Athletes

In this section Kevin Berry, Olympic historian and gold medallist swimmer, recounts the stories of some of the the great past champions of rowing from around the world and reveals some interesting historical facts about the sport.

Clicking on the titles will take you to the following articles:

Vyacheslav Ivanov	Merv Wood
Youngest and Oldest Gold in Rowing	First Sport Rowing?
Bobby Pearce	Stuart Mackenzie
Happy Event - Bill Havens	Pertti Karppinen
John Kelly	Anita De Frantz
Henry Searle	Dr. Benjamin Spock
Silken Lauman	1962 Australian Eight
Edward Trickett	William Beach
The Pearce Family	George Rogers
Rowing at the Commonwealth Games	Frederick Septimus Kelly
Jack Beresford	Yale Crew of '56
James Stanbury	Lake Wendouree
New Zealand's success in 1968	First Rowing Race between women
Teun Beijen - Rower & Resistance Hero	Sir Stephen Redgrave
Discontinued Events	Lynette Skelton - veteran rower with a mission