Thursday 19 June 2008

Sportsnight

In the Pre-Paralympic Regatta in Poznan, Poland, Great Britian won two Golds - reigning world champion Tom Aggar in the single scull and the mixed adaptive coxed four. There was a silver medal for Karen Cromie and James Roberts in the mixed adaptive double scull.

British flat water canoeist Tim Brabants won a bronze medal at the World Cup event in Hungary.

British wrestling was upbeat about its chances in the 2012 Olympics, following the GB Cup in Sheffield. Nine medals were won against a world class field of seventy athletes from many strong wrestling nations. Krasimir Krastanov won gold, while silver medals found their way to Leon Rattigan and Olga Buktevych. The six bronze medallists were Scott Gregory, Oleksander Madyarchyk, Sergei Latyshev, David Sweeney, Oleg Druzhynets, and Chinu Chinu. With no wrestlers in this years Olympics, Team GB see this new event as a building block to London 2012. Full story
here.



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