{"id":6878,"date":"2012-07-02T23:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2012-07-02T23:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:39:58","slug":"abingdon-triumphant-radley-made-them-work-for-every-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6878","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Triumphant &#8211; Radley made them work for every inch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon beat Radley &#8211; by 3\/4 length &#8211; to win the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley. Abingdon also won this prestigous cup in 2002 &amp; 2011.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12070201.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nBen Rodford took this picture of the Abingdon Crew on way to the start.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12070202.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe second picture shows the winning Abingdon Crew.<\/p>\n<p>The Abingdon boat had beaten the Australian and US national champions as well as Latymer Upper School and St Peter\u2019s School to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>This win, together with victories at the Schools\u2019 Head of the River and the National Schools\u2019 Championship Eights earlier in the year, secures the three major rowing titles for Abingdon this season.  Winning the triple is a rare feat and has only been achieved once before in the School\u2019s history in 2002. <\/p>\n<p>Athol Hundermark, the Abingdon coach said, <em>\u201cThe Henley win is the culmination of a fantastic year for the crew who have performed extremely well under pressure. Radley made us work for every inch&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to both Abingdon and Radley. Both can be seen rowing near us on the River Thames, just a few miles downstream from Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon beat Radley &#8211; by 3\/4 length &#8211; to win the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley. Abingdon also won this prestigous cup in 2002 &amp; 2011. Ben Rodford took this picture of the Abingdon Crew on way to the start. The second picture shows the winning Abingdon Crew. The Abingdon boat had beaten the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}