First medal for GB Rowing Team in Belarus
The GB Rowing Team has won its first medal of the World U23 Championships in Brest, Belarus, with a bronze in the men’s coxed four.
Andrew Holmes, Thomas Clark, Ertan Hazine, Patrick Lapage and Max Gander came home in 6:16.19 behind Italy and Germany.
The women’s four of Jenny Arnold, Monica Relph, Lottie Howard-Merrill and Polly Swann fell just short of the medals with fourth place in 6:46.55
Britain also qualified six boats for tomorrow’s final with Peter Chambers, in the lightweight men’s single scull and the men’s four of Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell, Matt Rossiter, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis both winning their semi-finals.
The other boats to qualify were the men’s eight, the lightweight men’s double and quadruple scull and four and the lightweight women’s double scull.
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RESULTS
(Events featuring GB crews only. Full results
at www.worldrowing.com)
A FINALS
OPEN
WOMEN
Four
1. USA 6:40.33
2. Australia 6:43.19
3. Germany 6:44.37
4. Jenny Arnold/Monica Relph/Lottie Howard-Merrill/Polly Swann
(GREAT BRITAIN) 6:46.55
5. Netherlands 6:47.17
6. Belarus 6:53.19
MEN
Coxed four
1. Italy 6:14.26
2. Germany 6:15.17
3. Andrew Holmes/Thomas Clark/Ertan Hazine/Patrick Lapage/
Max Gander (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:16.19
4. New Zealand 6:18.96
5. Canada 6:26.63
6. Croatia 6:29.71
B FINALS
OPEN
WOMEN
Quadruple scull
1. Italy 6:35.51
2. Ruth Walczak/Georgina Hazell/Vicky Meyer-Lake/
Rachel Gamble-Flint (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:35.66
3. Austria 6:39.52
4. New Zealand 6:43.82
5. Poland 6:50.02
6. Belarus 6:52.88
SEMI-FINALS
OPEN
MEN
Four
1. Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell/Matt Rossiter/George Nash/Constantine
Louloudis (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:07.94
2. Spain 6:11.65
3. Germany 6:12.06
4. Slovenia 6:17.09
5. Croatia 6:17.72
6. Lithuania 6:43.59
Eight
1. Germany 5:34.48
2. GREAT BRITAIN 5:37.50
3. Czech Republic 5:41.08
4. France 5:41.86
5. Ukraine 5:48.85
6. Italy 5:52.86
Quadruple scull
1. Russia 5:54.07
2. Poland 5:55.03
3. Switzerland 5:55.07
4. Germany 5:56.52
5. John Collins/Jonathan Walton/Nicholas Middleton/Jack
Hockley (GREAT BRITAIN)6:00.46
6. Slovenia 6:13.05
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Double scull
1. Greece 7:05.68
2. New Zealand 7:05.69
3. Kat Copeland/Charlotte Burgess (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:16.50
4. Ireland 7:18.29
5. USA 7:18.31
6. Denmark 7:26.26
MEN
Single scull
1. Peter Chambers (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:00.72
2. France 7:01.93
3. Belgium 7:02.67
4. Italy 7:20.78
5. Netherlands 7:16.93
6. Switzerland 7:20.47
Double scull
1. Denmark 6:26.75
2. Ben Rowe/Kieren Emery (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:27.79
3. Spain 6:29.67
4. Bulgaria 6:31.28
5. Czech Republic 6:39.29
6. Belarus 6:40.57
Quadruple scull
1. Ireland 6:02.23
2. Zak Lee-Green/Sam Scrimgeour/Jamie Watson/Carl Delaney
(GREAT BRITAIN) 6:02.96
3. France 6:03.46
4. Switzerland 6:03.62
5. Netherlands 6:06.88
6. Poland 6:09.73
Heat 3
1. Greece 7:18.02
2. Sweden 7:21.62
3. Kat Copeland/Charlotte Burgess (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:22.78
4. USA 7:25.07
5. Iraq 7:47.70
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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)
Coach: Steve Trapmore
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
