After a gruelling winter of training, Nash and his team-mates have their last big chance to impress selectors in race conditions when the Olympic Trials take place at the national training centre in Caversham from March 21-23.

Nash has been through that process before in 2012 when, as a 22-year-old, his mature Trials performance secured a place in the men’s pair with Will Satch – a decision that paid dividends when the rookies won a bronze medal at the London Olympics.

He is in a stronger position now, having won world titles in the men’s eight in 2013 and 2015 plus men’s four gold in 2014, but is not taking his place at Rio for granted.

“The attitude that I take to training and competition is very much forward looking,” said Nash.

“I try to ignore any past success and sort of recreate the feeling I had when I first came into the team.

“I like to feel like the underdog rather than the guy who has to be beaten. I still like to feel like I am proving myself.

Alex Gregory, Moe Sbihi, George Nash and Andrew Triggs-Hodge won men's four gold at the 2014 World Championships. ©Peter Spurrier/Intersport Images

George Nash was in the men's eight that won a third successive World Championships gold in 2015. ©Peter Spurrier/Intersport Images

“I am kind of a less risky option this time round. I came into the squad just a year before the last Olympics and the coaches had no idea how I would perform under pressure.

“I’ve had three-and-a-half years to prove myself this time round and am more of a known quantity but I still have to justify my position.

“Because there is so much on the line in Olympic year, the internal competition during training has been fierce. It makes you realise that you have to live up to the standard of everyone else around you.”

Double Olympic champion Pete Reed, a crew-mate of Nash in last year’s triumphant men’s eight, believes this is the strongest men’s sweep squad he has ever seen.

And Nash agrees, saying: “We’ve had a really good winter of training and the overall level has stepped on massively across the whole team.

“Racing in training has been very close, which just reaffirms the quality of the guys.”

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The GB mixed coxed four won Paralympic rowing gold on home water at Eton Dorney to end an emotional day on a high note.

The ParalympicsGB rowers had qualified all three crews for the medal finals but there was a shock start for the team and the crowd when reigning World and Paralympic Champion Tom Aggar finished fourth, outside the medals, in the Arms and Shoulders only single scull behind China, Australia and Russia.

The Trunk and Arms mixed double of Army Captain Nick Beighton and Sam Scowen – who only started racing together last year – produced a great performance to also finish fourth, just two-tenths of a second behind the USA in bronze, with the Chinese double winning gold and France silver.

Then came the four. Their German rivals set a new World Best Time of 3:15.91 in the heats and took the lead in the final.

But the British crew of Pamela Relph, Naomi Riches, David Smith, James Roe and cox Lily van den Broecke reeled them in and hit the front just before they started passing the grandstands for a memorable, raucous finish to the Paralympic regatta.

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28 rowers in nine boat classes have won medals this week and all 47 rowers reached the Olympic finals in front of record crowds at Eton-Dorney.

‘We have had a fabulous campaign,” said GB Rowing Team Performance Director David Tanner. “To get four golds, two silvers and three bronzes is something special for a modern Olympic regatta.

“I’m proud too of our 13 A-finalist boats but the thrill has been our medals. Every boat has fought so hard. I give absolute credit to our rowers, our coaching staff and team support. We are a team and we work as a team. Together we have been so strong and so much stronger than any other nation, which is a source of great pride and pleasure.”

After a week in which GB had already won gold in the women’s double scull and pair, silver in the lightweight men’s four and three bronzes from the men’s single scull, men’s pair and men’s eight, the men’s four – of Andrew Triggs Hodge, Tom James, Peter Reed and Alex Gregory – set this morning’s race programme alight with a towering performance against arch-rivals Australia to take gold with the USA in third.

“We have just executed a masterpiece”, said Hodge. “It took us four years to perfect that.”

Kat Copeland and Sophie Hosking added a fairytale second gold in the lightweight women’s double scull. Copeland seemed shell-shocked at their success, beating the World Champions from Greece in the process.

“I tried to treat it like any other race at Dorney, as though it was the Trials or something,” said Copeland. “It was only when we crossed the line that I realised it was actually the Olympic Games.”

Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase’s defence of their title was at first stalled by a seat malfunction which caused the race to be re-started and then by a Danish crew who proved too hot to handle on the day.

