gold medallist Helen Glover.
The Russia Olympic Committee’s (ROC) men’s quadruple sculls team has been withdrawn from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics following the decision to exclude two rowers over positive tests for the banned substance meldonium.
Wellbeing training and support will be delivered to British Rowing staff throughout the rest of this year through a new partnership with Yoke Consultancy.
This year's World Rowing Championships in China have been cancelled by World Rowing at the request of the organisers in Shanghai.
Italy finished the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Racice in the Czech Republic top of the medals table, with four gold and 11 overall.
Italy claimed three gold medals on an impressive day at the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Račice in the Czech Republic.
The Russian Rowing Federation (FGSR) has excluded Nikita Morgachev and Pavel Sorin from the Russian Olympic Committee's (ROC) squad for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after both tested positive for meldonium.
Britain include returning double gold medallist Helen Glover in a team of 45 rowers to take part in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with Australia naming 38 and the United States 37.
Athletes are set to battle it out for the last remaining places in the rowing events at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at the final qualifier in Italy this week.
Indian rowers Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh have called off a pre-Tokyo 2020 training camp in Portugal due to the requirement of a two-week hard quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
China and Britain topped the medal table at the second regatta of the Rowing World Cup series after notching three titles each in Swiss city Lucerne.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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