Silver medal joy for paralympic rower
Published: 00:00, 06 September 2007
Updated: 10:46, 06 September 2007
KENT-based paralympic rower Alastair McKean has won a silver medal at the World Championships in Munich.
McKean, from Canterbury, formed part of the mixed adaptive coxed four with the team forced to chase the early pace-makers from Germany and the USA through the first-half of the race.
They then hauled themselves up in the second half to take silver in a time of 3.36.19 behind Germany, who were roared home to victory by a large, local crowd.
Britain's Tom Aggar took gold in the arms-only single scull.
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