Rowing New Zealand - Latest News [Page 3]
Double Olympic rowing champions bow out
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 10:42 am | Rowing New Zealand
Double Olympic gold medallists and three time world rowing champions Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell have announced their retirement from the sport. More >>
Rowing NZ announces three senior appointments
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 4:34 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Richard Tonks has renewed his contract as Head Coach for the next Olympic cycle. Pending completion of searches for permanent appointees, Luke van Velthooven has been appointed Interim Chief Executive Officer, and Judith Hamilton as Interim High ... More >>
Gallagher Great Race Live Webcast - 7 Sept 2pm
Friday, 5 September 2008, 4:29 pm | Rowing New Zealand
New Zealand’s equivalent of the Boat Race – the Gallagher Great Race – takes place on Sunday 7th September 2pm (NZ time). A live web cast will bring the race to rowing enthusiasts all over the world. More >>
Cambridge honours its rowing heroes
Monday, 25 August 2008, 3:31 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Cambridge – home to most of the New Zealand rowing squad – will honour its world beating rowers with a special parade through the streets of the town this Friday. More >>
Gold, Silver and Bronze for juniors at Champs
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 4:36 pm | Rowing New Zealand
New Zealand's junior athletes have excelled in Linz at the World Junior Rowing Championships with a stunning set of gold, silver and bronze medals for the girls' four, boys' eight and girls' quadruple scull. It is one of the best ever showings for the kiwi ... More >>
Scullers continue impressive form
Sunday, 20 July 2008, 3:18 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Graham Oberlin-Brown and reigning champion Joseph Sullivan continued their rich run of form with impressive victories in the semi finals of the lightweight and heavyweight single sculls in Brandenburg at the World Under 23 Rowing Championships overnight. More >>
Kiwi rowers on the pace in Brandenburg
Friday, 18 July 2008, 11:04 am | Rowing New Zealand
The first day of the World Under-23 rowing championships provided a familiar story for New Zealand’s team. More >>
Gallagher Great Race promises superb rowing duel
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 5:06 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Less than a month after the Olympic rowing regatta concludes, top class rowing will once again hit the headlines in New Zealand when the Gallagher Great Race takes place on the Waikato River. More >>
Outward Bound Teams Up With Rowing New Zealand
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 4:03 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Rowing New Zealand today [26 June] announced a partnership with the Outward Bound Trust of New Zealand which its hopes will help see more athletes up on the dais post the Beijing Olympics. More >>
Illness forces twins to withdraw In Lucerne
Sunday, 1 June 2008, 11:50 am | Rowing New Zealand
Heat wins for Mahé Drysdale, Emma Twigg, Duncan Grant, Nathan Twaddle and George Bridgewater, Nathan Cohen and Rob Waddell, Storm Uru and Peter Taylor and the men's coxless four plus a second place for Nicky Coles and Juliette Haigh showed the New ... More >>
Sporting nation to tune into Drysdale v Waddell
Monday, 3 March 2008, 5:18 pm | Rowing New Zealand
The third – and potentially decisive – race between triple world champion Mahe Drysdale and 2000 Olympic champion Rob Waddell for the single sculling seat at the Beijing Olympics is to be broadcast live by TV1 and made available to all New Zealand ... More >>
Close call for the twins
Friday, 22 February 2008, 3:14 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Atrocious winds from the bad weather to hit New Zealand today caused havoc for the rowers in the first day of finals at the BankLink New Zealand Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro - and came very, very close to costing Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell ... More >>
Lightweights shine – Waikato Eight looks ominous
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 3:27 pm | Rowing New Zealand
The build up towards the weekend finals continued today at the BankLink New Zealand Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro - with impressive performances by the country's top lightweights and an ominous show of power from Waikato RPC's Premier Men's Eight. More >>
Black Blades power to three gold medals
Sunday, 2 September 2007, 1:34 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Mahé Drysdale took a third straight world title today in Munich and did it dominant style as New Zealand enjoyed another day of days on the international rowing scene with three gold medals. More >>
Rowing: Kiwis march on in Munich
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 4:10 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Three Kiwi boats were in action today in Quarter Finals and all marched impressively on to the next stage of the regatta. More >>
All Day 1 racers safely through in Munich
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 9:42 am | Rowing New Zealand
The first heats for small boats at the World Rowing Championships in Munich on Sunday should have been pretty much routine for the New Zealand crews, amongst the favourites in these events. And so they proved. More >>
Kiwi rowers in good shape for Munich World Champs
Friday, 24 August 2007, 4:13 pm | Rowing New Zealand
Rowing’s week long World Championships kick off this weekend in Munich and there is a weight of expectation that New Zealand crews will excel. The prospect of medals and surprise performances in pre-Olympic year is a real one. And following a successful ... More >>
Golden Day for NZ at World Under-23 Rowing Champs
Monday, 30 July 2007, 11:19 am | Rowing New Zealand
Three gold medals and one silver kept New Zealand Rowing’s flag flying high at the World Under-23 Championships in Strathclyde, Scotland today. In fast tail wind conditions, single scullers Storm Uru, Emma Twigg and Joseph Sullivan were the toast ... More >>
Uru in focus at World Under-23 Rowing Championship
Thursday, 26 July 2007, 2:40 pm | Rowing New Zealand
New Zealand Lightweight Single Sculler Storm Uru will be under the spotlight this weekend as he aims for a rare hat trick of medals at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships in Strathclyde, Scotland. More >>
$12 million project for Lake Karapiro launched
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 11:33 am | Rowing New Zealand
A major new development project designed to create a new High Performance Centre for Rowing and other sports like Canoe and Kayak, Cycling and Triathlon, was launched this week by several sporting governing bodies hoping to attract major private and ... More >>