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	Business Day - News Worth Knowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		SOUTH African Olympians Donovan Cech and Ramon Di Clemente won their semifinal in the heavyweight pairs division of the world rowing championships in Japan yesterday morning and clocked the second-fastest time over 2000m with their now-renowned sprint in the last quarter of the race.
		Di Clemente said the race had gone according to plan: “It was a good execution of our plan,” he said.
		The famous and formidable UK pair of Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknel (who now row in a four since Cech and Di Clemente knocked them out of the medals before the Athens Olympics) are the current world heavyweight pair record-holders with a time of six minutes and 14,27 seconds.
	www.businessday.co.za /articles/sports.aspx?ID=BD4A87414 (465 words)

	Olympic Results
		Di Clemente said after the finish, "Don had lower back problems during the season which made the season hard.
		The official jury decision excluded the Canadian crew from the event for interference and di Clemente and Cech move on to the final.
		This year as the sole rowing representatives for their country Cech and di Clemente are after gold.
	www.rowsa.co.za /regattas/abroad/2004athens.html (1600 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hoping for calm weather: Ramon di Clemente, left, and Donovan Cech, the leading SA rowers who will be competing in the pairs at the Olympics.
		He and Di Clemente remember the Olympic canoeing final in Sydney in 2000, when a heavy wind wrecked the hopes of medal contender Ruth Nortje.
		Sportsmad Di Clemente, 28, is a builder and project manager at heart, renovating his own house.
	www.suntimes.co.za /2004/02/29/sport/sport/sport05.asp (677 words)

	SA Rowing pair dominate
		Donovan Cech, left, and Ramon di Clemente win their Men's Pairs heat at the 2004 Olympics Games at the Schinias Rowing & Canoeing Center in Schinias, Greece.
		Athens - South Africa's Donovan Cech and Ramon di Clemente completely dominated the second heat of the Men's 2000m Rowing Pairs on Saturday.
		In the final 500m Cech and di Clemente turned on the power to finish in 6:57,06 over four seconds ahead of Croatia, giving them the third fastest time of the day behind New Zealand and Australia.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-1652-1653_1573066,00.html (518 words)

	Conference Speakers International
		Ramon Paolo Di Clemente was educated at Saint Benedicts College and attended Wits Technikon.
		Ramon represented SA as a Junior U/19 and every year since 1993 to date.
		His rowing achievements are too numerous to mention here but has raced in the World Rowing Championships in many countries, both here and overseas with consistent placings.
	home.intekom.com /conferencespeakers/speakers/ramondonovan.htm (174 words)

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		LONDON -- South Africa's champion heavyweight coxless pair Donovan Cech and Ramon Di Clemente led for the first 750 metres in the final at the Henley Royal Regatta yesterday, but in the end Pinsent got his 13th Henley medal by only half a boat length.
		Cech and Clemente were tipped to give the world champions stiff competition at the final when they went oar to oar with the world's fastest coxless heavyweight pair, Pinsent and Cracknell.
		There was drama on the water when the SA pair were accidentally rammed by an Australian quad boat during warm-ups.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2002/07/08/sport/BROW.HTM (129 words)

	SA's first rowing Olympic medal - SouthAfrica.info
		While Donovan Cech and Ramon Di Clemente won South Africa's first rowing Olympic medal on the weekend, taking third in the 2 000m pairs, swimmer Roland Schoeman captured his third medal of the Games, bronze in the 50m freestyle, making him one of the most successful South Africans in Olympic history.
		Schoeman went into the semi-finals of the freestyle sprint having recorded the fastest time in the semi-finals of 21.99.
		So great was the effort the two men put in that Cech, after crawling out of his boat after the race, lay on the pier, retching, 20 minutes after the race.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/athens2004-update4.htm (783 words)