Leading in the final 500m, Hunter and Purchase’s grip on the title only faded in the final 50m.

Hunter said: “Losing our Olympic title hurts incredibly. We have had such great support here from the crowd and the best support team in the world. We feel we let everyone down today by not winning. We gave everything we could. We raced as we wanted to, these guys (the Danes) were just quicker than us today.”

The British squad has added to its already rich history at these Games. A GB men’s quadruple scull reached the final for the first time; Britain won a men’s single scull medal for the first time since 1928; the GB women won their first Olympic gold – and then added two more; the men’s four made it four successive golds; and GB topped the medal table for the sport for the second successive Games.

Young rowers like Copeland, Will Satch, George Nash, Mohamed Sbihi, James Foad, Tom Ransley, Constantine Louloudis and others were amongst the medallists, showing that the sport has a strong base going forward to Rio.

The crowds attending the rowing created an electric atmosphere and the British rowers responded in a remarkable way to the their support.

“We will never live this moment again,” said Katherine Grainger after winning gold at the fourth attempt. “It is so, so special.”

Watkins added: “It felt like the crowd were in front of you and around you and behind you. It was like racing in a stadium. It was addictive and exciting.”

Triggs Hodge said: “Everyone has contributed to our success – every single person here as well as our families, our friends, our support teams.”

Tanner added: “We could not, of course, have achieved what we have done without the significant support we receive from the lottery and from our sponsors.”

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“We knew we were capable of this in our heads and in our hearts but we still had to deliver it”, said Watkins.

Asked what it was like to finally be an Olympic Champion, Grainger said: “It’s very hard to put into words but it’s every bit as wonderful as you might think.”

Before that final the young GB men’s pair of Will Satch and George Nash had wowed the crowd with a bronze on their Olympic debuts.

“It shows if you do the training and you stick to the programme you can do it,” said Satch.

Whilst Grainger and Watkins were still letting it sink in, Alan Campbell won bronze in the men’s single scull – a medal at his third Games of trying in a race won by his friend Mahe Drysdale from New Zealand.

Much earlier the GB men’s quadruple scull of four-times Olympian Matt Wells, Stephen Rowbotham, Charles Cousins and Tom Solesbury produced a strong performance to hold onto fifth place in their final.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE ROWERS?

Tomorrow sees the final day of rowing at the 2012 Games. Britain has three boats in action: the men’s four and the two lightweight men’s doubles.

Andrew Triggs Hodge, Peter Reed, Tom James and Alex Gregory are the men’s four and they race at 11.30.

Reed, Hodge and James are defending champions whilst Gregory and James are reigning world champions. They face a potentially tough race with Australia as the main opposition.

Kat Copeland and Sophie Hosking are the lightweight women’s double whose final is at 11.50. They rowed through the Greek World Champions in the semis to qualify for tomorrow’s final.

The final crew to race at the Olympic regatta for Great Britain will be the defending Beijing champions Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase in the lightweight men’s double scull. Their race starts at 12.10.

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“It shows the depth of our squad, the quality of our coaching and support team and I am very, very proud of this squad.

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“I think I was slightly aware but it was not until we crossed the line that I realise just how big the expectations were,” said Glover.

“Hopefully it’ s a sign of things to come across Team GB. Let’s go for it, let’s make it our Games. I’d also like to think this will inspire more people to be active and enjoy sport.”

Stanning added: “I couldn’t hear what Helen was saying, I couldn’t see the bubble line and all I could hear was the crowd cheering. It was such fantastic support. We’re delighted, it’s brilliant.”

The British men’s eight also took a medal today – a bronze – after a gutsy row in which they took the race to the unbeaten Germans in the first half but did not have enough to hold on to the line, leaving Canada to take silver from a fast finish.

“We may have sacrificed a silver but we gave it our all,” said Matt Langridge from the eight.

The British women’s quadruple scull were desperately unlikely to catch a crab within the first 30 strokes and were always out of contention from there.

Earlier the equivalent men’s boat qualified for the final on Friday in third place, again making history as the first GB boat in this category to qualify for an Olympic final.

