Winning Olympic gold: My story by Paul Bennett
Great Britain's men's eight rowing team won gold in Rio to reclaim the Olympic title for the first time since 2000. Paul Bennett - a current world champion describes how it felt like to win Olympic gold in Rio. Read more
Road to Rio: the countdown begins!
The 2016 Rio Olympics are less than a year away, and British sports fans are hoping for a performance that beats Team GB’s record medal tally at London 2012. That’s never been achieved by a country directly after hosting the Games. And the pressure’s on us in the GB Rowing Team given that our sport is one of the nation’s strongest Olympic teams and kicked off the incredible “Super Saturday” at the 2012 Games. Read more
What has 150 years of data taught us?
Every year rowers get faster, records are broken, medals are won, but can this trajectory continue? Rowing as a sport lends itself well to data analysis and at the British Rowing Sports Science and Medicine Conference earlier this year I shared some insights the rowing community has gleaned from the performance and race data of the past 150 years. Read more
What do an elite rower and a leading data scientist have in common?
We recently met up with Paul Bennett, a member of the GB Rowing Team and current World Champion, and Laurie Miles, Head of Analytics for SAS UK & Ireland, who has been analyzing the team's data. They chatted about data, the life and mind of an elite sportsman, and uncovered some surprising things they have in common! Read more
How do you measure up against an Olympic athlete?
Intrigued to know how the average person compares to a gold medal winning Olympic athlete when it comes to things like height, body mass, resting heart rate, arm span, body fat etc.... Read more
Exploring athletic data down to the individual stroke
Since my opening blog post about our new partnership with British Rowing and the GB Rowing Team, I’ve had a deep dive into their data, and we’re now close to our first key milestone... Read more
Can analytics improve elite athletic teams?
When I started working at business analytics leader SAS, I had no idea I'd be helping the Great Britian Rowing Team plot their way to... Read more