	Dispatch Online - Your premier Eastern Cape news site
		Di Clemente and Cech who will contest the men's pairs event over 2 000m at the Athens Olympic Games later this year, are confident that they will be bringing an Olympic medal back home.
		Cech, who turned 30 yesterday, started rowing at school in 1995, while Di Clemente, 29 yesterday, only started rowing six years ago at university level.
		Some 64 finals in different classes were rowed this weekend by men's and women's teams from around the country but more than anything the competition served as an Olympic warm up for Di Clemente and Cech.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2004/05/03/Sport/aoly.html (320 words)

	SABCnews.com - sport/athletics
		Donovan Cech and Ramon di Clemente, South African rowers who compete in the lightweight coxless pairs division, are considered among the best rowers in the world and are definite medal contenders in next year's Olympics.
		However, they first have to qualify at a tough regatta in Milan at the end of the month and strength and conditioning exercises have been added to Ramon and Donavon's training programmes.
		Di Clemente said: "It's something different, it's also giving us the edge mentally so we happy to go this route and find something new." Cech said: "Strength is always an issue especially in endurance racing.
	www.sabcnews.com /sport/athletics/0,2172,63367,00.html (221 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| olympics \| news Rowing pair lead SA charge
		South Africa's Donovan Cech and Ramon di Clemente completely dominated the second heat of the men's 2 000 metre rowing pairs on Saturday.
		At the 1 000 metre mark the the South Africans and the Croatians were over five seconds clear of USA and Czechoslovakia.
		In the final 500 metres Cech and di Clemente turned on the power to finish in 6:57.06, over four seconds ahead of Croatia, giving them the third fastest time of the day behind New Zealand and Australia.
	sport.iafrica.com /olympics/news/341240.htm (698 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today Mandela congratulates Olympians
		The statuesque Mandela was almost dwarfed by the towering swimmers Ryk Neethling and Roland Schoeman, high jumper Hestrie Cloete, rowers Donovan Cech and Ramon di Clemente, and runner Mbulaeni Mulaudzi.
		Cloete won a silver medal in a nail biting high jump final while Mulaudzi had the country screaming as he sped towards a silver in the men's 800 metre track event.
		Cech and Di Clemente joked "we are the rowers" as they had their photos taken with Mandela.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/350174.htm (368 words)

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		This leaves last year’s bronze medallists Ramon Di Clemente and Donovan Cech of South Africa to open their international season as the favourites.
		World bronze medallists Ramon Di Clemente and Donovan Cech of South Africa have been a partnership since the last Olympic Games and today they experimented with a new Filippe boat as they work towards perfection for the Athens Olympics.
		Ramon Di Clemente and Donovan Cech of South Africa are the only pair to win a medal every year at the World Championships since 2000 and today they established leadership in the second semi-final.
	www.rowsa.co.za /regattas/abroad/2004WorldCup.html (1634 words)

	Tomkins, Ginn race into final - Athens Olympics 2004 - ABC Sport.
		The Canadian pair of Dave Calder and Chris Jarvis were initially disqualified but after an appeal, the sport's governing body FISA reinstated the crew to race in the B final.
		South Africa's Donovan Cech and Ramon Di Clemente, favourites for a medal, will now contest the A final after initially finishing fourth.
		In the men's coxless fours, world champions Canada won the other heat in a time of five minutes 50.68 seconds, a quarter of a second slower than the British.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200408/s1179874.htm (346 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Two South Africans will medals
		South African rowing champions Donovan Cech and Ramon Di Clemente topped their Olympic qualifying victory in the semifinal last week by taking a medal in the final on Saturday.
		Don and Ramon have beaten the Australians and the Croatians in various regattas and those Olympic medals are in their sites.
		You forget, when you're living in the city, just how different things are in the world outside the urban boundaries that hem us in.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/266856.htm (372 words)

