May 30, 2009 News British Rowing NewsBritish Rowing EventsRowing CommunityGB Rowing TeamIndoor RowingRowing & RegattaPartners#YourStoriesArchive Tanner urges caution despite 17 finalists GB Rowing Team [img_assist|nid=3082|title=Adam Freeman-Pask takes GB’s first medal in Banyoles|desc=Picture: Peter Spurrier|link=none|align=right|width=328|height=176]David Tanner, GB Performance Director, was anxious that his team’s results – albeit "pleasing" so far at this season’s opening of three world cups in Banyoles, Spain – should be treated with caution and context even though 16 GB crews will feature in finals here and one crew has already won a bronze medal. "Yes, it’s been pleasing here and we have some good crews who have performed well but there are more crews and more nations to enter the scene later in the season either in Munich, the next World Cup in June, or Lucerne in July", he said.ADVERT Meanwhile, Pete Reed and Andy Triggs Hodge showed their potential as a pair once more today, winning their semi-final comfortably. "It’s been a good start and I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s final", said Reed. "We’ll be looking for that same strong rhythm in the boat that we had today". GB Rowing won their semi-finals in the men’s single and double sculls and qualified a second boat, of Katie Greves and Beth Rodford, into tomorrow’s women’s double scull final which already features Anna Bebington and Annabel Vernon. All four women will also race in the final of the women’s quadruple scull. Tomorrow will play witness to a debut final for Katherine Grainger in the women’s single scull and a first final for the new-look men’s four and quadruple scull, lightweight four and double scull – amongst others. Adam Freeman-Pask won GB’s first medal of the regatta today when he took bronze in the lightweight men’s single scull – his first senior medal in this international rather than Olympic boat class. "I had a bit of a ropey heat but a good repechage and that gave me the confidence going into the final today", he said. "It’s a bit scary to get a medal with all these big names around". Laura Greenhalgh won the B Final of the equivalent women’s boat class this afternoon, having narrowly missed out on a final place in this morning’s repechages. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE =============================== =============================== RACE REPORTS A FINAL Adam Freeman-Pask said he surprised even himself by taking bronze in the international rather than Olympic class lightweight men’s single scull final in one of the last races today. He started his regatta here with a heat he described as "ropey" but went on to race strongly in the repechage this morning and then produced a good performance in today’s final, moving up from fourth to a medal position in the second half of a race won by Greece in 7:09.12. SEMI-FINALS Pete Reed and Andy Triggs Hodge continued their winning ways on the world cup stage in Banyoles, Spain, this afternoon with a semi-final win in 6:34.46 – about four seconds ahead of the opposition today. South Africa won the second semi-final in 6:35.63 and also had a clear margin over the chasing pack from which Greece emerged to take second and Serbia third. Reed and Hodge had their bowball a whisper ahead by the 250m mark in their semi-final and gradually stretched out their lead to two lengths by 750m. Behind them France were quick in the first half but were overtaken for second place by Canada with 500m to go. "We got a better start today and I could feel the strength in the boat and that gave me confidence in the second half", said Hodge. Reed said: "After two strokes it was a case of keeping going as we were. We didn’t need to make too many moves. Tomorrow we will want to keep workingon that same rhythm" Stephen Rowbotham and Matt Wells – the latter having become a father for the first time in the past month – came into today’s semi-finals from a hotly-contested heat of the men’s double scull. The duo. who took Beijing bronze, looked strong from the outset and set the pace by leading at each of the three official timing points. At the finish, it looked as if France might take second pace until Croatia put in a finishing burst up the inside to finish just over two seconds behind the British with France in third. "Today we stepped up a gear and probably made it look a bit easier but it was just that we got out front and made sure we were in control", said Rowbotham. "Tomorrow I’m sure that the Croatians and French will be