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GB Rowing News : 2007

Grainger, Reed and Hodge take trials titles

Peter Reed and Andy Hodge won the first men's pairs contest of the Olympic season whilst Katherine Grainger won the equivalent women's battle, raced in singles, at British Winter Assessment Trials in Boston, Lincs.

Purchase and Pauls take lightweight honours

Zac Purchase and Mathilde Pauls won the men's and women's lightweight single scull 5km GB Assessment trials in Boston, Lincs, yesterday.

Bronze and brace of top five finishes

Alice Freeman followed up her world championships bronze from earlier this month with a second senior bronze today at the European Championships in Poznan, Poland.

Two golds, three bronzes for Olympic boats

Medals for all British crews in Olympic class finals at the World Championships in Munich.

Flagship thwarted, others win medals

Britain won two Olympic class bronze medals as well as a Paralympic class gold and silver but the double world champions and Camelot-backed men's four lost their crowns.

19 Crews now through to finals

At the world championships in Munich today a further five British crews qualified for the weekend's finals to join the fourteen already through.

Close call and a sizzling sprint finish

Eight British boats qualified for Saturday's finals from semi-finals - five in Olympic, two in Paralympic and one in international classes.

Day of sharp contrasts

Women's eight progressed to final; men's eight won their repechage to progress to semi-finals; disappointment as men's quad edged into third place in repechage.

First Beijing slot booked

The Camelot backed women's quadruple scull secured a spot in Beijing by winning their heat in Munich and qualifying for the final.

Five from six Olympic class boats win heats

British crews won five out of the six Olympic class heats in which they were involved on the opening day of the World Championships in Munich.