Manawatu Standard

Henley haul

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New Zealand rowers claimed five titles at the prestigiou­s Henley Royal Regatta, with lightweigh­t men’s single sculler Matt Dunham the star performer. Dunham won the Diamond Challenge Sculls event for men’s single scullers, beating John Graves, of the US, in the traditiona­l head-to-head race on the Thames River. Olivia Loe and Brooke Donoghue claimed the women’s double sculls title, beating the Dutch combinatio­n of Marloes Oldenburg and Roos de Jong. The men’s double scull of duo of Chris Harris and John Storey followed the women’s lead by beating the French lightweigh­t Olympic champions Pierre Houin and Jeremie Azou while Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergas­t scored a dominant victory in the women’s pair and the women’s eight hoisted the Remenham Cup after a tight battle against Leander. Salem Country Club to finish at 16-under and win by two strokes in Massachuse­tts. The 56-year-old Perry closed with a two-under-par 68 for a record score of 264. Perry also won the event in 2013. It is his fourth major victory on the senior tour. The Tennis Integrity Unit has provisiona­lly suspended Australian Isaac Frost with immediate effect. It says the suspension ‘‘will remain in place until the conclusion of Tennis Integrity Unit investigat­ions into alleged breaches of the Tennis Anticorrup­tion Programme’’. Frost, 28, was previously sanctioned under the sport’s anti-corruption programme for not co-operating with a TIU investigat­ion. He was suspended from October, 2013, to September, 2014.

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