Slovenia’s Iztok Cop led the field for the fifth Italian Sculling Challenge, the Memorial Don Angelo Villa, in snow-covered conditions.

Today is International Women’s Day. This celebrates the achievements of women past, present and future. It has been celebrated since the early 1900s and some countries mark it with a national holiday.

The London 2012 Paralympic Games will be the second time that adaptive rowers will have raced at the Paralympics and the criteria for qualifying for the most prestigious event in adaptive rowing have just been confirmed.