tough", said Wells. "The Croatians in particular have been nibbling away at us in the races so far. "As a crew we’re benefitting from the experience of training and racing together over the past three years"", said Wells of the Siemens-backed double. Alan Campbell took his victory in the men’s single scull semi-final today with his customary style of leading from the front. His winning time of 6:52.99 was testament to a great start to his season as the field today included Olympic champion Olaf Tufte who was second, five seconds behind Campbell. Eariler in the race, Iztok Cop of Slovenia had been holding third place but he was beaten to a spot the final by Angel Fournier Rodriguez of Cuba. However Campbell was quick to play down today’s result. "You shouldn’t read too much into it", he said. "It was obvious at one point that Olaf and I were going to qualify so he didn’t really challenge me. "I had a good one today, though, it’s fair to say. And the British supporters in the crowd were awesome. You can really hear them above all the others". Rob Williams and Paul Mattick have significant shoes to fill in the British squad at this regatta. They are racing in the lightweight men’s double scull, a boat category monopolised throughout 2009 by Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter who went onto take Olympic gold. Mattick and Williams showed their talent today as a new combination when they were a close second in their semi-final to Canada. Less than a second separated the crews at the finish in a race during which both crews were closely in contention with each other. The Canadians built a two second lead by the 1000m but the British clawed it back as the race unfolded. "Rob and I work well together. We’ve shared ideas when training in our singles and when racing in pairs. I’m really excited about tomorrow’s final as we’ve pushed both of today’s semi-final winners quite hard here", said Mattick. "I think today and yesterday we raced bits of both races well – but they were different bits. Let’s see what we can do tomorrow", said Williams. Adam Freeman-Pask was GB’s contestant in the lightweight men’s single scull semi-final. 1400 into his race this morning he was holding onto third place in the inside lane behind Denmark and Italy. In a dramatic last 500m Freeman-Pask pushed hard, created a strong finish and took second in 7:15.48 just a few tenths of a second behind the winner Mads Rasmussen of Denmark. His prize was to book a place in the final from where he won a bronze medal. REPECHAGES GB Rowing had a world champion crew in the lightweight men’s four in 2007 who were also Olympicfinalists. This, though, is a season to rebuild this boat with a new crew which features some interesting rowers from the Siemens-backed and lottery-funded world class start scheme which identifies raw talent at school or first year University. Today Chris Boddy, Chris Bartley, Bob Hewitt and Stephen Feeney showed their racing mettle by booking a place in tomorrow’s finals with a second place in the repechage in a time of 6:15.51 behind the winners Denmark who clocked 6:14.03. Beth Rodford and Katie Greves knew that a top two placing in the women’s double scull repechage would also book passage into tomorrow’s final to join the already- qualified Annabel Vernon and Anna Bebington. They set about the task with gusto this afternoon and battled with Poland in the opening half of the race. Behind them the Danish double were clinging onto contention. By 1500m Poland still held the lead with Rodford and Greves in second. As the crews raced past the grandstand – somewhat loaded in favour of GB’s vocal, travelling army of spectators – the Danes pushed hard but Rodford and Greves prevailed to take second in 7:15.55 behind Poland in 7:12.95 GB Rowing’s lightweight women’s double of Andrea Dennis and Sophie Hosking, brought together very recently because of injury to Hester Goodsell, put in a strong showing in today’s repechage and claimed second spot in their race and, with it, a place in the final. The British duo tracked the leading Greek double throughout the first half of the race. In a final 500m battle the GB double briefly took the lead and even though they were second at the line, the margin was within two tenths of a second. Laura Greenhalgh made the pace in the opening 900m of her lightweight women’s single repechage in the morning, pushing to a one length lead over Sara Karlsson of Sweden. The Dane and the French sculler were also in contention. At 1300m Karlsson responded to a