Alan Campbell is safely through to the final of the men’s single scull with a second-placed semi-final finish today and the new, young GB men’s pair of Will Satch and George Nash led from the front to win their semi-final. The red-heads were in red hot form today and have laid down a marker for the final.

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Grainger and Watkins, who recorded an Olympic best time of 6:44.33, are now through to the final on Friday and the men’s four of Andrew Triggs Hodge, Tom James, Peter Reed and Alex Gregory will race a semi-final on Thursday.

“Part of me thought it would be good to see how fast we could go today and we certainly have more but the final is the big one,” said Grainger. “No-one will remember on Friday who won the heat. It’s a new job to do.”

Watkins added: “Today was a wonderful bonus and a fantastic confidence boost that we are on absolutely on track.”

The Team GB men’s eight were winners of a sparkling repechage in which the home combination produced a strong first half and then controlled the race to win in 5:26.85. Their final is on Wednesday.

The women’s quadruple scull of Beth Rodford, Melanie Wilson, Frances Houghton and Debbie Flood hauled themselves back from sixth place at halfway to qualify for Wednesday’s final in third place, with only four progressing.

GB Rowing Team Performance Director David Tanner said: “We’ve had an excellent day today with the men’s four and the women’s double showing their standard in winning their heats and the men’s eight and women’s quad both qualifying for their A finals through the repechage.

“With all the heats completed we have placed ourselves in a strong position to step through the next rounds and gain more A final places in the next few days”.

Tomorrow’s race programme sees semi-finals for the men’s double scull and lightweight men’s four whilst the women’s eight will race a repechage in which four places for the final will be up for grabs.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE ROWERS?

Tomorrow’s race programme starts at 09.30. The Team GB women’s eight, stroked by Vicky Thornley and coxed by Caroline O’Connor, will be the first in action for the home side at 10.50 in their repechage from which the top four progress to Thursday’s final.

Alan Campbell races his quarter-final of the men’s single scull at 11.10. A top-three finish would see him through to the semis on Wednesday.

Sam Townsend and Bill Lucas reached their semi of the men’s double, starting at 12.30 tomorrow, with a storming second place behind the New Zealanders who are World Champions in a very fast heat on Saturday.

Brothers Richard and Peter Chambers plus Chris Bartley and Rob Williams will feature in Team GB’s final race of the day at 12.40. They won their lightweight men’s four heat in style earlier in the programme and have avoided some of their big rivals – China, Denmark and South Africa – in tomorrow’s semis.

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They were drawn together today, despite their pedigrees, because of Hunter and Purchase’s topsy-turvy results at recent world cups.

Sophie Hosking and Kat Copeland in the equivalent women’s GB boat will also feature on the same day’s race card. The duo unleashed a powerful surge just beyond halfway and went on to win in 6:59.97 – by far the fastest time across the three heats.

Whilst the British women’s eight, bronze medallists at the season’s final world cup, admitted that they weren’t at their best today in finishing third in a heat won convincingly by the Olympic champions from the USA, they believe there is more to come in Tuesday’s repechage.

WHAT’S AHEAD FOR THE ROWERS?

Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins open their Olympic account tomorrow in the heats of the women’s double scull as do the men’s four of Alex Gregory, Pete Reed, Tom James and Andrew Triggs Hodge.

The British men’s eight, featuring three returning Beijing silver medallists Alex Partridge, Matt Langridge and Ric Egington will race their repechage of the men’s eight.

Beijing quadruple scull silver medallists Frances Houghton and Debbie Flood line up with Melanie Wilson and Beth Rodford in the repechage of the same event here tomorrow.

Racing starts at 09.30.

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Theirs was one of four heat victories from eight starts for the Team GB rowers today – enough to prompt Team GB rowing leader David Tanner to describe it as ” an exciting start” but cautioning that it would get “tougher from here”.

Glover was also keeping her feet on the ground whilst praising the crowd of 30,000. “The atmosphere is fantastic, the noise was amazing. For us, though, it was a standard row without the fireworks you might expect in a final.”

Stanning concurred: “We felt we had a relaxed row and now it’s all about the final. That’s the race we came here for.”

The lightweight men’s four of Peter and Richard Chambers plus Rob Williams and Chris Bartley were strong performers in their heat to win in 5:49.29 from Australia’s reigning world champions.

