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	GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg230 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Hester Aletta Wessels Grobler [Parents].Hester married Carel Andries Gagiano.
		Jurgen Schoeman Van Rooyen Grobler [Parents].Jurgen married Salomina Johanna Coetzer.
		Gert Cornelius Grobler [Parents].Gert married Aletta Johanna Wilhelmina Paulina Brink.
	myweb.absa.co.za /johann.grobler/pafg230.htm (235 words)

	Guardian \| Grobler's reward
		Jurgen Grobler under no illusions when he took the job as coach at the Leander Club at Henley on 1 January 1991.
		The key components to Grobler's campaign were the vast experience of Redgrave and Pinsent, the exceptional power of his four athletes, and their resilience following their defeat at Lucerne two months ago where they finished a miserable fourth.
		Grobler is a bantam among the heavyweights, almost small enough in stature to be a cox.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4067448-105268,00.html (471 words)

	Observer \| Control freaks, bullies, tyrants - and winners
		Similar characters are in charge in many of the sports where the 271 competitors in Team GB have some of their best chances of medals, such as rowing, sailing and diving.
		Rowing has Jurgen Grobler, a German famous for replacing team members' traditional full English breakfasts with prunes and, more recently, shocked Britain's rowers by discarding two he considered unlikely to help win the men's coxless four event in which Sir Steve Redgrave and his teammates triumphed in 2000.
		Jurgen changed my training programme, gave me more gym work and was a key part of my success.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4993583-102283,00.html (1021 words)

	GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg184 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Jurgen Hanekom was born about 1688 in Cape, South Africa.
		Cornelis Floris Johannes Grobler [Parents].Cornelis married Aletta Susanna Petronella Kleinhans.
		Helena Johanna Grobler [Parents] was born on 4 Oct 1905.
	myweb.absa.co.za /johann.grobler/pafg184.htm (260 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Rowing: Forced to go with the new flow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Jurgen Grobler: the meeting was short and the decision was ruthless
		The meeting was short and the decision ruthlessly delivered: Jurgen would strengthen the coxless four by bringing in Matt Pinsent and I to join Josh West and Steve Williams.
		Jurgen based his decision on what was best for British rowing: the whole team are affected by priority order of boats and he felt the decision could not be delayed with only 170 days to the Olympics.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2004/02/24/socrac24.xml (936 words)

	Concept 2 -> Training -> Indoor Rowing Training Guide
		After being approached at the World Indoor Rowing Championship in Boston in 1990 by Concept 2 Ltd's Managing Director Ian Wilson, Jurgen Grobler moved from his native GDR to Britain in 1991 to be head coach at Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames.
		Jurgen is arguably the most successful rowing coach of all time with numerous Olympic and world championship medals to his name.
		He was recognised by the international rowing federation (FISA) with the award of "Coach of the Year" 2000 and was elected to the FISA executive committee and competitive rowing commission.
	www.concept2.co.uk /guide/guide.php?article=grobler_weights (858 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| GB coach defends switch
		Great Britain rowing coach Jurgen Grobler insists he is right to switch Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell from the pair to the four.
		While Pinsent and Cracknell had a definite chance of a medal in the pair, it remains to be seen whether Dunn and Garbett have enough time to mount a significant challenge.
		His decision was backed by Sir Steve Redgrave, but the five-time Olympic rowing gold medallist admitted if he had been in charge, Pinsent and Cracknell would still have been in the pair.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/low/other_sports/3520651.stm (509 words)

	British Rowing
		Their last 500 metres was the slowest of the six boats on the course, all of whom met 10 months ago in the final of the World Championships.
		All this was totally uncharacteristic of the crew who have watched every opponent and analysed every move and nuance since their formation in the spring of 1997.
		Grobler said that it has been a hard, tough period with Vienna, Henley and Lucerne regattas all offering the best opposition.
	www.british.rowing.org.uk /lucerne00sun.html (1046 words)

	The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Since Sydney Jürgen has continued to coach James and Matthew, this time in the pair to gold medal successes in 2001 — where they completed a unique double with a double gold in coxed and coxless pairs — and in 2002 when they lowered the World Record to 6.14 in a thrilling final.
		In 2003 they could not recapture this form and came in 4th, breaking their and Jurgen’s run of World Championship golds.
		Jurgen most recently coached the GB Team to Olympic Gold in the Athens 2004 Olympics.
	www.gordonpoole.com /speakers/JurgenGrobler.htm (355 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| Grobler leads Pinsent tributes
		British rowing coach Jurgen Grobler paid tribute to Matthew Pinsent after the four-time Olympic champion retired from the sport on Tuesday.
		Grobler, who was appointed the British men's team coach after the 1992 Olympics, insisted Pinsent had capitalised superbly on his physical attributes.
		And Grobler insisted that Pinsent was the major factor in Great Britain's coxless four victory in Athens.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/4054911.stm (558 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Athens Olympics - It's oar or nothing for Pinsent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		He is either genuinely unperturbed, very good at hiding emotions or simply so intensely focused on success that he doesn’t really care too much who gets trampled if it consolidates his place as a serious gold medal contender.
		Grobler was unmoved by the outburst and maintained that the switch offered Team GB the better chance of procuring the ultimate reward.
		To be honest, if Jurgen says he wants me to do trampoline, then that’s what I do.
	sport.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1137&id=908072004 (1835 words)

