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Shelley Pearson is just one finished race away from becoming the first Bermudian rower to qualify for the Olympics since Jim Butterfield in 1972. Yesterday at the FISA Americas Olympic Continental Qualification Regatta in Curauma, Chile, Pearson won...

Shelley Pearson is the latest Bermuda athlete to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio. Pearson became the regional champion today after winning the Latin American Olympic Continental Qualification Regatta in Curauma, Chile — her one and onl...

Shelley Pearson has reached today’s semi-finals of her Olympic rowing qualifiers in Curauma, Chile, after placing second in her heat at the Latin American Continental Qualification Regatta. The top two finishers from each heat yesterday advanced to ...

Shelley Pearson flies to Chile tomorrow for her one and only shot at qualifying for the Olympic Games in August. Pearson, who is hoping to become the first Bermuda rower to compete at the Games since Jim Butterfield in Munich in 1972, will compete at...

Bermuda’s rowers had three top ten finishes at the Crash-B World Indoor Rowing Championships in Boston on Sunday. Six members of the Bermuda Rowing Association travelled to the US on the weekend to compete in 2,000 metre sprint races, with Ann Perin...

It has been more than 40 years since Bermuda was represented in rowing at the Olympics, Shelley Pearson wants to change all that. The Oxford University student has dreamed of competing on the world stage ever since she took up the sport at school, an...

Michael Swain of Bermuda won a silver medal in the 50 to 60 age group at the Head of the Occoquan rowing event in Virginia last weekend when he teamed up with Col Tom Riddle of the United States to repeat their feat of two years ago in the men’s doub...

No Bermudian athlete can have performed in front of an audience such as this, certainly not in terms of live spectators. As Shelley Pearson and her Oxford University crewmates powered their way down the Thames on a historic day for the Newton Women’...

When Shelley Pearson takes to the Tideway on the River Thames tomorrow for the Newton Women’s Boat Race, along with eight team-mates representing Oxford University, it is inevitable that somewhere along the course of, say, 20 minutes of sweat and gri...

Bermudian Shelley Pearson and her Oxford University crewmates survived a scare yesterday in their preparation for next week’s BNY Mellon Boat Races when they were overcome by waves while at practice and had to be rescued. The recovery action was perf...

Bermudian Shelley Pearson has become part of British sporting history having earned a place on the Oxford University team for the Newton Women’s Boat Race. The 23-year-old, who is the daughter of Bermuda Half-Marathon Derby legend Kevin Pearson, will...

Bermuda rower Michael Swain and his US partner Tom Riddle have won the silver medal in the long distance event in an international regatta in Virginia. The two Bermuda Rowing Association members competed over the 5,000 metre course on the Occoquan R...