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Posted: June 14, 2016

A host of Scottish rowers will continue their preparations for Rio 2016 this weekend by representing the GB Rowing Team at the World Cup in Poznan, Poland - the last international test before the Olympic Games.

Posted: May 4, 2016

Are you ready for Rio?

That’s the question Scottish Rowing is asking its affiliated clubs in order to maximise the interest in rowing around this summer’s Rio Games and get more people on the water.

Posted: May 4, 2016

Performances are on the rise at University of Stirling Rowing Club which is enjoying its best season in years.

Posted: May 3, 2016

Newly formed Eastern Amateur, the first coastal rowing club to sign up to Scottish Rowing’s Project Rio campaign, is aiming to increase awareness for the sport and get more people on the water.

Posted May 2, 2016

Gordon Day MBE

Gordon John Day MBE, who has died peacefully at 84, was a major figure in the sport of rowing in Scotland, first as an international performer - he represented Scotland at the 1958 Empire Games. He then became a national umpire, international team manager and significant administrator.

Read more: Gordon Day MBE 1932-2016

Posted: May 3, 2016

George Heriot’s School’s rowing club is going from strength to strength since it appointed Head Coach James Davidson last August.

Posted: April 28, 2016

Inverness Rowing Club is the newest club to sign up to Project Rio as it stays on course to recruit more members and increase awareness for the sport in general.

Posted: April 27, 2016

There are many ways to benefit from Scottish Rowing’s Project Rio campaign which aims to capitalise on rowing interest generated by this summer’s Olympic Games.

Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University is planning to use the campaign’s promotional and coaching resources to recruit more students when the term resumes in September.

Posted: April 25, 2016

Dundee University’s burgeoning boat club is joining Scottish Rowing’s Project Rio campaign to further boost its membership numbers.

Posted: 23 April, 2016

The London 2012 Olympics had a profound effect on numbers of people taking up rowing.

So large was the flood of interest at Stirling Rowing Club that it only recently worked through the waiting list it accrued four years ago.

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SCOTTISH ROWERS SET FOR LAST INTERNATIONAL TEST AHEAD OF RIO 2016

Nineteen Scottish rowing clubs sign up to Project Rio to get ready for a surge of interest around this summer’s Olympic Games

University looking to add more members through Project Rio

Eastern Amateur Coastal Rowing Club on board for Project Rio

Gordon Day MBE 1932-2016

George Heriot’s plans to target younger age groups after signing up to Project Rio

Inverness expects ‘uplift of interest’ as it signs up to Project Rio

Heriot-Watt Boat Club aims to add more rowing members through Project Rio

Dundee University Boat Club looking to push membership to 100 after joining Project Rio

Stirling Rowing Club better prepared for Olympics second time around

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