Britain’s other two victories came from the newcomer men’s pair of Will Satch and George Nash, who produced a poised first race at such a major event, and Alan Campbell, who looked in fine form in the men’s single scull.

Campbell moves to a quarter-final whilst the lightweight four and men’s pair move to semi-finals – all on Tuesday.

Sam Townsend and Bill Lucas were delighted with their performance in taking second place behind New Zealand who set an Olympic best time in the men’s double scull.

Cox Phelan Hill says “there is definitely more to come” from the British men’s eight who closed back up on eventual winners Germany in the second half of their heat today before taking second place and moving into the repechage on Monday.

The GB men’s quad are through to a semi-final with a comfortable second place today and Debbie Flood was clear that there were still options for the women’s quad who were fourth in their heat.

“We know we have the speed,” she said. “We just need to do a few things better to pick it up.” They also race a repechage on Monday.

WHAT’S AHEAD FOR THE ROWERS?

A further three boats will race opening heats on the second day – the women’s eight, lightweight men’s and women’s double scull.

In the lightweight men’s double scull Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter begin the defence of their Beijing crown, having had a roller-coaster season so far.

“We’ve had a good few weeks at training camp and we feel we are in a good place”, said Hunter recently.

Sophie Hosking and Kat Copeland contest the lightweight women’s double scull. Neither has raced at a Games before but Hosking has experience in the same event for the past three years at World Championship level, including two bronze medals in 2009 and 2011. Copeland was world U23 lightweight single scull champion last year and won the GB Senior Team Trials in that event.

The women’s eight finished the world cup season on a high after winning bronze in Munich. Cox Caroline O’Connor, Natasha Page, Louisa Reeve, Jess Eddie, Katie Greves, Annie Vernon and Olivia Whitlam are all Beijing Olympians – albeit not all in the women’s eight – whilst Lindsey Maguire and Vicky Thornley are World senior medallists.

Meanwhile the women’s double scull, featuring world champions Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins, and the men’s four – with world champion Alex Gregory and three Beijing gold medallists Andrew Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed and Tom James on board – will race for the first time on Monday.

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“Our recent training camps have gone well. We managed to escape the not-so-nice bits of the British summer and that was a big plus with great water conditions, particularly at our tuning camps in Southern Europe.

“I am sure that this is the best team that we have brought to a Games and I am confident that we will deliver on the water.”

Helen Glover and Heather Stanning will be first to the start line for Team GB in the women’s pair in the session starting at 09.30 on Saturday. Glover, a former PE teacher from Cornwall, and Stanning, an Army Captain from Lossiemouth, have been world silver medallists in each of the past two years.

Twice Olympic silver medallists Frances Houghton, racing at her fourth Games, and Debbie Flood, contesting her third Games, feature in the women’s quad in the same session alongside relative newcomer Melanie Wilson and 2010 World Champion, Beth Rodford.

The British team will contest a further six heats in that opening session.

1992 Olympic gold medallist Greg Searle has already confessed that he will have a lump in his throat when he races the opening heat of the men’s eight in a multi-talented crew including cox Phelan Hill, Constantine Louloudis at stroke, Olympic silver medallists Matthew Langridge, Ric Egington and Alex Partridge as well as world silver medallists James Foad, Tom Ransley and Mohamed Sbihi.

“It’s a privilege to row with such a talented crew”, said Searle. “It will feel different to 20 years ago but it will also be the same. I wanted to win then and we are ambitious to do the same here”.

Sbihi added: “I feel like we have definitely improved since the last world cup and I feel we are in a good place going into the Games. But it’s a very strong field, to be honest, anyone can make a final and anyone can make a medal.

“So I think it’s all about us effectively. I’m not really fussed about what the Germans or the Americans of the Canadians or others have done. It’s about what we have done and I trust in what we have done.”

Britain’s lightweight men’s four features the Chambers brothers, Peter and Richard, from Coleraine in Northern Ireland. They are the first set of brothers to race in the same crew since the Searles’ win in Barcelona with cox Garry Herbert.

