{"id":9809,"date":"2023-05-28T13:18:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T13:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/european-rowing-championships-erin-kennedy-wins-gold-a-year-after-cancer-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T13:18:40","slug":"european-rowing-championships-erin-kennedy-wins-gold-a-year-after-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/european-rowing-championships-erin-kennedy-wins-gold-a-year-after-cancer-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"European Rowing Championships: Erin Kennedy wins gold a year after cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$image-0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0.0\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--image\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$image-0.1\">Kennedy (left) won European gold in 2022 three months after her cancer diagnosis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table class=\"gs-o-table story-body__table\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1\">\n<thead class=\"gs-o-table__head gel-brevier \" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.0\">\n<tr class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.0.$row-0\"\/><\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"gel-long-primer \" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1\">\n<tr class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-0\">\n<td class=\"gs-o-table__cell\" colspan=\"1\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-0.$td-0\"><strong data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-0.$td-0.0:0\">Venue:<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-0.$td-0.0:1\"> Bled, Slovenia <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-0.$td-0.0:2\">Date:<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-0.$td-0.0:3\"> 25-28 May<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-1\">\n<td class=\"gs-o-table__cell\" colspan=\"1\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-1.$td-0\"><strong data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-1.$td-0.0:0\">Coverage:<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$table-1.1.$row-1.$td-0.0:1\"> Watch Saturday and Sunday&#8217;s finals on demand via BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\"><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\">Coxswain Erin Kennedy shed tears on the podium after helping Britain&#8217;s PR3 mixed coxed four win gold at the European Championships &#8211; a year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">She helped her crew defend their title with a commanding victory in Slovenia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been overwhelming and emotional &#8211; I really didn&#8217;t know if I would make it back,&#8221; said Kennedy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">&#8220;So to be here is a massive win, but to then go and actually win is just sort of the cherry on top really.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">The crew of Francesca Allen, Giedre Rakauskaite, Morgan Fice-Noyes and Edward Fuller finished almost five seconds ahead of silver medallists Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">Britain won five medals on Saturday in the opening day of finals on Lake Bled and went on to claim another five on Sunday, including golds for the men&#8217;s four and PR2 mixed double sculls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".ygsevbz3b4.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">There were also silver medals for the women&#8217;s eight and men&#8217;s pair of Oliver Wynne-Griffith and Thomas George, who finished just one tenth of a second behind Switzerland in a thrilling finish.  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rowing\/65737965\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy (left) won European gold in 2022 three months after her cancer diagnosis Venue: Bled, Slovenia Date: 25-28 May Coverage: Watch Saturday and Sunday&#8217;s finals on demand via BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website Coxswain Erin Kennedy shed tears on the podium after helping Britain&#8217;s PR3 mixed coxed four win gold at the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}