June 1, 2007 News British Rowing NewsBritish Rowing EventsRowing CommunityGB Rowing TeamCompetitions and ClubsIndoor RowingPartners#YourStoriesArchive Six more semi-finalists GB Rowing Team Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter led a list of six British crews who moved through to tomorrow’s semi-finals of the rowing world cup in Linz, Austria, via repechages and quarter-finals to join the nine British crews already through by dint of wins or placings in this morning’s heats. The results today – especially in the Olympic boat classes – combined to make this one of the most successful starts to a world cup for Britain.ADVERT Britain’s flagship men’s four were one of the crews to win their heat earlier today. The women’s quadruple scull, featuring Katherine Grainger, is yet to compete with heats starting tomorrow morning alongside those for the men’s and women’s eights. The finals of the event are on Sunday. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE =============================== =============================== RACE REPORTS QUARTER-FINALS Alasdair Leighton-Crawford kicked off Britain’s quarter-final efforts in Linz, Austria, this afternoon with a win in the lightweight single scull in 7:24.73 putting him into tomorrow’s semi-finals. With thunder rattling around the course, the Siemens-backed GB women’s open-weight pair of Natasha Howard and Alison Knowles – so blistering in winning their heat this morning – put in a solid performance to take third place in their quarter final and book a semi-final tomorrow. The Canadians in this race blasted out to a major lead at the start but were later caught by the USA and, by the finish, Great Britain also had an overlap. Meanwhile Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter followed up their morning win in the heats with a similarly impressive victory in the quarter-finals of the lightweight men’s double scull. The duo wound their way up through the field to take the lead at the two-thirds mark and went on to win in 6:35.08 ahead of Hungary and the Czech Republic in second and third respectively. Helen Casey and Hester Goodsell, in the equivalent women’s event, were second for the first half of their quarter-final, dropped back to fourth but then regained their second place towards the end with Poland winning and Denmark third. Their compatriots Mathilde Pauls and Jane Hall were fourth in the same race. REPECHAGES The men’s quadruple scull of Ian Lawson, Sam Townsend, Alex Gregory and Simon Fieldhouse rounded-up a successful day for GB by winning their repechage in a time of 6:00.08 in one of the closest finishes of the early evening. Gregory and Townsend are both graduates of the ARA’s World Class Start programme, sponsored by Siemens. Earlier Andrea Dennis made good use of this afternoon’s repechages – or "second chance" races – in Linz, Austria, by taking second place in a time of 8:08.63 to move through to tomorrow’s semi-finals. She tracked the eventual Italian winner, Erika Bello, down the course and held off a challenge the other Italian who took third place. Tom Solesbury, in the open men’s single scull, was not so fortunate. He came third in his repechage, with only one qualifying for the semi-finals. In a sudden and heavy downpour Britain’s second men’s four were quick off the mark and were leading from a tight pack at the 500m mark. They couldn’t sustain their position, though, slipping back to fourth at the line with only two going through to semi-finals. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE =============================== =============================== RESULTS QUARTER-FINALS OPEN WOMEN Quarter-final 4 1. Megan Cooke/Anna Mickelson (USA 1) 7:12.67 2. Darcy Marquardt/Jane Rumball (Canada) 7:14.09 3. Natasha Howard/Alison Knowles (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:17.05 4. Marit van Eupen/Luara Posthuma (Netherlands 1) 7:22.63 5. Hanna Nakhayeva/Natallia Helakh (Belarus 1) 7:25.19 6. Alena Zakharava/Volha Zhylskaya (Belarus 2) 7:36.84 LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN Double scull Quarter-final 2 1. Magdalena Kemnitz/Ilona Mokronowska (Poland 1) 7:17.43 2. Helen Casey/Hester Goodsell (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:18.46 3. Sine Christiansen/Jespen Kirsten (Denmark 2) 7:18.81 4. Jane Hall/Mathilde Pauls (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 7:22.32 5. Alexandra White/Kirsten McCann (South Africa 2) 7:23.76 6. Zsofia Novak/Zsuzsa Hajdu (Hungary) 7:26.19 MEN Single scull Quarter-final 2 1. Alasdair Leighton-Crawford (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:24.73 2. Valeri Porsvirnin (Estonia) 7:26.01 3. Kamel Ait Daoud (Algeria) 7:30.96 4. Richard Coakley (Ireland) 7:31.59 5. Mohamed Mhenni (Tunisia) 8:08.11 