rowing

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Members of the nearby South End Rowing Club, home of many Bay swimmers, are fascinated with Chonkers and many have popped over to Pier 39 to check him out, said Vanessa Marlin, the club’s president.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

The deadline for Cambridge Rowing to appeal is 3 March.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Cambridge Rowing applied to register its trademark – a shield with a rower on it and the words "Cambridge Rowing" underneath – in January 2022.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

According to World Rowing, the earliest representation of a rowing boat was found in Finland and dated back to 5,800BC, while the oar was "considered to be the most important invention before the wheel".

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Rowing is, in a number of ways, a sport of fundamental paradoxes.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown