Olympic Regattas

Stamp GBR 2012 Aug. 5th - OG London - M4- gold medal for Alex Gregory, Tom James, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge (GBR)

       MI 3302

       SC 3055

       SG 3350

       YV 3700

       SG 3350a
Stamp GBR 2012 Jan. 12th OG London (self-adhesive postage label) with small red Olympic pictogram No. 13
Stamp GBR 2012 Sept. 4th - Paralympic Games London - LTAMix4+ gold medal for P. Relph, N. Riches, J. Roe & D. Smith, cox L. van den Broecke (GBR)

      MI 3336

      SC 3086

      SG 3381
Stamp GBR 2012 UNIVERSAL MAIL UK °Celebration of Sport° OG London (self-adhesive)
Stamp GBR SCOTLAND EYNHALLOW HOLY ISLAND 1984 (unauthorized) - OG Los Angeles 1984

Depicted is the M8+ crew of New Zealand, gold medal winner OG Munich 1972

perforated

imperforated
Stamp GBR-IOM 2004 July 1st - GBR M4- crew after their gold medal win at OG Sydney 2000

        MI 1142

        SC 1049

        YV 1171

Depicted is the M8+ crew of New Zealand, gold medal winner OG Munich 1972
perforated
imperforated

SC 1475

The image in the lower left corner

(with the 8+ on the right margin)

depicts the MS whereas the picture

in the lower right corner (with the

8+ on the left margin) shows a

pane from the Special Collector's Book

TANG Bin, JIN Ziwei, XI Aihua & ZHANG Yangyang (CHN)

Rob Waddell won the M1X B-final at

OG Atlanta 1996 (= 7th place),

became M1X World champion in 1998,

defended his title in 1999 and crowned

his career with the M1X gold medal win

at OG Sydney 2000.

Silken Laumann gained the W2X bronze medal

at OG Los Angeles 1984 together with her sister

Danielle. She won the W1X gold medal in 1991

and was the gold medal favourite for OG Barcelona

1992 when ten weeks prior to the Games her right

leg was shattered by an accident in the warm-up area

of regatta Essen (GER). A M4- crew had rammed into

her shell. Told that she would never row again and

after five operations she walked with a cane to her

boat and won the W1X bronze medal.

She finished her career with the W1X silver medal at

OG Atlanta 1996.

FISA introduced traffic rules for the warm-up areas

of regattas after the 1992 incident.

Imperforated proofs are very rare (about 10 existing)

GDR boycotted the Olympic Games 1984 and the stamp on the left was never released. The image was used for the stamp on the right (OG Seoul 1988).
The most expensive rowing stamp in the world - less than ten are known. MI III	1988

Stamp GDR 1988 Aug. 9th - OG Seoul

       MI 3186

       SC 2693

       SG E 2889

       YV 2799
Stamp GEQ (unauthorized) depicting Zag Purchase & Mark Hunter (GBR), LM2X gold medal winners OG Beijing 2008

This LM2X pair also won the silver medal

at OG London 2012
Stamp GEQ 1972 Aug. 17th SS - OG Munich (pictogram behind the runner's left leg)

MI SS 18

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