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Great Race supports great cause

2 October, 2008
Cambridge University men's rowing eight recently took out the Harry Mahon Memorial Trophy at the Gallagher Great Race on the Waikato River in Hamilton, New Zealand.
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Gallagher make commitment to Great Race

15 September, 2008
The Gallagher Group have announced their continual support of the Gallagher Great Race and have signed a further three year sponsorship agreement.
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Cambridge win a real Great Race

7 September, 2008
They don't get any closer than the 2008 Gallagher Great Race.
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Waikato women win Great Race

7 September, 2008
Waikato University women's rowing crew have comfortably won The Gallagher Great Race while the men's team fell to Cambridge University.
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Injury forces Twigg out of Gallagher Great Race

6 September, 2008
One of Waikato University's trump cards for the women's event at the Gallagher Great Race - Emma Twigg - is out of the race on Sunday with a rib injury.
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Malaria halts training for Waikato cox

6 September, 2008
"Cant make it 2 training have malaria," As text message excuses go, Laura Breitenstein's one was impressive.
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Twaddle plans a last Great effort

6 September, 2008
Nathan Twaddle has yet to decide if his international rowing career will continue but he's sure on one aspect.
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Visitors share notes on how to beat locals

6 September, 2008
The visiting crews for this year's Great Race are determined to end the dominance of Waikato University and they're joining forces to do so.
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Cambridge crews to victory in indoor row challenge

5 September, 2008
Waikato Stadium saw action of a different sort last night with crews from the Gallagher Great Race competing on the indoor rowing machines in a pre-race warm up match.
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Take dad for a fun run this Saturday

4 September, 2008
A closed section along the Hamilton river path has caused the Arrow International Great Race Fun Run & Walk to change its route for this Saturday's event.
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Big test for heart-op rower

3 September, 2008
Shane O'Mara will put his heart into Sunday's Great Race on the Waikato River and hope it stands the test.
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Blue rowers in prostate cancer crusade

3 September, 2008
Some young Aussie rowers have been brought in to help raise awareness of prostate cancer.
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Rower pleads for return of jacket

2 September, 2008
Photos of the Beijing Olympics are lost after a visiting Cambridge University rower's digital camera and team blazer were taken during the The Great Race Ball.
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Rowers have a ball at Gallagher Great Race mega party

1 September, 2008
New Zealand Olympic rowers took time out from a busy post Beijing schedule to let their hair down at one of the country's biggest parties of the year.
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Young blades - and old - to battle it out in the Gallagher Great Race

21 August, 2008
The squads for the 2008 Great Race on Sunday September 7th have been announced with strength in depth in both the Waikato and Cambridge University crews, and a kiwi Olympian who just can't seem to get enough.
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Tough Olympic campaign will leave rowers ready for winning

14 August, 2008
A margin of five-hundredths of a second was all it took to see New Zealand rower Emma Twigg miss out on a place in the final of the women's single sculls at the Olympic Games in Beijing.
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