	Venues
		This year we asked South Africa's reigning coxless pair champions Donovan Cech (Bramley) and Ramon Di Clemente (Fairwood) what they would plan for a fantasy date, loaded with romance...
		Ramon Di Clemente, 27, 6' 4", birthday May 2, 1975.
		Ramon's father came to SA from Rome, Italy in his early 30's (which explains Ramon's deep love of pasta!)
	www.rowsa.co.za /interest/valentines.html (771 words)

	World Rowing - Official Website - News
		Leading the way, South Africa’s lightweight men’s four of Bruce Turvey, Lawrence Ndlovu, Roderick MacDonald and Tony Paladin won both the men’s four and lightweight men’s four over Canada.
		South Africa’s flagship crew of Ramon Di Clemente and Donovan Cech convincingly won the men’s pair over England.
		Di Clemente and Cech have consistently been in the medals in this event internationally since 2001.
	www.worldrowing.com /display/modules/news/dspNews.php?newid=323998&pageid=24 (319 words)

	Ginn and Tomkins tumble as British pair snatch revenge win - smh.com.au
		Pinsent and Cracknell surged away as expected and opened a strong lead while the Australians battled to make their way into the cluster of boats behind Cracknell and Pinsent.
		With 200m to go, it appeared Tomkins and Ginn would overtake the Croatian brothers Sinisa and Niksa Skelin and South Africa's Ramon Di Clemente and Donovan Cech for silver.
		But the other crews proved too strong and the Croatians edged Ginn and Tomkins into fourth place by 0.05 of a second.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/23/1032055037652.html (487 words)

	row2k News: Canada Advances Four Boats to Munich Finals
		Romina Stefancic of Victoria, B.C. and Heather Mandoli of Kelowna, B.C., also rowing in the women's pair event, do not advance to the A final after finishing sixth in their semi today.
		The men's pair of Malcolm Howard of Victoria, B.C. and Kevin Light of Sidney, B.C. finished just over a second behind Ramon Di Clemente and Donovan Cech - the Olympic bronze medallists and 2005 silver medallists from South Africa.
		Howard was fourth in the pair at last year's Worlds with partner Chris Jarvis.
	row2k.com /news/news.cfm?ID=23740 (434 words)

	row2k News: 2005 World Rowing Championships - Gifu, Japan
		Australia, who took gold in Athens have replaced the legendary Ginn and Tomkins pair and come back with Christian Ryan and Karsten Fosterling.
		They will be up against Athens silver medallists, Croatia's Skelin brothers, Athens bronze medallists Donovan Cech and Ramon Di Clemente of South Africa and 4th place in Athens Nathan Twaddle and George Bridgewater of New Zealand.
		These are the first World Rowing Championships since the International Paralympic Committee announced the inclusion of adaptive rowing in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.
	www.row2k.com /news/news.cfm?ID=19162 (619 words)

	Rowing Service News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Results of the Split Sprint were wins for Iztok Cop (1x) and Ramon Di Clemente/Donovan Cech (2-).
		Announcement that the Northumbrian Water Boat Race (UK) will be on 16th May 2004, raced with the tide.
		Added to the singles are four pairs: Di Clemente/Cech (RSA), Lari/De Vita (ITA), Skelin/Skelin (CRO) and Boraska/Vucicic (from CRO M8+).
	www.rowingservice.com /archivesep03.html (494 words)

	Rowing: Evers-Swindell twins win 3rd straight world title Asian Economic News - Find Articles
		Australia's Amber Bradley and Sally Kehoe took bronze in 7:22.86.
		In the men's pairs, Nathan Twaddle and George Bridgewater of New Zealand won in 6:52.51, ahead of Ramon Di Clemente and Donovan Cech of South Africa (6:55.52) and Luca Agamennoni and Dario Lari of Italy (6:57.29).
		Nicky Coles and Juliette Haigh of New Zealand, who have won two World Cup meets this season, took a clear water lead after 500 meters in the women's pairs and claimed gold in 7:43.83.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_2005_Sept_5/ai_n15403342 (584 words)

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