push from Juliane Rasmussen on her outside and both boats overhauled Greenhalgh with the Dane taking the verdict by a length from Karlsson. Greenhalgh held onto third and now races a B Final tomorrow. SEEDING RACES There were also seeding races today for lanes in tomorrow’s finals of the women’s pair and single scull, the men’s and women’s quadruple sculls and eights. GB showed well in the women’s pair winning a tight contest with Russia to the line. The GB U23 duo of Monica Relph and Jacqui Round were fourth in the same race. Olivia Whitlam and Louisa Reeve’s victory was swiftly followed by a confident debut win in the women’s single scull from Katherine Grainger who has now put herself into pole position for tomorrow’s final. Grainger’s old boat, the women’s quadruple scull were the next to race and, equally, looked good in winning their race. GB Rowing has an emerging men’s quadruple scull who looked confident this morning in taking second place behind the Olympic champions. Their men’s eight team-mates are also a new combination and were fourth today whilst the women won their race. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE =============================== =============================== RESULTS A Finals LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Single scull 1. Vasileios Polymeros (Greece) 7:09.12 2. Lorenzo Bertini (Italy 2) 7:12.15 3. Adam Freeman-Pask (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:14.14 4. Mads Rasmussen (Denmark) 7:16.36 5. Timothee Heijbrock (Netherlands) 7;16.76 6. Jeremie Azou (France 2) 7:16.79 SEMI-FINALS OPEN MEN Pair 1. Pete Reed/Andy Triggs Hodge (GREAT BRITAIN) 6;34.46 2. James Dunaway/Derek O’Farrell (Canada) 6:38.88 3. Germain Chardin/Dorian Mortelette (France 1) 6:41.22 4. Lukasz Kardas/Dawid Paczes (Poland) 6:48.81 5. Mostafa Zeidan/Yehia El Bakry (Egypt 1) 6:55.85 6. Andrei Dzemyanenka/Yauheni Nosau (Belarus 1) 7:00.53 Single scull 1. Alan Campbell (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:52.99 2. Olaf Tufte (Norway 1) 6:57.02 3. Angel Fournier Rodriguez (Cuba) 7:01.19 4. Iztok Cop (Slovenia) 7:05.03 5. Sergey Fedorovtsev (Russia 2) 7:07.40 6. Lassi Karonen (Sweden) 7:13.81 Double scull 1. Matt Wells/Stephen Rowbotham (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:23.28 2. David Sain/Damir Martin (Croatia 2) 6:25.45 3. Jean-Baptiste Macquet/Adrien Hardy (France 3) 6:25.50 4. Luca Ghezzi/Romano Battisti (Italy 2) 6:30.41 5. Ahmed Khamis/Mostafa El Bestawy (Egypt 1) 6:30.86 6. Matteo Stefanini/Simone Raineri (Italy) 6:38.28 LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Single scull 1. Mads Rasumussen (Denmark) 7:15.09 2. Adam Freeman-Pask (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:15.48 3. Lorenzo Bertini (Italy 2) 7:15.96 4. Daniele Gilardoni (Italy 1) 7:17.98 5. Frederic Dufour (France 1) 7:27.92 6. Jonathan Winter (USA) 7:34.05 Double scull Semi-final 1 1. Douglas Vandor/Cameron Sylvester (Canada) 6:30.92 2. Rob Williams/Paul Mattick (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:31.44 3. Tommaso Sacchini/Davide Babboni (Italy) 6:34.79 4. Jaap Schouten/Paul Drewes (Netherlands) 6:35.70 5. Ilias Pappas/Dimitios Mougios (Greece) 6:35.73 6. Yunior Perez Aguilera Perez/Liosbel Hernandez (Cuba) 6:54.58 REPECHAGES OPEN WOMEN Double scull 1. Magdalena Fularczyk/Natalia Madaj (Poland 2) 7:12.95 2. Beth Rodford/Katie Greves (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 7:15.55 3. Fie Graugaard/Lea Jakobsen (Denmark 1) 7:16.58 4. Nienke Kingma/Femke Dekker (Netherlands) 7:21.67 5. Lisbet Jakobsen/Tanja Ehlers (Denmark 2) 7:39.12 6. Heba & Eman Hassan (Egypt) 7:48.72 LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN Single scull 1. Juliane Rasmussen (Denmark) 8:05.97 2. Sara Karlsson (Sweden) 8:07.78 3. Laura Greenhalgh (GREAT BRITAIN) 8:17.96 4. Elise Maurin (France 3) 8:19.71 5. Coralie Ribeil (France 2) 8:22.66 Double scull 1. Triantafyllia Kalampoka/Christina Giazitzidou (Greece) 7:07.51 2. Andrea Dennis/Sophie Hosking (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:07.70 3 Rianne Sigmond/Maaike Head (Netherlands) 7:10.24 4. Helle Tibian/Marie Gottlieb (Denmark 1) 7:24.56 5. Helene Olsen/Mia Espersen (Denmark 2) 7:34.21 MEN Four 1. Denmark 6:14.03 2. Bob Hewitt/Stephen Feeney/Chris Boddy/Chris Bartley (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:15.51 3. Switzerland 6:16.00 4. Netherlands 6:24.04 SEEDING RACES FOR LANES OPEN WOMEN Pair 1. Louisa Reeve/Olivia Whitlam (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 