	Sport: Foreign coaches speak language of success Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Grobler, a doyen of rowing coaches, was handed his Coach of the Year trophy at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards by Redgrave.
		Strangely enough, when you consider all the foaming anger created by Sven Goran Eriksson's appointment as England's football coach, neither Grobler nor Fletcher at any stage of proceedings was asked to produce his passport.
		Perhaps the feeling was that their credentials had been examined hard enough in Penrith Lake at the Olympics and in the dying light in Pakistan.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20001212/ai_n14362242 (361 words)

	UK Sport - NEWS: Grobler adds Pinsent & Cracknell to four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Olympic champions Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell look set to defend their coxless four title in Athens after it was announced they will no longer train as a pair in the run up to the British trials in April.
		Jurgen Grobler, the Great Britain men’s coach, announced on Sunday that the 2002 coxless pair world champions will train in a four with Steve Williams and Josh West up to and including the trials, which will determine the crews for the World Cup series.
		Grobler said that his decision was determined by the recent 5km winter assessment and pairs trials, which saw Cracknell and Pinsent emerge as the top two athletes in the squad.
	www.uksport.gov.uk /template.asp?id=1717 (439 words)

	British International Rowing Office - Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Jurgen Grobler came to the UK in 1991 as Leander Club's Chief Coach from the former German Democratic Republic.
		Jurgen moulded them into one of the best pairs of all times and after Atlanta, presided over their move into the four which won gold in Sydney.
		In 2005 Jurgen is working with both the sweep squad and the emerging squad of young scullers and looking for gold for Britain once again at the Olypic Games in Beijing.
	www.bosonmedia.co.uk /ara/gbrowing/biographies/index.php?Action=2&id=109 (380 words)

	UKAN - Latest News
		Cycling coach Simon Jones was named Male Coach of the Year, while diving’s Lindsey Fraser took the female honours.
		Jurgen Grobler, arguably the most successful rowing coach of all time, won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
		Grobler has coached a British gold medal rowing crew at every Olympics since 1992.
	www.ukan.org.my /news/fullstory.asp?id=4016 (338 words)

	Regatta Online - News and Features
		Our own Chief Coach Jurgen Grobler worked as a men's and women's coach in the GDR from 1972 until 1990.
		Jurgen Grobler has worked as a High Performance Coach in Great Britain since 1991, for the past 6 years leading Britain's successful Men's Rowing Team.
		Recent speculation, whilst not to be treated lightly, is rumour and comment that has surfaced from time to time over recent months.
	www.regatta.rowing.org.uk /106-grobler.html (293 words)

	Rowing Service News
		I talk to James, who is half-excited, half-nervous at the idea of jumping back into a boat so suddenly for a big race, when the last time he held a sweep oar was rowing from the River and Rowing Museum to Leander Club before parties and bus tours to celebrate the Athens Olympic win.
		Anyway, I start drafting the piece, and leave messages for Jurgen Grobler and Mark Banks to ask them which boat James will be in, as he doesn't even know.
		Hence the 'phone-call from British chief coach Jurgen Grobler.
	www.rowingservice.com /crackers4Z-05.html (784 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Olympic Games for Britain
		He had given everything just as his crew had asked of him, just as Jurgen Grobler, his long-time mentor and head coach of the men's team, had demanded at the team meeting on the eve of battle.
		Through all of the build-up he had waited to hear Grobler's inspirational team talk.
		He waited in vain until Grobler pushed the boat out for the last time.
	newsfromrussia.com /science/2004/08/22/55541_.html (1016 words)

	Benchmark Sport
		The crew of; Pinsent, Coode, Cracknell and Williams looked down as they went into their final 10 strokes, but as their boat (named after the absent Alex Partridge) crossed the line they had won by 0.08 seconds.
		In the build up to the games preparations had not gone smoothly as injury and illness affected the crew forcing coach Jurgen Grobler to constantly swap the personnel.
		However unsettling it would have been, the focus was their when it mattered and the competition was beaten and those medals can’t be taken away.
	www.benchmarksport.com /news_0804_coxless4.asp (346 words)

	Irishrowing.com - Even Better than Offical
		British coach Jurgen Grobler said: "James and Matthew have been our top two athletes.
		Grobler, however, said the decision could yet be overturned after the British Trials on 13 and 14 April.
		Cracknell admitted it must have been a "tough decision for Jurgen".
	www.irishrowing.com /main.php?page_type=news&id=474&view_type=live&PHPSESSID=21bd6885a199c59b54611cdb7483e72d (197 words)

