Four finalists and an international first for Townsend
GB Rowing has four boats through to the finals of the European Championships in Athens on a day when Sam Townsend recorded his first senior international race win in a single scull to reach the semi-finals.
Townsend will be joined in the semis tomorrow by the men’s double scull of Charles Cousins and Bill Lucas whilst GB’s four finalists are the men’s and women’s eights and the lightweight and open women’s double sculls. Three of these four boats needed a repechage to make the final cut.
Racing today was made difficult by the wind and with a stormy winds projected over the weekend the racing programme has been rescheduled to finish tomorrow rather than on Sunday.
The European Championships, recently reinstated to the senior event calendar after a gap of over thirty years, has developed into an event where GB can test its developing rowers. Townsend, Lucas and Cousins, for instance, narrowly missed qualification for Olympic Games this year in the men’s quadruple scull and will benefit from the senior-level racing opportunity. In Athens some nations have chosen, though, to field strong crews including Beijing Olympians.
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RESULTS
HEATS
OPEN
WOMEN
Eight
(NB – seeding race)
1. Romania 6:10.37
2. Jo Cook/Vicky Myers/Georgina Menheneott/Emily Taylor/Rachael
Loveridge/Kirsty Myles/Lindsey Maguire/Hannah Elsy/Rebecca Dowbiggin
(cox) GREAT BRITAIN 6:15.31
3. Belarus 6:18.65
4. Ukraine 6:21.69
5. Poland 6:23.19
6. Italy 6:29.11
Double scull
1. Ukraine 7:01.78
2. Bulgaria 7:11.05
3. Tina Stiller/Debbie Flood (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:14.01
4. Romania 7:15.44
MEN
Four
1. Greece 5:59.38
2. Spain 6:06.45
3. George Laughton/Will Laughton/Pete Marsland/Tom
Ransley (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:07.59
4. Belarus 6:13.08
5. Serbia 6:14.04
Eight
1. Germany 5:38.22
2. Romania 5:44.60
3. Charles Burkitt/Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell/Phil Turnham /Tom Broadway /Marcus Bateman/James Orme/Tom Burton/Tom Wilkinson /Phelan Hill (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:46.17
4. Ukraine 5:47.50
Single scull
1. Sam Townsend (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:55.45
2. Bulgaria 6:56.00
3. Italy 6:56.29
4. Netherlands 7:11.70
5. Russia 7:23.59
6. Croatia 7:51.19
Double scull
1. Italy 6:21.31
2. Germany 6:24.78
3. Charles Cousins/Bill Lucas (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:27.21
4. Greece 6:38.39
5. Lithuania 6:42.46
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Double scull
1. Poland 7:08.99
2. Frances Fletcher/Andrea Dennis (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:19.63
3. Austria 7:25.56
REPECHAGES
OPEN
WOMEN
Double scull
1. Italy 7:11.53
2. Greece 7:16.89
3. Bulgaria 7:17.72
4. Tina Stiller/Debbie Flood (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:18.39
5. Romania 7:18.79
6. Lithuania 7:22.23
MEN
Four
1. Ukraine 6:16.65
2. Belarus 6:17.75
3. George Laughton/Will Laughton/Pete Marsland/Tom
Ransley (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:19.52
4. Denmark 6:27.42
Eight
1. Poland 5:50.70
2. Russia 5:52.30
3. Croatia 5:52.62
4. Charles Burkitt/Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell/Phil Turnham /Tom Broadway / Marcus Bateman/James Orme/Tom Burton/Tom Wilkinson /Phelan Hill (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:53.22
5. Romania 5:54.26
6. Ukraine 6:04.82
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Double scull
1. Germany 7:26.59
2. Austria 7:27.15
3. Hungary 7:27.94
4. Frances Fletcher/Andrea Dennis (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:28.49
5. Belarus 7:31.18
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GB ROWING CREW LISTS
European Championships 2008, Schinias
(with clubs/home towns/dates of birth)
(listed from bow to stroke)
OPEN WOMEN
Eight:
Jo Cook (Leander / Nottingham / 22.03.84)
Vicky Myers (Leander / Cheshire/ 31.03.81)
Georgina Menheneott (Mortlake / North Bradley / 18.12.78)
Emily Taylor (Durham University / Lincoln / 28.06.87)
Rachael Loveridge (Leander / 05.07.80)
Kirsty Myles (Oxford Brookes / Edinburgh / 24.02.86)
Lindsey Maguire (Wallingford / Oxford / 15.01.82)
Hannah Elsy (Durham University / Twickenham / 28.12.86)
Rebecca Dowbiggin (cox) (CUBC / Cambridge / 11.04.83) (cox)
Coach: Nick Strange
Double scull
Tina Stiller (Nottingham RC / Yarm / 16.05.84)
Debbie Flood (Leander / Guiseley / 16.09.85)
Coach: Ade Roberts
OPEN MEN
Four
George Laughton (Leander / Douglas, Isle of Man / 21.04.85)
Will Laughton (University of London BC / Northwick / 17.06.87)
Pete Marsland (CUBC / Hampton /06.03.85)/Tom Ransley
(CUBC/Ashford / 06.09.85)
Coach: Peter Sheppard
Eight
Charles Burkitt (Leander / Newark / 28.04.86)
Dan Ritchie or (Reading University / Herne Bay / 06/01/87)
Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell ( University of London BC / Durham / 13.04.88)
Phil Turnham (Reading University / Stanmore / 13.09.81)
Tom Broadway (Leander / )
Marcus Bateman (Leander / Torquay / 16.09.82)
James Orme (Leander / Colchester / 01.04.84)
Tom Burton (Leander / 24.05.80)
Tom Wilkinson (Leander / Reading / 04.07.85 )
Phelan Hill (Leander / Bedford / 21.07.80)
Coach: Jonny Singfield
Single Scull
Sam Townsend (Reading University Boat Club / Reading / 26.11.85)
Coach: Adrian Cassidy
Double Scull
Charles Cousins ( Reading University Boat Club / Willingham / 13.12.88)
Bill Lucas ( Reading University Boat Club / Kingswear / 13.09.87)
Coach: Adrian Cassidy
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Double scull
Frances Fletcher (Durham Uni/Chester-le-Street/2.8.87)
/Andrea Dennis (Wallingford/Oxford/3.1.82)
