Britain’s elite windsurfers proved their strength in depth with an impressive show at the first ever world championships for the iQFOiL class, Olympic sailing’s newest discipline. Less than a year since the iQFOiL was announced as the equipment of choice for windfoiling’s debut at the Paris 2024 Olympics, a 19-strong British contingent headed to Italy’s
The 2020 European Rowing Championships in Poznan, Poland saw an impressive eight gold medals for the Netherlands with Italy and Romania winning four each. Ukraine made a strong opening statement in the para rowing events with a silver for Anna Sheremet in the PR1 women’s single sculls and gold for Roman Polianskyi in the equivalent
Nacra 17 world champions John Gimson and Anna Burnet said they will “push harder” this winter after missing the podium at the European Championships by one point. The pair, picked to represent Team GB at Tokyo 2020, admitted to being disappointed not to leave Attersee, Austria, with a medal – but said it gave them
The pandemic could not slow down the excitement of staging an on-water regatta and Poznan, Poland is the location. More than 570 top European rowers from 31 nations will head to Poznan for the 2020 European Rowing Championships from 9-11 October 2020. As a result of the COVID-19 global pandemic, this will be the third
Nacra 17 world champions John Gimson and Anna Burnet will look to add a European title to their names as they head into battle in Attersee, Austria. The pair, who were selected to represent Team GB at Tokyo 2020 in February in the wake of their world title win (pictured above), were runners up at
The second part of the Regional Junior Championships took place this weekend – with sailors, parents and volunteers enjoying safe and fun racing at four regattas around the country. The young racers were rewarded with blue skies and a brisk wind as the second weekend of the Regional Junior Championships got underway. After a successful
Reigning champions and World Championships medallists Esah Hayat, Lewis Fletcher and Phoebe Suthers join former champion Peter Willcox among the leading entries for the LTA’s National Deaf Tennis Championships, which take place at the National Tennis Centre this weekend, 26 and 27 September. With singles, doubles, mixed doubles and junior titles to be decided during
The British Sailing Team’s riders continued their run of kite medals taking gold and bronze at the 2020 Formula Kite Mixed Team Relay European Championships in Traunsee, Austria. Connor Bainbridge and Ellie Aldridge followed up their individual Euros success to take team gold with Guy Bridge and Katie Dabson joining them on the podium taking
Junior Team Bath Tennis duo Izzie Britton and Luke Hooper were both victorious when they competed in the national finals of the 2020 Fred Perry Championship over the weekend. Their prize – for victory in the U12 Girls and U14 Boys events respectively – was a year’s clothing supply from Fred Perry and a tennis
Two days of racing in Duisburg, Germany concluded with plenty of gold for Italy, Romania and host nation Germany at the 2020 European Rowing Under 23 Championships. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held with a host of prevention measures including testing for teams arriving from ‘high-risk’ countries, hand sanitization at all entrances and
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