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Article: Rowbotham is part of history

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August 19, 2008
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Great BRITAIN's rowing contingent at Shunyi Lake in Beijing have become the most successful Olympic rowing squad since 1908.

Two gold, two silver and two bronze medals mean Great Britain top the Olympic rowing regatta.

And included in that success was bronze medallist Steve Rowbotham.

Steve is the son of a former Torquay Boys' Grammar School pupil and has family dotted all over South Devon and the South Hams - including one of his uncles who is Torbay police Superintendent Chris Singer.

Now the Olympics are out of the way, Rowbotham will be hot- footing it down to Salcombe in September to get married to fiancee Eleanor Rowntree.

Rowbotham lives near Bristol, where dad Chris is in business, ...

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