7:27.98 2. Mayya Zhuchkova/Alevtina Podvyazkina (Russia) 7:29.04 3. Samanta Molina/Enrica Marasca (Italy) 7:41.62 4. Monica Relph/Jacqui Round (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 7:42.88 5. Marie Le Nepvou/Stephanie Dechand (France) 7:44.80 Single scull 1. Katherine Grainger (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:56.55 2. Brett Sickler (USA) 7:58.52 3. Nuria Dominguez Asensio (Spain) 8:00.11 4. Frida Svensson (Sweden) 8:00.51 5. Nienke Groen (Netherlands) 8:16.10 6. Roxane Gabriel (France) 8:29.27 Quadruple scull 1. Katie Greves/Beth Rodford/Anna Bebington/Annabel Vernon (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:41.98 2. Netherlands 6:44.77 3. Italy 6:51.97 MEN Eight 1. Italy 5;37.75 2. Poland 5:40.19 3. Netherlands 5:41.57 4. Tom Wilkinson/James Foad/James Orme/Tom Burton/ Mohamed Sbihi/Tom Solesbury/Tom Ransley/James Clarke/Phelan Hill (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:42.45 Quadruple scull 1. Poland 5:54.77 2. Charles Cousins/Marcus Bateman/Bill Lucas/Sam Townsend (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:56.15 3. Russia 6:03.85 4. Canada DNS SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE =============================== =============================== CREW LISTS (club/home town/d.o.b in brackets) WORLD CUP, BANYOLES, SPAIN May 29-31 OPEN WOMEN Pair Olivia Whitlam (Agecroft/Warrington/16.09.85)/Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.84) Single scull Katherine Grainger (St Andrew BC/Aberdeen/12.11.75) Double scull – two boats Annabel Vernon (Marlow RC/Wadebridge/01.09.82)/Anna Bebington (Leander Club/Leek, Staffs/13.02.83) Katie Greves (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.82)/ Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC/Burton-on-Trent/ 28.12.82) Quadruple scull Katie Greves (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.82)/ Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC/Burton-on-Trent/ 28.12.82)/ Anna Bebington (Leander Club/Leek, Staffs/13.02.83)/ Annabel Vernon (Marlow RC/Wadebridge/01.09.82) Eight Alice Freeman (Wallingford RC/Oxford/06.09.78)/ Jennie Farmer (Molesey BC/Isleworth/26.03.85) Jo Cook (Leander/Nottingham/22.03.84)/ Lindsey Maguire (Wallingford/Edinburgh/15.01.82)/ Olivia Whitlam (Agecroft/Warrington/16.09.85)/ Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.84)/ Natasha Page (Reading Uni BC/Hartpury/30.04.85)/ Jess Eddie (Uni of London BC/Durham/07.10.84)/ Caroline O’Connor (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Ealing/25.04.83) (cox) Additional U23 Pair Jacqui Round (Nottingham RC/St Neots/01.07.87)/ Monica Relph (Nottingham RC/Cambridge/15.01.88) MEN Pair Peter Reed (Leander Club/Nailsworth, Glos/27.07.81)/Andy Triggs Hodge (Molesey BC/Hebden, N.Yorks/03.03.79) Four Matt Langridge(Leander Club/Northwich/20.05.83)/Richard Egington (Leander Club/Knutsford/26.02.79)/Alex Gregory (Reading Uni BC/Wormington/11.03.84)/Alex Partridge (Leander Club/Alton, Hants/25.01.81) Eight Tom Wilkinson (Leander Club/Reading/04.07.85)/ James Foad (Molesey BC/Southampton/20.03.87) James Orme (Leander Club/Colchester/01.04.84)/ Tom Burton (Leander Club/Barton-le-Clay, Beds/24.05.80)/ Mohamed Sbihi (Molesey BC/Surbiton/27.03.88)/ Tom Solesbury (Isis BC/Petts Wood, Kent/23.09.80)/ Tom Ransley (Cambridge University BC/ Ashford, Kent/06.09.85)/ James Clarke (London RC/London/31.12.84)/ Phelan Hill (cox) (Leander Club/Bedford/21.07.79) Single scull – two boats Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers/Coleraine/09.05.83) Ian Lawson (Leander Club/Otley, W Yorks/04.03.77) Double scull Matt Wells (Leander Club/Hexham, Northumberland/19.04.79)/ Stephen Rowbotham (Leander Club/Winscombe, Somerset/11.11.81) Quadruple Scull Charles Cousins (Reading Univ BC/Cambridge/13.12.88)/ Marcus Bateman (Leander Club/Torquay/16.09.82)/ Bill Lucas (Reading Univ BC/Kingswear/13.09.87)/ Sam Townsend (Reading Uni BC/Reading/26.11.85) LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN Single scull Laura Greenhalgh (London RC/Oxford/02.09.85) Double scull Andrea Dennis (London RC/Oxford/03.01.82)/ Sophie Hosking (London RC/Wimbledon/25.01.86) MEN Single scull Adam Freeman-Pask (Imperial College BC/Windsor/19.06.85) Double scull Rob Williams (London RC/Maidenhead/21.01.85)/Paul Mattick (Leander Club/Frome, Somerset/25.04.78) Four Bob Hewitt (Tees RC/Scarborough/27.04.87)/ Stephen Feeney (London RC/Coleraine/12.05.85)/ Chris Boddy (Tees RC/Stockton-on-Tees/16.11.87)/ Chris Bartley (Leander Club/Chester/02.02.84) ADVERT