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The Global Game
Overview
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Australia
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Canada
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FISA
Currently organises the World Cup, WorldChampionship , Interntional Regattas and Olympic rowing events.
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On Stream
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I Row
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Regatta Online
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Row2K
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About Rowing
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Open Water
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Next major events
Calendar
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The Rowing Service
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Physics of Rowing
FAQ
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Rec-Sport Rowing
FAQ
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Racing Calendar
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Row 2k
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Rachel Quarrel
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The Boat Race official site
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Background and History
From Wikipedia
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Chiswick Pier Trust
And Thames Pilot cover the boat race with some history
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Oxford University Rowing Club
For the latest news
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Cambridge University Rowing Club
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The Boat Race Forum
Express your views and get the latest action
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BBC Sport
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World Rowing
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The 2006 Race
From BBC Sports including explanations for those less familiar with the sport
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WWW Rowing
Page. The virtual library for rowing - a first stop for all links
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Rec-Sport Rowing
Faq - will provide answers to most of your questions about rowing, from history to technique, boats...
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The Rowing Service
By Rachel Quarrell, Oxford, UK - a comprehensive and regularly updated resource.
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Rowing New South Wales
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HickOkSports
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Eton Rowing
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About Rowing
A wide range of resources for the sport
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Why do you Row
From Concept 2 Rowing; 43 rowers explain what attracts them to the sport.
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Wikipedia definition of Sport Rowing
And includes a useful history section. A great place to start to get to know about the sport.
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Getting Started in Rowing
From the USA Olympic Site; identifies clubs and camps to get you going and introduces the National Team feeder system involving the nation-wide high school program
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How to get into Rowing
BBC Sport takes up on Sir Steve Redgrave's incredible achievement of winning five gold medals to stimulate interest in the UK
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Try my sport
Covers rowing clubs to get started at
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Marathon Rowing Rules and Regulations
From Concept 2 Rowing
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Rowing Rules
Compiled by HockOkSports from the top sources
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Fisa information on Rowing Technique
A down-loadable pdf file - a must for the beginner and expert alike
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Faq - Physics of Rowing
Contains a lot of useful background to the technique of Rowing
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Rowing Technique
The Mike Spracklen Method - painting a clear picture; useful presentation of power, stroke, rhythm ...
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Catch, Drive and Recovery
Rowing technique; some basic aims, some practical teaching points, common errors and fault correction exercises.
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Rowing Training Physiology and Performance
A series of very helpful articles
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York University downloadable file on Rowing Technique
12 pages of information
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Sport Rowing History
From Wikipedia; "The first modern rowing races, in the second half of the 18th century, were races between watermen on the River Thames in England.".....
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Friends of Rowing History
With an emphasis on North American Rowing; an informal group working closely with the National Rowing Foundation and also with Mystic Seaport - the Museum of America and the Sea - to help establish a rowing history presence.
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Rachel Quarrell covers the History of Rowing
With reference to web-links and books.
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History of Rowing
A time line from ARA, starting from the 1700's
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Digital Rowing
What it is and how to do it.
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Talk about Rowing
Strong on technique and current news
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Front Rower
Forward facing rowing systems and boats for touring and exercise. Articles, reviews, video clips, links
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Row 2k
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Rachel Quarrel
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Jamco Collegiate
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Virtual Library
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RowNow
News updates and results for rowing enthusiasts.
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Google
Rowing Directory
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Rowers World
Offers a selection of a wide variety of items. Includes tips, results, and e-zine
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Venetian rowing
The oarsman faces forward; the technique explained
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World Rowing
Official site for FISA; rules, news, events (including Olympic Rowing and the Rowing World Cup), calendar, top rowers, training....
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Rowing World Cup
Background from Wikipedia covers the venues from 1997
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Rowing Workd Championships
And the Rowing World Cup covering the BearingPoint races at Eaton, UK 2005
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The Amateur Rowing Association
ARA, national governing body for the sport of Rowing in England and responsible for the Great Britain Team. Getting Started, traditional and extreme rowing, history
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Coast Amateur Rowing Association
CARA;the governing body for coastal rowing clubs wishing to promote or compete in the South East of England. Clubs, calendar, resultsm features
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David Biddulph's
Rowing pages seem to have links to anything connected with UK rowing from regattas to club websites and records....