	Woking News & Mail Online - British Newspapers - Woking Newspapers - Surrey Newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The decision, before last weekend’s trials in Seville, by coach Jurgen Grobler, has shocked both men and has come about two months earlier than it might have done, with April earmarked as crunch time in naming the respective teams for Athens.
		The announcement by Grobler is not final but nobody is expecting it to be reversed after the April trials.
		He has to be careful not to throw fuel on the fire but inwardly he will be angered at the callousness of the decision by the German, who must appreciate the resentment he will have caused with the Olympics so close.
	www.woking.co.uk /sport/article/article_id=2430.html (933 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Other sports \| Coode keeps broken four on course
		Pinsent explained: "Our coach Jurgen Grobler gave us just 30 seconds to digest that news before he told us that Ed Coode would be taking his place in the boat for Athens." That information set up an emotional roller-coaster of a weekend for the British crew, where for once rowing seemed to take second place.
		Even yesterday morning, the crew were still feeling sympathy for Partridge, while at the same time desperately wondering what the Olympics might now hold for them.
		But it was to counter those kind of emotions that Grobler had no hesitation in picking Coode.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /moresports/story/0,10330,1254240,00.html (635 words)

	Regatta Online - World Cup
		This crew was unfairly dubbed 'Dad's Army' by some in the press box, but their performance was excellent while being a good measure of the standard of opposition on hand for the world champions.
		Jurgen Grobler, coach of the No 1 four, was deadpan and uncommunicative about his plans for the future of Ed Coode and Tim Foster.
		It is virtually certain that Coode will keep the No 3 seat for the Cup's second round in Vienna in the hope that this four will be put to a much more severe test than they received in Hazewinkel.
	www.regatta.rowing.org.uk /119-hazewink3.html (747 words)

	UK Sport - NEWS: UK Sport unveils sport’s true heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Jurgen Grobler and Frank Dick are the first inductees for Support of Achievement.
		Whilst it is the sportsmen and women that grab the headlines, the role of the coach cannot be underestimated.
		In a period of just ten years, Grobler has been not only the coach behind Britain's most successful Olympian, Sir Steve Redgrave, but also chief coach to the British men's rowing squad which has achieved unprecedented Olympic and World Championship honours during his tenure.
	www.uksport.gov.uk /template.asp?id=739 (770 words)

	Observer \| Tough glory
		But most dramatic and controversial was the decision made by the Great Britain head coach, Jurgen Grobler, in February.
		A question about any friction that occurred after Grobler's decision is greeted with another 'Hmm'.
		Toby came to see me at one point and said, "Did you know anything about this before it happened?" And I said, "No." And that was the honest truth.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5094648-102283,00.html (1520 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Sir Steve Redgrave Sunday Grandstand interview
		At the moment they're in their training programme which everyone in the squad is trying to do.
		Yes, the final decision is Jurgen's, but their destiny is very much in their own hands."
		They will make the decision between the three of them, with Jurgen, Matthew and James, about what's right for them.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/01_january/17/grandstand_redgrave.shtml (655 words)

	BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Pinsent paid credit to former team-mate Alex Partridge, who withdrew with a punctured lung, and coach Jurgen Grobler when he picked up the award.
		The victory, cheered on by thousands of British supporters from the stands at the rowing lake, was a dream ending for the crew after a difficult season marred by injury.
		"We were a team of six and that eight one-hundreths of a second was down to Jurgen," he said.
	www.sportznewz.com /story/8473.html (1060 words)

	British International Rowing Office: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Camelot–sponsored quartet of Steve Williams, Peter Reed, Alex Partridge and Andy Hodge have already won the World Cup overall title after earlier wins at Eton and Munich, giving them the latitude to experiment with their style this morning in the heats.
		Today they were comfortable leaders throughout their heat to qualify for tomorrow's semi–finals but it was a win with a slight difference.
		Coach Jurgen Grobler had asked them to row with technique and harmony in the boat rather than racing flat out.
	www.bosonmedia.co.uk /ara/gbrowing/news/?Action=8&id=41&home=1 (926 words)

	Retirement was such a tough decision EXCLUSIVE Motivation no longer there for the British oarsman who won two Olympic ...
		I told my (ex) coach, Jurgen Grobler, to add a few extra training sessions to the daily programme as the body can clearly take it.
		Initially, Jurgen tried to persuade me to carry on but could see that my mind was made up.
		I'd like to thank everybody I raced with; Jurgen for getting the best out of us all while never ducking out of a tough decision; and my family, especially my parents, who bought tickets to three Olympics before I had even made it to the start line.
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/-retirement-such-tough-decision-exclusive-motivation-no-longer-/2006/02/16/1378400.htm (1383 words)

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