The brothers are joined in the lightweight men’s four at Eton-Dorney by Rob Williams, who completed a PhD in crystallography just a month ago, and Welshman Chris Bartley, a talented photographer and rowing coach. This crew won the season’s final world cup but know they will face stiff opposition, particularly from China, in this fiercely competitive event.

Richard, the elder of the two brothers, said: “We’ve had a good couple of camps and we’ve worked hard. We know that ours is a very competitive event and that even at semi-final stage we’ll see some real knuckledusters of races.”

All three men’s sculling boats will be in action on the opening day. Alan Campbell makes a trio of Coleraine connections when he races the men’s single scull. Campbell has been on the world cup and World Championships podium several times since making the final in Beijing.

Bill Lucas and Sam Townsend, both graduates of a GB Rowing Team “Start” talent identification and development system, are the new-look British double scull this season. The Devon-Reading combination are looking to improve on their world cup performances here.

“We have had two really good training camps in the past six weeks,” said Lucas. “The work camp in the mountains went really well and then we did some speed work in Portugal. We’ve made some technical progress.”

Townsend will marry team-mate Natasha Page, who races in the women’s eight at the Games, later next month.

Stephen Rowbotham and Matt Wells, Beijing double scull bronze medallists, race in 2012 in the men’s quad. They are joined by Olympic debutant Charles Cousins and Tom Solesbury who rowed in a pair in Beijing.

The final crew in action on opening day will be the men’s pair of Will Satch and George Nash. The talented duo, both former youth medallists, made an impact in their debut senior season this year and will look to upset the pre-existing form book here.

A further three boats will race opening heats on the second day – the women’s eight, lightweight women’s and men’s double scull. The latter will be raced by defending Beijing winners Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter.

Meantime, the women’s double scull, featuring world champions Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins, and the men’s four with world champion Alex Gregory and three Beijing gold medallists Andrew Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed and Tom James on board will race for the first time on Monday.

Watkins said today that the GB team were looking forward to racing, were enjoying the Olympic set-up and felt quite relaxed: “We have a very good set up within our own team and it’s a very familiar environment, we are keeping ourselves to ourselves.”

Grainger added: “For us it’s just a case of fulfilling our potential, which is what you want to do in an Olympic race, to be the fastest crew in the world. It’s more about going as fast as we possibly can – the actual result we don’t focus on because that will take care of itself. It’s more about how we race.”

Tom James, from the men’s four, said: “We’ve made some good changes to how we row and I think we learnt from our mistakes [at the last world cup] in Munich.”

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Crews listed Bow to Stroke followed by
(Club, Home Town, Date of Birth)

OPEN WOMEN

Pair
Helen Glover (Minerva Bath, Penzance, 17/06/86)
Heather Stanning (Army RC, Lossiemouth, 26/01/85)
Coach: Robin Williams

Eight
Olivia Whitlam (Agecroft RC, Warrington, 16/09/85)
Louisa Reeve (Leander Club, London, 17/05/84)
Jessica Eddie (Univ of London BC, Durham, 07/10/84)
Lindsey Maguire (Wallingford RC, Edinburgh, 15/01/82)
Natasha Page (Gloucester RC, Hartpury, 30/04/85)
Annabel Vernon (Leander Club, Wadebridge, 01/09/82)
Katie Greves (Leander Club, Oxford, 02/09/82)
Victoria Thornley (Leander Club, Wrexham, 30/11/87)
Caroline O’Connor (cox) (Oxford Brookes Univ BC, Ealing, London, 25/04/83)
Coach: Nick Strange

Double Scull
Anna Watkins (Leander Club, Leek, Staffs, 13/02/83)
Katherine Grainger (St Andrew BC, Aberdeen, 12/11/75)
Coach: Paul Thompson

Quadruple Scull
Melanie Wilson (Imperial College BC, London, 25/06/84)
Debbie Flood (Leander Club, Guiseley, W. Yorks, 27/02/80)
Frances Houghton (Leander Club, Oxford, 19/09/80)
Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC, Gloucester, 28/12/82)
Coach: Ade Roberts

Spares
Jo Cook (Leander Club, Sunbury-on-Thames, 22/03/84)
Emily Taylor (Leander Club, Lincoln, 28/06/87)

