{"id":35854,"date":"2018-11-30T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2018-11-30T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T16:02:25","slug":"world-record-indoor-rowing-broken-grangetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/sport-health\/world-record-indoor-rowing-broken-grangetown","title":{"rendered":"World record for indoor rowing set in Grangetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Para-rower beat the world record in Welsh Indoor Rowing Championship held in Grangetown.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35924\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-35924 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/BenPritchardRowing-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Pritchard rowing in the Sudbury Regatta in the Summer of 2018\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35924 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/BenPritchardRowing-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Pritchard rowing in the Sudbury Regatta in the Summer of 2018\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> Ben Pritchard Rowing this summer at Sudbury Regatta Copyright Bill Hiskett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Benjamin Pritchard, a Para-rower from Swansea has beaten a world record for indoor rowing in Grangetown, Cardiff this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The para-rower raced 1000m in the PR1 adaptive rowing classification, in 3:46.5, beating the previous world record of 3:47.9 from Pascal Daniere in 2013.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin\u00a0was previously a GB triathlete before a crash on his bicycle during training left him in a wheelchair <span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">paralysed from the ribcage down<\/span>, he now represents Wales and GB for para-rowing.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He discovered adaptive rowing\u00a0during his rehabilitation, which allowed him to continue with sport, and became a member of the Team GB para-rowing development programme.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all the other sports I tried I would still be in the chair, and being new to the chair I didn\u2019t like it\u201d Benjamin said \u201cRowing allows me to get out of my chair and feel more free.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fantastic day of racing. We had a new WORLD RECORD for Ben Pritchard in the PR1 category 1000m. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WelshIRC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WelshIRC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bNfvPQp7vp\">pic.twitter.com\/bNfvPQp7vp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WelshIndoors (@WelshIndoors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WelshIndoors\/status\/1066395335587753985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Ben was nominated for Disability Wales Emerging Athlete of the Year, after representing GB in Italy at the International Regatta less than two years after his accident.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Welsh Indoor Rowing Championship occurred this weekend in Grangetown\u2019s Channel View Centre, which has been going since 1999.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0With<\/span>\u00a0hundreds of participants with ages ranging from 11 years old to over 70, proving that anyone has the ability to take up indoor rowing.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35946\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-35946 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Indoor-Rowing-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Person using rowing machine\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35946 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Indoor-Rowing-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Person using rowing machine\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Indoor Rowing uses rowing machines often seen at gyms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As well as the world record, many Championship\u00a0records were broken that day highlighting the ability of Welsh rowers.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ben Pritchard is not only good at indoor rowing, but he has won many Regattas on the water, such as the City of Oxford and Sudbury Regattas in 2018, both competing against friend and rowing rival\u00a0Kingsley Ijomah<\/p>\n<p>Team GB has been developing their para-rowing team, ahead of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2020, and are always looking for more para-rowing athletes with potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowing World Record was beaten in Grangetown, at the Welsh Indoor Rowing Championship, by Team GB para-rower. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":35924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[705],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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