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Visser and McCann scoop top awards at UJ
South African long-jump champion Zarck Visser and international rowing gold medallist Kirsten McCann were named Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year at the University of Johannesburg’s gala sports...
View ArticleGold medallist rower Brittain hangs up his oars
Olympic gold medallist rower, Matthew Brittain has announced his retirement due to a persistent back injury. “I’ve retired officially… for the sake of the team. They can’t train with me with a second...
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SA rowers go to great heights in Rio preparations
Far from the comforts of their base in Pretoria, the South African rowing team have been sweating it out at a three-week high-altitude training camp on the Katse Dam in an isolated part of Lesotho’s...
View ArticleCoach Barrow opts for specialised approach in 2014
National rowing coach Roger Barrow has adopted an alternative approach to our elite athletes’ training this season, writes Mark Etheridge. The rowing code, in the shape of the lightweight men’s fours,...
View ArticleAce rowers get ready to fly SA flag at World Champs
By Mark Etheridge The Commonwealth Games fade into the distance but for South African rowing the World Championships loom large on the horizon. That code’s elite athletes come together from all over...
View ArticleOlympic medallist Thompson takes the time to plough back knowledge
By Mark Etheridge Every Olympic gold medallist will tell you there’s no short cut on the road to ultimate sporting glory – and yet some of them have faced just as tough a challenge a long way out from...
View ArticleEven Olympic rowers still have ‘Grand’ aspirations
Imagine winning a gold medal at the Olympic Games and then being told by your coach that you won’t be acknowledged as a true rower in South Africa until you have won the ‘The Grand’. John Smith just...
View ArticleVeteran Ndlovu still motivated by 2012′s golden memories
At the ‘ripe old age’ of 34 Sizwe Ndlovu is certainly the ‘old man’ of the Olympian rowing squad based at the Tuks High Performance Centre (hpc) in Pretoria. However, this does not mean that he is...
View ArticleOlympian Smith pulls out all the stops in ‘Grand’ style
By winning the Silver Sculls as well as the Grand Challenge (senior coxless fours) at the 128th running of the Buffalo Regatta in East London at the weekend, South Africa’s London Olympics gold...
View ArticleOlympic rower pulls out all the stops to beat cancer
Although Lawrence Brittain can claim to be South Africa’s first ever rowing world champion, this was by no means his greatest achievement. No, being able to beat the scourge of cancer was a whole lot...
View ArticleFour golds for SA rowers at Italian regatta
South African rowers certainly made their presence felt during the three days of racing at the Memorial Paolo D’Aloja Regatta in Piedilaco, Italy. They won four of the nine finals in which they...
View ArticleOlympians Thompson and Smith in record-breaking form
South Africa’s top rowers do not accept mediocrity … that much became abundantly clear at the South African Rowing Championships at the Roodeplaat Dam over the weekend. As was expected, 2012 Olympians...
View ArticleClear of cancer at last, Brittain now focuses on France
By Mark Etheridge After digging deep to rid himself of cancer, rower Lawrence Brittain is back in the fast lane and hoping to book his place on the South African team for World Championships in France...
View ArticleSA para-rowers grab gold and silver in Gavirate regatta
By Mark Etheridge South Africa’s para-rowers have returned from an international regatta in Gavirate, Italy with a gold and silver medal. The competition was a double regatta formula which meant the...
View ArticleIt just gets better for cancer-beating Brittain as he gets nod for top events
Just four months after beating cancer, Lawrence Brittain will represent South Africa at the Henley Royal Regatta and the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland next month. And it seems something...
View ArticleSouth African rowing ace gets great global exposure
Johannesburg rowing cox Willie Morgan recently returned from an international regatta in Italy where he helped one of Team South Africa’s para-rowing crews earned a silver medal, writes Mark Etheridge....
View ArticleSA rowers look to pull out all the stops at Henley Regatta
Three South African crews will be in action at the historic Henley Regatta in Britain this week. Shaun Keeling and David Hunt (pictured above) team up in the men’s pairs, Olympian James Thompson and...
View ArticleSA’s world champions battle to second spot at Henley
Although South Africa’s world champion rowers, James Thompson and John Smith, ‘gave as good as they got’ in the weekend’s Henley Regatta’s Double Sculls Challenge Cup final, they had to settle for...
View ArticleSilver celebrations for SA’s rowers in Switzerland
South Africa’s rowers were in awesome form over the weekend, winning two silver medals and having two more crews competing in the A Finals at the World Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland. John Smith and James...
View ArticleSA’s top rowers are in France, pulling for places in next year’s Olympics
‘The moment of truth is upon us.’ This is how the World Rowing Championships, which begin on Sunday in Aiguebelette, France, is perceived by rowers all over the world, including the cream of South...
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