OPEN MEN

Pair
George Nash (Molesey BC, Guildford, 02/10/89)
Will Satch (Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames, 09/06/89)
Coaches: Christian Felkel & John West

Four
Alex Gregory (Leander Club, Wormington, 11/03/84)
Pete Reed (Leander Club, Nailsworth, Glos, 27/07/81)
Tom James (Molesey BC, Wrexham, 11/03/84)
Andrew Triggs Hodge (Molesey BC, Hebden, N. Yorks, 03/03/79)
Coach: JĂŒrgen Grobler

Eight
Alex Partridge (Leander Club, Alton, Hants, 25/01/81)
James Foad (Molesey BC, Southampton, 20/03/87)
Tom Ransley (York City RC, Cambridge, 06/09/85)
Richard Egington (Leander Club, Knutsford, 26/02/79)
Mohamed Sbihi (Molesey BC, Surbiton, 27/03/88)
Greg Searle (Molesey BC, Marlow, 20/03/72)
Matt Langridge (Leander Club, Northwich, 20/05/83)
Constantine Louloudis (Leander Club, London, 15/09/91)
Phelan Hill (cox) (Leander Club, Bedford, 21/07/79)
Coaches: Christian Felkel & John West

Single Scull
Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers School, Coleraine, 09/05/83)
Coach: Bill Barry

Double Scull
Bill Lucas (London RC, Kingswear, Devon, 13/09/87)
Sam Townsend (Reading Univ BC, Reading, 26/11/85)
Coach: Mark Earnshaw

Quadruple Scull
Stephen Rowbotham (Leander Club, Winscombe, Somerset, 11/11/81)
Charles Cousins (Reading Univ BC, Willingham, Cambs, 13/12/88)
Tom Solesbury (Leander Club, Petts Wood, Kent, 23/09/90)
Matthew Wells (Leander Club, Hexham, Northumberland, 19/04/79)
Coach: Mark Banks

Spares
Marcus Bateman (Leander Club, Torquay, 16/09/82)
Cameron Nichol (Molesey BC, London, 26/06/87)

LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN

Double Scull
Sophie Hosking (London RC, Wimbledon, 25/01/86)
Katherine Copeland (Tees RC. Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, 01/12/90)
Coach: Paul Reedy

LIGHTWEIGHT MEN

Four
Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Univ BC, Coleraine, 14/03/90)
Rob Williams (London RC, Maidenhead, 21/01/85)
Richard Chambers (Leander Club, Coleraine, 10/06/85)
Chris Bartley (Leander Club, Chester, 02/02/84)
Coach: Rob Morgan

Double Scull

Zac Purchase (Marlow RC, Tewkesbury, 02/05/86)
Mark Hunter (Leander Club, Romford, Essex, 01/07/78)
Coach: Darren Whiter

Spare
Adam Freeman-Pask (Imperial College BC, Windsor, 19/6/85)

TEAM SUPPORT
David Tanner: Team Leader
Maurice Hayes: Equipment Manager
Ann Redgrave: Doctor
John Tetley: Boatman
Mark Edgar: Physio / Head of Rowing Medical Service
Caroline Searle: Press Officer
Sally Brown: Physio
Maggie Netto: Asst. Team Leader *
Liz Arnold: Physio
Jo Bates: Administrator *
Karen Burn: Physio *
Mark Homer: Sports Scientist
Craig Williams: Sports Scientist
Chris Shambrook: Psychologist *
Alistair Patterson: Performance Analyst *

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The BOA delivers extensive support services to Britain’s Olympic athletes and their National Governing Bodies to enhance Olympic success and is responsible for championing the Olympic values and brand in the UK. The BOA receives no funding from the lottery or government, has no political interests and is completely dependent upon fundraising income to achieve its mission. The BOA is the strong, independent voice for British Olympic Sport.

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The GB Rowing Team trains, prepares and selects crews to represent Great Britain in international competitions at junior, U23 and senior level, from Under 16s to World Cups, World Championships the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games.
The GB Rowing Team has a proud history as one of GB’s most successful Olympic sports producing World and Olympic Champions from across the UK.

GB Rowing Team website: /gb-rowing-team
GB Rowing Team Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gbrowingteam
GB Rowing Team Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gbrowingteam

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