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Shelley Pearson has qualified for the rowing C final after finishing second in yesterday’s consolation semi-final at the Lagao Rodrigo de Freitas at the Olympic Games. Pearson finished the 2,000 metres women’s singles sculls race in a time of 8min 5....

Shelley Pearson has qualified for the C/D rowing final after finishing second in today’s semi-final at the Lagao Rodrigo de Freitas at the Olympic Games. Pearson finished the 2,000 metres women’s singles sculls race in a time of 8min 5.78sec and will...

Shelley Pearson hailed her performance in yesterday’s singles sculls quarter-finals at the Olympic Games as “the best race of her life”. It just was not quite good enough to secure her the top-three finish she needed to achieve her goal of reaching t...

Shelley Pearson missed out on qualifying for the singles sculls A/B semi-final after placing fourth in her quarter-final heat at the Olympic Games today. She needed a top-three finish to achieve her goal of a berth in the B final, finishing four tent...

Shelley Pearson said the choppy waters of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freita were the worst conditions she has experienced after her battling third-place finish in the women’s single sculls on Saturday. The 25-year-old opened Bermuda’s contribution to the Rio G...

Jim Butterfield felt “like a lamb to the slaughter” before his Olympic debut — but believes Shelley Pearson is ready for her Rio test after a far more varied rowing eduction. Butterfield is a close friend of Shelley’s father Kevin Pearson, a former B...

Shelley Pearson opened Bermuda’s contribution to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with a sterling third-place finish in the women’s single sculls this morning. The 25-year-old battled through the choppy waters of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freita in th...

Shelley Pearson said she was pleased with her performance at a World Cup event in Poland. The Bermuda rower finished third in the B final at the competition in Poznan at the weekend, the last major competition before the Olympic Games in August. Pear...

Shelley Pearson’s rocky road to the Rio Olympics is a true tale of triumph over adversity. Pearson will become the first Bermudian woman to compete in Olympic rowing when she takes to the water at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in the heart of Rio thi...

Shelley Pearson has described qualifying for the Olympic Games in Rio as a “mind-blowing” moment in her already decorated rowing career. Pearson became the fourth Bermudian athlete to reach the Rio Games after winning the Latin Olympic Continental Qu...

Shelley Pearson is just one finished race away from becoming the first Bermudian rower to qualify for the Olympics since Jim Butterfield in 1972. Yesterday at the FISA Americas Olympic Continental Qualification Regatta in Curauma, Chile, Pearson won...

Shelley Pearson is the latest Bermuda athlete to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio. Pearson became the regional champion today after winning the Latin American Olympic Continental Qualification Regatta in Curauma, Chile — her one and onl...