The British Rowing Indoor Championships return for the first time since 2019 following a series of virtual competitions during the global pandemic. 1500 competitors will descend on the NEC in Birmingham this weekend to compete across 150 categories, more than double the number of athletes who raced the 2021 virtual indoor rowing championships. For the first time

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Roger Stainforth’s first 2000m race was December 2004 at the NIA, Birmingham. He came ninth and managed a time of 7:26.6. Thereafter, he entered British, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh indoor rowing competitions as well as European and World championships in Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, and France.While Stainforth is unable to compete at at this

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Graham Benton started on the indoor rowing machine at his local gym in 2002. Since then he has won the British Championships 16 times (including the Open six times), World Championships five times (Open once) and European Championships twice. He rows for the indoor rowing team called Mad Team IRC. They are one of the

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They say a day is a long time in politics, it’s even longer when your going up and down on a rowing machine non-stop.  On January 1st this year Julien Tavener of Go Row Indoor Club, Bristol Ariel started a challenge to raise money for a new rowing initiative, EasyRow, with the aim of getting more

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Join British Rowing and its partner application EXR for a free online indoor rowing session in Henley! This event is held just one day after the British Rowing Indoor Championships in Birmingham and invites the global rowing community to train together on EXR’s virtual waters. During the 90-minute group indoor rowing session, you get to row

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