July 15, 2008 News British Rowing NewsBritish Rowing EventsRowing CommunityGB Rowing TeamCompetitions and ClubsIndoor RowingPartners#YourStoriesArchive Six returning medallists for U23 World Rowing Championships GB Rowing Team GB Rowing has announced the squad to contest the World U23 Championships in Brandenburg, Germany, from 18 – 20 July 2008, which includes six athletes who last year won bronze medals at this level – Tina Stiller, Charles Cousins, Bill Lucas, Mohamed Sbihi, Cameron Nichol and Charles Burkitt. Stiller, who has competed at two senior world cups this year, contests the women’s single scull rather than the women’s quadruple scull in which she won her 2007 bronze. ADVERT Cousins and Lucas will race the men’s double scull once more whilst Sbihi and Nichol contest the men’s four with Dan Ritchie and Will Laughton. Burkitt races in a men’s pair with Ben Smith, last year’s single sculler who won a bronze medal in the pair in 2006. Youth Olympic and 2006 world junior gold medallist Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell has been chosen to stroke the men’s eight. Jacqui Round, a world junior bronze medallist in the women’s quadruple scull last year, is part of this year’s women’s four which once more features Vicky Bryant, Kirsty Myles and Rachael Jefferies. Emily Taylor and Hannah Elsy, from Durham University,form the women’s pair. Six of the selected rowers have come through the ARA’s World Class Start Scheme, sponsored bySiemens and backed by the lottery. They are Bill Lucas, Charles Cousins, Mohamed Sbihi, Dan Ritchie, Bob Hewitt and Chris Boddy. Hewitt and Boddy race in the lightweight quadruple scull, unusual for this scheme which has been targetted more specifically at spotting heavyweight rowers. Britain won a gold and six bronzes at the last World U23 Championships. The gold came in the women’s pair from Heather Stanning and Olivia Whitlam. The latter is now part of GB’s Olympic team for Beijing whilst Stanning is at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. CREW LISTS (From bow to stroke with cox. Includes club or school/home town/d.o.b). OPEN WOMEN Pair Emily Taylor (Durham Uni/Lincoln/28.06.87)/Hannah Elsy (Durham Uni/Twickenham/28.12.86) Four Vicky Bryant (Oxford Brookes/Chester-le-Street /23.07.87)/Jacqui Round (Nottingham RC/St Neots/01.07.87)/Kirsty Myles (Oxford Brookes/Edinburgh/24.02.86)/Rachael Jefferies (Oxford Brookes/Abingdon/02.09.87) Single scull Tina Stiller (Nottingham RC/Yarm/23.06.87) Double scull Ruth Walczak (Uni of London/Rochdale/15.09.88)/Rosamund Bradbury (Westminster School/Banstead/17.12.88) MEN Pair Ben Smith (OUBC/Oxford/07.08.86)/Charles Burkitt (Leander/Newark/28.04.86) Four Dan Ritchie (Reading Univ/Herne Bay/06.01.87)/Mohamed Sbihi*(Molesey BC/Surbiton/27.03.88)/Cameron Nichol (University of London/Glastonbury/26.06.87)/Will Laughton (University of London/Isle of Man/17.06.87) *Subject to medical Eight Joshua Davidson (Leander/Twickenham/19.09.86)/Chris Abraham (Oxford Brookes/Lisbellaw, N. Ireland/05.12.87)/Mason Durant (Newcastle Uni/Halton, Lancs/12.02.88)/Fred Gill (Newcastle Uni/Shrewsbury/09.01.86)/Karl Hudspith (Oxford Brookes/Twickenham/31.03.88)/Matthew Rossiter (Abingdon School/Newbury/25.09.89)/Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell (University of London/Durham/13.04.88)/Scott Durant (Oxford Brookes/Halton, Lancs/12.02.88)/Henry Fieldman (University of London/London/25.11.88) (cox) Double scull Charles Cousins (Reading Univ/Cambridge/13.12/88)/Bill Lucas (Reading Univ/Kingswear/13.09.87) LIGHTWEIGHTS WOMEN Single scull Nicola Spencer (Exeter Uni/Chipping Norton/04.12.86) Double scull Emma Steel (Durham Uni/Chester-le-Street/08.02.87)/ Frances Fletcher (Durham Uni/Chester-le-Street/02.08/87) MEN Pair John Preston (Reading Uni/Durham/16.04.89)/Carl Delaney (Nottingham Uni/Wallingford/07.03.88) Quadruple scull Henry Chin (Durham Uni/London/27.03.86)/Bob Hewitt (Tees RC/Scarborough/27.04/87)/Nick Fearnhead (Durham Uni/Mold/08.02.88)/Chris Boddy (Tees RC/Stockton-on-Tees/16.11.87) Team Management David Tanner & Steve Gunn Coaches Peter Sheppard Stuart Whitelaw Chris Collerton Henry Bailhache-Webb Adrian Cassidy Nick Strange Edouard Blanc Ade Roberts Carl Smith Nathan Adams Peter Lee CONTACT DETAILS For further information about this press release please call: Tash Carpenter in the Matchtight Ltd office on: 01225 443998 Or 07765 258432 For general media enquiries about GB Rowing please contact: Caroline Searle T: (01225) 443998 M: (07831) 755351 e: [email protected] GB Rowing website www.gbrowing.org.uk – full biogs available here. The GB Rowing Squad is supported by the National Lottery Sports Fund as part of UK Sport’s Podium Programme. GB Rowing News bulletins are issued by British International Rowing. ADVERT