Hancock Prospecting and rower’s patron, Executive Chairman Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, warmly congratulate the 37 strong rowing team, selected on Sunday 30 June across nine boats to contest the Olympic rowing regatta at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in Paris.
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Read more“The nominees for the overall award are all deserved winners, but both Elijah and Kiera stand out by their performances under the pressure of international competition at the highest level. Bond University vice-chancellor Tim Brailsford congratulated all the Blues Award recipients and said it had been a tough task for the judges to select the individual winners given the sporting successes Bondies had enjoyed in 2022. “The celebration of our student athletes and their performances from last year has highlighted another stellar set of achievements both individually and collectively,” Brailsford said.
Read moreHenley Royal Regatta is undoubtedly the best-known regatta in the world and a highlight of both the summer sporting calendar and social season. Mrs Gina Rinehart AO supporting the Rowing community and the most exceptional achievements of athletes and coaches.
Read moreRowing Australia held their annual awards gala in Penrith, NSW, March 11th, to celebrate the successes of the rowers and their coaches. And what a year to celebrate after an amazing performance in Tokyo by our rowers! One of Australia’s rowers best Olympic performances in history. Hancock Prospecting and Mrs. Gina Rinehart send a heartfelt congratulations to all of this evening’s winners, and a big thank you to president Rob Scott.
Read moreYANQING: Monobob racer Bree Walker has piloted Australia to its best Olympic bobsled result, coming fifth in the singles on the sliding track in Yanqing and setting herself up for another medal tilt in the team event later this week. Walker went head-to-head with the three medallists from the US and Canada in Monday’s final heats, pulling out a final run of 1:05 to finish two seconds behind eventual gold medallist – Kaillie Humphries, the greatest women’s bobsledder of all time, and just 0.43 seconds behind bronze. “All I can say is never count an Aussie out,” Walker told Seven after the race. “I’m so chuffed.”
Read moreFour years after she was told to stay at home because she wasn’t good enough to go to the Winter Olympics, Bree Walker has produced the best performance in history by any Australian bobsleigh driver. Walker has reminded the selectors who snubbed her last time just what a massive blunder they made with a gutsy fightback that got her agonisingly close to snatching a medal in the inaugural women’s monobob at the Beijing Winter Olympics.Inspired by her teammate Jaclyn Narracott, who won a silver medal for Australia in skeleton on Sunday, Walker hasn’t given up hope of getting a medal herself when she competes in the two-woman bobsleigh on Friday and Saturday. “I wanted to be standing here at these Olympics, representing Australia being a competitor, not just a participant,” she said. “And I think I’ve kept that promise to myself. I’m over the moon.”
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