December 13, 2010 News British Rowing NewsBritish Rowing EventsRowing CommunityGB Rowing TeamIndoor RowingRowing & RegattaPartners#YourStoriesArchive Olympic and Paralympic qualifying season has begun GB Rowing Team Lake Karapiro in New Zealand, early last month, was the scene for the GB Rowing Team’s best world championships performance yet – a performance which merited a shortlisted place in the annual Sportswriters’ Association poll of journalists behind the winning European Ryder Cup team. For Performance Director David Tanner, chief coaches Jurgen Grobler and Paul Thompson – and all the rowers and coaches in the GB squad – Karapiro also marked the beginning of “the Olympic qualifying season”. With some habitually strong nations not showing top form in New Zealand they know the going will continue to be tough in the lead into the qualifying for London 2012.ADVERT This season culminates in the World Championships and Olympic and Paralympic qualifying regatta in: BLED, SLOVENIA, FROM AUGUST 28 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2011 Britain will seek to qualify boats into as many Olympic and Paralympic classes as possible here rather than through the last-chance final qualifying regatta in Lucerne from May 20-23, 2012. The process of selection for the GB squad in 2011 continues at the end of this year, after October’s edition, with the second long-distance trial at Boston, Lincs, on Saturday 18 December. World Championships team members are exempt from this. Full squad assessment therefore begins again – at Eton-Dorney (the Olympic venue) – in both February (12 and 13) and for the GB Rowing Team Senior Trials in April (16 and 17). KEY DATES IN THE GB ROWING TEAM DIARY FOR 2011 JANUARY 20-23 All the top coaches in the world gather for the FISA(World Rowing Federation) Coaches’ Conference in London. JANUARY 29GB Rowing Team Dinner (and Awards Ceremony) FEBRUARY 12-133rd GB Rowing Team Winter Assessment, Dorney Lake, Eton (first time that the full squad will be involved alongside thosewho have progressed from earlier assessments) MARCH 19Women’s Head of the River Race, London (Some GB female rowers will return to their clubs to race in this) APRIL 2Head of the River Race (Some GB male rowers will return to their clubs to race in this) 16-17GB Rowing Team Senior Trials, Dorney Lake, Eton (Time trials and side-by-side racing to help coaches decidewho will be in which boats for the first world cup of the 2011 season) MAY 27-29 Rowing World Cup 1, Munich Germany JUNE 17-19Rowing World Cup II, Hamburg, Germany Henley Women’s Regatta 29- July 3Henley Royal Regatta JULY 8-10Rowing World Cup III, Lucerne, Switzlerand 14Announcement of the World Championships Team (Provisional) 21-24World Rowing U23 Championships, Amsterdam, Netherlands 29-31Coupe de la Jeunesse, Linz, Austria AUGUST 4-7 World Rowing Junior Championships, Dorney Lake, Eton 28 – 4 September WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS, Bled, Slovenia SEPTEMBER 16-18European Rowing Championships, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. SIEMENS is the high performance partner of the GB Rowing Team (as such they sponsor all the Olympic and Paralympic Class boats in the senior squad and add value to the GB Rowing Teams’ Start and High Performance Programme in Clubs Schemes) SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================CONTACT DETAILSFor media enquiries about The GB Rowing Teams please contact: Caroline Searle T: (01225) 443998M: (07831) 755351 e: [email protected] ADVERT