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New Rowing Information
From Rachel Quarrel keeps you update on the events, on a daily basis
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Try my sport
Covers rowing clubs to get started at rowing
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Leander
A rowing club that has produced some really great rowers
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East Midlands Rowing
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On Stream
UK's rowing web hosting service; with UK clubs, news, resources
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Regatta
Online magazine, with details of UK regattas
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Henley Royal Regatta
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Henley Races
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Sculling UK
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RoWales
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Scottish Amateur Rowing Association
(SARA) promotes safe participation, by both men and women, in rowing and sculling in Scotland - at every level from novice to elite, from junior to veteran. Iinformation for Scottish rowers and for visitors/those interested in taking up the sport. News, events and results, club contacts, International Rowing
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Australia
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Queensland
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New South Wales
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Victoria
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Tasmania
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The King's Cup
Australia's premier rowing race history
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Canada
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Ontario Rowing Association
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Montreal Aviron 2001
rowing masters regatta.
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Rate48
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Roosendaalserv
(in Dutch) Everything about rowing in Roosendaal, includes links to all Dutch rowing sites
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Proteuszwaar
A site about heavyweight rowing at Proteus - a student rowing club at the University of Delft. In Dutch and English
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Irish Rowing Information
(unofficial site) with wide coverage of the local rowing scene
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NZRA
Although the mighty Waka, Tiwai, used traditional canoes for centuries back, the precursor to modern racing was probably broad beam, clinker-built whale boats and the first Rowing club (Canterbury) was formed around 1861 .......... read on, History
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New Zealand Rowing Association
Official site
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Rowing New Zealand
"65 clubs, 135 schools, seven universities and thousands of volunteers and supporters"; news, events, clubs
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University Rowing NZ
News, events calendar, history, University rowing links
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Auckland Rowing Association
Basic information
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New Zealand Secondary Schools Rowing
News, regatta, membership
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Westlake Boys High School Rowing
Rowing Faq with very helpful information about the sport
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Wellington Rowing Club
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North End
Canterbury
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North Shore Rowing Club
One of the oldest rowing clubs in NZ operating mainly from Lake Takapuna; events, regattas, coaching, crews, boats etc
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USA Rowing
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Masters Rowing (MRA)
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The Schuylkill Navy
The oldest amateur athletic governing body in the United States
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Steve Redgrave
Personal site with information about himself and the other coxless crews; links
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Ocean Rowing Society
The official site, based in London. Detailed story of ocean rows: history, archive, current events and projects. Statistics, guidelines, satellite tracking, charts, logs, photos. Eng/Rus. Daily update
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Row2K
Resources for open-water rowers, US based
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Atlantic Rowing Challenge 2001
The Ward Evans Atlantic Rowing Challenge, started from Playa San Juan in Tenerife on Sunday 07 October 2001
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Trans-Tasman Ocean Rowing Race
For be an annual four-person (three rowing) ocean race that starts at Sydney Harbour Bridge and finishes at the Auckland Harbour Bridge, March 2003
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Gig Racing UK
Cornish pilot gig racing.
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The St Ives Pilot Gig Club
History
History of Rowing
The first International governing body "F餩ration Internationale des Soci鴩s d'Aviron", otherwise known as FISA, was founded by representatives from France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Italy in Turin , in 1892 and International championships followed in 1893.
Europe
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United Kingdom
England
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Events
The Boat Race
The Boat Race is an annual event between the rowing clubs of Oxford and Cambridge held on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake, with 8 rowers and a cox, per team. The race is timed to run with the tide, though against the natural flow of the river.
North America
USA
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Organisational bodies
Organisational Bodies for Rowing in the USA
In the USA rowing became the first organized collegiate sport , complete with its own governing body. Today, men's collegiate rowing in the U.S. remains independent of the NCAA, while women's rowing became a NCAA sport in 1997. Pioneers of women's rowing in the USA formed the US National Women's Rowing Association, which in 1982 merged with the US National Association for Amateur Oarsmen to form the US Rowing Association
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