Two from three into finals
The GB Rowing Team has converted two of its three chances so far to make the finals of the World U23 Championships in Brest, Belarus.
Today the women’s four, third in their repechage, joined the men’s coxed four who qualified yesterday.
The lightweight men’s four were heat winners today and will now move into the semi-finals. Their victory provided a clean sweep of heat wins for the lightweight men with the single, double and quad all having won yesterday.
One of the races of the day featured the men’s eight who led for the first half and were separated by never more than a canvas from the USA to whom they lost out narrowly on the line. The second place was still sufficient to put them through to the semi-finals.
The USA also pipped the men’s quadruple scull to the line with the British coming through Lithuania to take second.
Only the women’s quad failed to progress today they raced a heat and then a repechage but now face a B Final.
Tomorrow features a tough programme of semi-finals for the GB Rowing Team.
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RESULTS
(Events featuring GB crews only. Full results
at www.worldrowing.com)
OPEN
WOMEN
Four
Repechage
1. Netherlands 6:49.94
2. Germany 6:50.04
3. Jenny Arnold/Monica Relph/Lottie Howard-Merrill/Polly
Swann (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:51.89
4. Belarus 6:52.93
5. Italy 6:53.79
6. Ukraine 7:25.73
Single scull
1. Czech Republic 7:46.08
2. Ro Bradbury (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:48.18
3. Ireland 7:49.47
4. Russia 7:49.62
5. Greece 8:02.35
6. Latvia 8:06.38
Quadruple scull
Heat 2
1. Russia 6:34.17
2. Romania 6:37.08
3. Ruth Walczak/Georgina Hazell/Vicky Meyer-Lake/
Rachel Gamble-Flint (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:38.03
4. Australia 6:39.61
5. Austria 6:49.42
6. Poland 6:58.33
Repechage
1. Germany 6:34.09
2. Ukraine 6:35.96
3. Ruth Walczak/Georgina Hazell/Vicky Meyer-Lake/
Rachel Gamble-Flint (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:38.89
4. Austria 6:41.41
5. Belarus 6:52.34
MEN
Eight
1. USA 5:59.32
2. Karl Hudspith/Will Satch/Matt Tarrant/Calum Wright/Frazer Brent/
Scott Durant/Anthony Locke/Michael Evans/Henry Fieldman
(GREAT BRITAIN) 5:39.79
3. Australia 5:45.77
4. Ukraine 5:50.59
5. Turkey 5:53.75
Quadruple scull
Heat 1
1. USA 5:58.84
2. John Collins/Jonathan Walton/Nicholas Middleton/Jack
Hockley (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:00.80
3. Lithuania 6:06.72
4. France 6:09.50
5. Latvia 6:20.96
6. Israel 6:43.13
LIGHTWEIGHT
MEN
Heat 2
1. David Jones/Jonno Clegg/William Fletcher/Jamie Kirkwood
(GREAT BRITAIN) 6:07.73
2. Italy 6:09.14
3. Japan 6:10.83
4. Germany 6:11.44
5. Turkey 6:35.39
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GB ROWING TEAM ENTRIES
World U23 Championships, Brest, Belarus
22-25 July, 2009
(listed from bow to stroke with club/home town/d.o.b.)
OPEN
WOMEN
Four
Jenny Arnold (Durham University/Wargrave/6.2.90)/Monica Relph(Nottingham RC/Cambridge/15.1.88)/Lottie Howard-Merrill (Sport Imperial/Oxford/15.11.89)/Polly Swann (Glasgow RC/Edinburgh/6.5.88)
Coach: Neasa Folan
Single scull
Rosamund Bradbury (Jesus College/Banstead/17.12.88)
Quadruple scull
Ruth Walczak (Molesey BC/Rochdale/15.9.88)/Georgie Hazell
(Reading Uni/Hook, Hants/2.12.88)/Vicki Meyer-Lake (Nottingham
RC/Insch, Aberdeenshire/18.3.88)/Rachel Gamble-Flint (Yarm School/Darlington/13.9.91)
Coach: Nick Strange
MEN
Four
Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell (Uni of London/Durham/13.4.88)/Matt
Rossiter (Durham Uni/Newbury/25.9.89)/George Nash (Cambridge Uni/
Guildford/2.10.89)/Constantine Louloudis (Eton College/London/15.9.91)
Coach: Chris Collerton
Eight
Karl Hudspith (Oxford Brookes Uni/Twickenham/31.3.88)/Will Satch
(Leander/Henley-on-Thames/9.6.89)/Matt Tarrant (Oxford Brookes
Uni/Shepperton/11.7.90)/Calum Wright (Molesey BC/Esher,
Surrey/10.2.89)/Frazer Brent (Molesey BC/Cobham, Surrey/23.12.88)/
Scott Durant (Oxford Brookes Uni/Lancaster/12.2.98)/Anthony
Locke (Leander & Harvard/Newbridge, I.O.W/30.10.88)/Mike Evans
(Princeton &Leander/23.8.90)/Henry Fieldman (cox) (Imperial College/
Barnes, London/25.11.88) Coach: Henry Baillhache-Webb
Coxed four
Andy Holmes (Molesey BC/Lochwinnoch/4.10.91)/Tom Clark (Leander/
Worcester/28.1.89)/Ertan Hazine (Wallingford/Maidenhead/1.8.91)/
Patrick Lapage (Harvard/16.6.90)/Max Gander (cox) (Uni of London/
Oxford/26.1.90)
Coach: Ben Lewis
Quadruple scull
John Collins (Reading Uni/24.1.89)/Jonny Walton (Loughborough Uni/
Leicester/6.10.90)/Nick Middleton (Leander/12.8.88)/Jack Hockley
(Leander/High Wycombe/5.10.89)
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Double scull
Katherine Copeland (Uni of London/Stockton-on-Tees/1.12.90)/
Charlotte Burgess (Reading Uni/Bedford/25.6.90)
Coach: Eira Parry
MEN
Single scull
Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes/Coleraine/14.3.90)
Coach: Pete Sheppard
Double scull
Ben Rowe (Tees RC/Middlesbrough/5.11.88)/Kieren Emery (Leander/
Newcastle-upon-Tyne/1.6.90)
Coach: James Harris
Four
Dave Jones (Leander/Maidenhead/8.7.88)/Jono Clegg (Leander/
Maidenhead/14.7.89)/William Fletcher (Durham Uni/Chester-le-Street/
24.12.89)/Jamie Kirkwood (Imperial College/Northumberland/30.8.89)
Coach: Rob Dauncey
Quadruple scull
Zak Lee-Green (Agecroft RC/Cardiff/5.2.91)/Sam Scringeour
(Glasgow RC/Forfar, Angus/28.1.88)/Jamie Watson (Durham Uni/
Windsor/18.7.88)/Carl Delaney (Nottingham RC/Wallingford/7.3.88)
Support Team
Steve Gunn, Team Manager
Peter Sheppard, Chief Coach U23 & Juniors
Michelle Earby, Doctor
Abbie Turner, Physio
Andy Knee-Robinson, Equipment manager
Dez Atkins, Driver
