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Purchase eyeing return and gold at Rio

Zac Purchase insists he will only return to the water in order to win gold at Rio 2016 as the rower contemplates a comeback.

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Triggs Hodge looks for positives after mixed Essen displays

Olympic champion Andrew Triggs Hodge stroked Great Britain's men's eight to victory at rowing's Essen International - but he conceded there was ...

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Copeland itching for return to action

Katherine Copeland insists that while she might be out of sight rowing is not out of her mind with the London 2012 Olympic gold medallist alread...

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Memory of London 2012 still fresh in Purchase's mind

Rower Zac Purchase insists he is doing his upmost to get over the disappointment of missing out on gold at London 2012.

The 27-year-old h...

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Gold-medal winning rowers prepare for Eton Dorney return

Three of Team GB’s London 2012 gold-medal winning rowers will prepare for next month’s World Cup event at Eton Dorney by competing at the 97th I...

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Biography

Acer Nethercott was selected as cox of the men's eight for the Beijing 2008Olympic Games and won a silver medal. Nethercott has coxed the Great Britain eight for the past three seasons, and won bronze at the 2007 World Rowing Championships in Munich. In the 2008 World Cup series, he coxed the eight to second and third place. Originally, from Harlow in Essex, Nethercott went to school at Mark Hall Comprehensive and then Broxbourne School. He joined Oxford University Boat Club after starting at Oxford and was the Oxford women's Blue Boat cox in 2000 before coxing Isis in 2002 and then moving up to the winning Blue Boat in 2003. He went on to cox the Blue Boat in 2004 and again in 2005 when Oxford avenged their previous year's defeat to Cambridge. Nethercott gained his B.Phil in 2003 and his D.Phil in Philosophy last year when he spent some time studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.