Double scull Quarter-final 4 1. Zac Purchase/Mark Hunter (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:35.08 2. Zsolt Hirling/Tamas Varga (Hungary 1) 6:37.22 3. Ondrej & Jan Vetesnik (Czech Republic) 6:38.25 4. Dong Tianfeng/Guolin Zhang (China) 6:41.82 5. Tamas Varga/Peter Galambos (Hungary 2) 6:50.37 6. Mohamed Garidi/Dries Chaouki (Algeria) 6:54.23 REPECHAGES OPEN MEN Four 1. Czech Republic 6:02.12 2. Germany 2 6:04.74 3. Italy 2 6:07.08 4. James Orme/Marcus Bateman/Kieran West/Tom Parker (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:07.90 5. Serbia 6:18.19 Single scull Repechage 2 1. Yoennis Hernandez Arruez (Cuba) 7:10.37 2. Ralph Kreibich (Austria) 7:14.15 3. Tom Solesbury (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:23.46 Quadruple scull Repechage 1 1. Simon Fieldhouse/Sam Townsend/Alexander Gregory/Ian Lawson (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:00.08 2. Belarus 6:00.57 3. Hungary 6:00.85 4. Canada 6:01.26 5. Italy 2 6:03.50 6. Austria 6:10.84 LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN Single scull Repechage 1 1. Erika Bello (Italy 1) 8:07.05 2. Andrea Dennis (GREAT BRITAIN) 8:08.63 3. Carola Tambolini (Italy 2) 8:11.49 4. Anne Touminet (France) 8:19.01 5. Lourdes Guillen Cruz (Spain) 8:22.08 6. Neylan Oeztuerk (Turkey) 8:22.34 ADD RESULT FROM MORNING’S HEATS The following result was missing from this morning’s bulletin. MEN OPEN Single Scull Heat 7 1. Marcel Hacker (Germany 1) 7:22.32 2. Jean-Pierre Peltier (France) 7:27.16 3. Tom Solesbury (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:28.34 4. Janier Concepcion (Cuba 2) 7:38.28 SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE =============================== =============================== GB CREWS FOR FIRST WORLD CUP OF 2007 LINZ, AUSTRIA, 1-3 JUNE (listed bow to stroke with club/home town/date of birth in brackets after name) OPEN WOMEN WOMEN Pair Alison Knowles (Thames RC/Bournemouth/27.3.82)/ Natasha Howard (Tideway Scullers/West Runton/3.9.80) Eight Baz Moffat (Thames RC/Bradford/8.4.78)/Jess Eddie (Uni of London/Durham/7.10.84)/Georgina Menheneott (Mortlake, Anglian & Alpha RC/North Bradley, Wilts /18.12.78) Louise Reeve (Leander/…./16.05.84)/Beth Rodford (Thames RC/Burton-on-Trent/ 28.12.82)/Carla Ashford (Thames RC/Northallerton/13.3.79)/ Katie Greves (Uni of London/Oxford/2.9.82)/Natasha Page (Reading Uni/Hartpury/30.4.85)/Caroline O’Connor (Oxford Brookes/ Ealing/25.4.83) Quadruple scull Debbie Flood (Leander Club/Leeds/27.2.80)/Annie Vernon (Thames RC/Wadebridge/1.9.82)/Fran Houghton (Uni of London/Oxford/19.9.80)/Katherine Grainger (St Andrew BC/Aberdeen/12.11.75) MEN Pair Colin Smith (Leander/Henley on Thames/3.9.83)/Matt Langridge (Leander/Northwich/20.5.83) Four – two boats Steve Williams (Leander Club/Cheltenham/15.4.76)/Peter Reed (Leander Club/Nailsworth, Glos/27.7.81)/Alex Partridge (Leander Club/Alton, Hants/25.1.81)/Andy Triggs Hodge (Molesey BC/Hebden, N.Yorks/3.8.79) Marcus Bateman (Leander/Torquay/16.9.82)/Tom Parker (OUBC/Winchester/24.10.82)/Kieran West (CUBC/West Byfleet/ 18.9.77)/James Orme (Leander/Colchester/1.4.84) Eight Jonno Devlin (Oxford Brookes/Putney/17.3.76)/Tom Stallard (Leander/Welwyn, Herts/11.9.78)/Tom Lucy (Oxford Brookes/ Monmouth/1.5.88)/Hugo Lee (Oxford Brookes/Jedburgh/5.3.84)/ Josh West (Leander/Santa Fe/25.3.77)/Richard Egington (Leander/Knutsford/26.2.79)/Robin Bourne-Taylor (Army RC/Oxford/22.7.81)/ Alastair Heathcote (Army RC/London/18.08.77)/Acer Nethercott (OUBC/Harlow/28.11.77) Single Scull Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers/Coleraine/9.5.83) Double Scull Matt Wells (Leander Club/Hexham, Northumberland/19.4.79)/ Stephen Rowbotham (Leander Club/Winscombe, Somerset/11.11.81) Quadruple scull Simon Fieldhouse (Molesey/Thames Ditton/4.9.76)/Sam Townsend (Reading Uni/Reading/26.11.85)/Alex Gregory (Reading Uni/ Wormington/11.3.84)/Ian Lawson (Leander/Oltey, W.Yorks/4.3.77) LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN Single scull (two boats) Andrea Dennis (Wallingford RC/…../03.01.82) Sophie Hosking (Durham Uni/Wimbledon/25.01.86) Double scull (two boats) Helen Casey (Wallingford RC/Oxford/6.2.74)/ Hester Goodsell (Rob Roy/Cambridge/27.6.84) Jane Hall (Leander/Caversham/20.10.73)/ Mathilde Pauls (Imperial College BC/…../26.09.83) MEN Pair Matt Beechey (Leander/Worcester/3.4.77)/Daniel Harte (London/Edinburgh/12.12.75) Four Richard Chambers (Oxford Brookes/Coleraine/10.6.85)/ James Lindsay-Fynn (London/Trim/29.9.75)/Paul Mattick (Wallingford/Oxford/25.4.78)/James Clarke (London RC/ London/13.12.84) Single scull Alasdair Leighton-Crawford (Tideway Scullers/Richmond-upon-Thames/09.12.81) Double scull Mark Hunter (Leander Club/Romford, Essex/1.7.78)/ Zac Purchase (Marlow RC/Tewkesbury, Glos/2.5.86) ADVERT