Faridah Newman
Posted by Concept2 News on the 15th of January 2001
Anybody who tuned into Blue Peter on Wednesday looking for tips on how to turn an old bottle of Fairy Liquid, some match boxes and an industrial load of sticky back plastic into a convincing replica of Tracy Island, will have caught sight of Faridah Newman strutting her stuff on an Indoor Rower. Faridah, who won the J13 category at the PPP healthcare British Indoor Rowing Championship and is the current British J12 record holder, was taking part in a spot highlighting potential stars of the future.In the long term, Faridah's aims are to get to the Junior World Championships in 2004 and then the Olympics in 2008. In the short term she's got her sights firmly fixed upon Fie Udby's 12 and under world record of 7:30.3. Does she think she's going to break it? Definitely.