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BBC News
a day ago
- General
- BBC News
Rowing doctors from Frimley Hospital aim for world record
A rowing team including several doctors from Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey will attempt to set a new world record from group of 12 will try to row 1,000,000 metres non-stop on a pair of rowing machines in less than 62 hours at London's Paddington are also hoping to raise £169,000 for a Hampshire charity that provides exercise therapy for team is led by anaesthetist Gihan Ganesh, whose daughter received treatment for a rare tumour when she was a year old. He said he took up rowing as the only brief exercise he had time for during her has set the target of £169,000, as it will be £1,000 for every day she was money will be used to help the Momentum in Fitness charity provide exercise therapy at the Piam Brown children's cancer ward of Southampton General Hospital.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Henry leads GB gold rush at European Championships
Lauren Henry won gold in the women's quadruple sculls at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris [BBC] Great Britain surged to the top of the medal standings with five gold medals on the final day of the European Rowing Championships in Bulgaria. Lauren Henry, a reigning Olympic champion in the women's quadruple sculls, won gold in her first senior international regatta in the single sculls. Advertisement And a new-look GB crew continued their domination in the women's quadruple sculls, without Henry in the boat, as they defended their European title in Plovdiv. Britain also claimed a first ever men's quadruple sculls gold, while both the men's and women's boats won gold in the eights to take GB's total medal tally for the regatta to six gold, a silver and two bronze medals. Germany were second in the medal standings with five golds and one silver. "It's very, very special," said Henry, 23, after following up her British record time in the heats with victory in Sunday's final. Advertisement "I wanted to come here and make a mark and make a name for myself and I feel like I've done that. "I want to be world champion, I want to be Olympic champion, I want to break the world best time, I want to be the most successful British single sculler ever. That's my aim. I've still got many years to go but watch this space." Sunday's gold rush followed four medals for the British team on Saturday. Paralympic champion Benjamin Pritchard won the PR1 men's single sculls in a new world-record time of eight minutes 40.38 seconds, while Sam Murray and Annie Caddick claimed silver in the PR3 mixed double. Advertisement There were also bronze medals for GB in the women's four, and Eleanor Brinkhoff and Megan Slabbert in the women's pair.
BBC News
2 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Henry leads GB gold rush at European Championships
Great Britain surged to the top of the medal standings with five gold medals on the final day of the European Rowing Championships in Bulgaria. Lauren Henry, a reigning Olympic champion in the women's quadruple sculls, won gold in her first senior international regatta in the single sculls. And a new-look GB crew continued their domination in the women's quadruple sculls, without Henry in the boat, as they defended their European title in Plovdiv. Britain also claimed a first ever men's quadruple sculls gold, while both the men's and women's boats won gold in the eights to take GB's total medal tally for the regatta to six gold, a silver and two bronze medals. Germany were second in the medal standings with five golds and one silver. "It's very, very special," said Henry, 23, after following up her British record time in the heats with victory in Sunday's final. "I wanted to come here and make a mark and make a name for myself and I feel like I've done that. "I want to be world champion, I want to be Olympic champion, I want to break the world best time, I want to be the most successful British single sculler ever. That's my aim. I've still got many years to go but watch this space."Sunday's gold rush followed four medals for the British team on Saturday. Paralympic champion Benjamin Pritchard won the PR1 men's single sculls in a new world-record time of eight minutes 40.38 seconds, while Sam Murray and Annie Caddick claimed silver in the PR3 mixed were also bronze medals for GB in the women's four, and Eleanor Brinkhoff and Megan Slabbert in the women's pair.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Oar-kward! Emma Watson swaps Rowling for rowing as she lands role coxing her Oxford college team... but gets trounced
As swotty Hermione Granger, she had a reputation as one of the bossiest pupils at Hogwarts. Now that same forceful spirit is helping actress Emma Watson in her new role – coxing her Oxford college rowing eight. Our exclusive pictures captured her yelling instructions at the New College women's third team yesterday. But unfortunately her efforts were in vain, as her crew lost three of their four races across the week. To add insult to injury, rivals from Jesus College celebrated their victory by playing the Harry Potter theme tune – though the actress took their teasing in good spirits. And when her team lost the last race, she remained sportsmanlike when conceding defeat, giving her Somerville College opponents the thumb-ups. Ms Watson has been at Oxford since 2023, when she decided to take a hiatus from acting to take a master's degree in creative writing at Lady Margaret Hall. She has since reportedly progressed to a DPhil – Oxford's version of a PhD – at New College. As cox, the 35-year-old steered her crew along the Isis – as the Thames is called in Oxford – in the university's annual Summer Eights competition. She wore Ray-Ban sunglasses and a white baseball cap, while her crew had donned purple face paint and tied their hair back with purple ribbons, the boat club's colours. Crews start one-and-a-half boat lengths apart, and the aim is to catch up, or 'bump', the team ahead. The actress's team was bumped three out of four times, meaning they narrowly missed out on the humiliation of 'spoons' – the term when a boat is bumped every day. The performance may not have been helped by Ms Watson failing to attend the compulsory cox briefing before the competition began – as sources allege – because she was at the Cannes Film Festival. It was a rare appearance at the event for Ms Watson, whose last film was Little Women in 2019. While at Oxford, Ms Watson is said to be dating Kieran Brown, who just finished his doctorate at the university. They were spotted kissing at a Gail's Bakery in the city last year. Ms Watson, who is also a Prada ambassador and co-founder of the gin brand Renais, has been at loggerheads with Harry Potter creator JK Rowling over the author's views on trans issues. Last week a new Hermione was announced. Arabella Stanton, 11, will take over the role in the much-anticipated Harry Potter TV series for American broadcaster HBO, which is set to be filmed this summer. She previously took the title role of Matiltda on the West End stage.
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Pritchard wins Euros gold with another world record
Benjamin Pritchard's gold medal at the 2024 Paralympics was his first in a major international event [Getty Images] Great Britain's Benjamin Pritchard set a world record for the second time in three days as he became European champion on Saturday. The Paralympic champion broke the record in the PR1 men's single sculls on day one of the European Rowing Championships. Advertisement Pritchard posted a time of eight minutes 47.88 seconds to book his place in the final in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The 33-year-old Welshman then topped that two days later, winning in a time of 8:40.38 to claim his first European title. That was enough to beat the previous world-record holder, Ukraine's Roman Polianskyi, who was second in 8:51.93, while Italy's Giacomo Perini was third (8:55.96). Samuel Murray and Annabel Caddick then finished second in the PR3 mixed double sculls final. The British pair finished in 7:03.54, while Germany's Valentin Luz and Kathrin Marchand won it in 6:57.41. Advertisement GB's Eleanor Brinkhoff and Megan Slabbert also claimed a podium finish in the women's pair final. They were third in 6:55.47, with the Romanian pair of Maria Magdalena Rusu and Simona Radis (6:49.18) winning ahead of Laura Meriano and Alice Codato from Italy (6:52.64).
