May 27, 2011 News British Rowing NewsBritish Rowing EventsRowing CommunityGB Rowing TeamCompetitions and ClubsIndoor RowingPartners#YourStoriesArchive GB Rowing Team’s 23 crews all still in contention at the end of day one in Munich GB Rowing Team All 23 GB crews remain on the race-card at the season’s opening World Cup after the first day of racing in Munich. Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase led the successes of the afternoon session with a smooth quarter-final win in the lightweight men’s double scull.ADVERT The GB men’s quad, stroked by Sam Townsend, booked a place in Sunday’s finals with a close-run second place in their heat – losing out by just four hundredths to the Ukraine – and Vicky Thornley produced a strong repechage in the women’s single scull to qualify for tomorrow’s semi-finals. So did GB’s second-string lightweight men’s four with an exciting and well-fought second half performance. The GB Rowing Team men’s eight fought out a tough heat with world champions Germany before taking second place and moving into tomorrow’s repechage. Peter Chambers and Kieren Emery edged their more highly-ranked GB counterparts, Chris Boddy and Adam Freeman-Pask, into the repechage of the lightweight men’s pair by taking second place and qualifying for the final.In the adaptive repechages, which brought the day’s racing to its conclusion, Captain Nick Beighton and Sam Scowen put in a powerful performance to win and move into tomorrow’s final. *SIEMENS is the high performance partner of the GB Rowing Team(as such they sponsor all the Olympic and Paralympic Classboats in the senior squad and add value to the GB RowingTeams’ Start and High Performance Programme in Clubs Schemes) SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================RESULTS(heats featuring GB Rowing Team crews only – fullresults at www.worldrowing.com) QUARTER-FINALS LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Double scull Quarter-final 4 1. Zac Purchase/Mark Hunter (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:25.512. Mads Radmussen/Rasmus Quist (Denmark 1) 6:29.043. Nemanja Nesic/Milos Stanojevic (Serbia) 6:30.284. Svein Urban Ringstad/Kristoffer Brun (Norway) 6:32.735. Barbaros Goezutok/Bayram Sonmez (Turkey) 6:33.846. Spyridon Giannaros/Panglotis Magdanis (Greece 2) 6:35.96 REPECHAGES OPEN WOMEN Single scull 1. Vicky Thornley (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:49.912. Lenka Antosova (Czech 3) 7:52.523. Annick de Decker (Belgium) 8:00.024. Kaisa Pajusalu (Estonia) 8:04.175. Kristina Boncheva (Bulgaria) 8:06.166. Carolina Figueroa Rodriguez (El Salvador) 8:13.80 MEN Eight 1. Germany 5:27.632. Alex Partridge/Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell/Cameron Nichol/ Will Satch/Mohamed Sbihi/Greg Searle/Tom Ransley/Dan Ritchie/Phelan Hill (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:29.303. Netherlands 5:34.504. China 5:36.54 LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Four 1. China 2 6:04.922. Poland 6:07.213. John Preston/Jonathan Clegg/Will Fletcher/Jamie Kirkwood (GREAT BRITAIN2) 6:07.454. Japan 6:08.195. Argentina 6:11.366. Spain 6:14.26 ADAPTIVE MIXED Double scull 1. Nick Beighton/Sam Scowen (GREAT BRITAIN) 4:08.98 2. John Maclean/Kathryn Ross (Australia) 4:13.093. Daniele Stefanoni/Silvia de Maria (Italy) 4:14.064. Reuven Magnagey/Olga Sokolov (Israel) 4:19.725. Jolanta Pawlak/Michal Gadowski (Poland) 4:27.65 HEATS OPEN MEN Quadruple scull 1. Ukraine 1 5:51.022. Tom Solesbury/Stephen Rowbotham/Bill Lucas/Sam Townsend (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:51.063. Poland 5:56.034. Italy 1 6:00.735. Romania 6:05.38 LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Pair 1. Jiri Kopac/Miroslav Vrastil Jr 6:43.382. Peter Chambers/Kieren Emery (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 6:48.843. Chris Boddy/Adam Freeman-Pask (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 6:49.914. Luca de Maria/Armando Dell’Aquila (Italy 1) 6:50.025. Luigi Scala/Pietro Ruta (Italy 2) 7:02.66 PRELIMINARY RACE (To define the lane draw in the final) OPEN WOMEN Quadruple scull 1. Ukraine 1 6;24.502. Debbie Flood/Beth Rodford/Frances Houghton/Annabel Vernon (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:26.383. Germany 1 6:28.554. Poland 6:32.005. Italy 6:37.766. Switzerland 6:41.16 ADAPTIVES MEN MIXED SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================TV COVERAGE OF ROWING WORLD CUPS THIS SEASON BBC TV Sport is broadcasting rowing at thesetimes this season: World Cup 1 Munich, Germany Sunday 29 May 10.00 – 13.15 Live on the Red Button/online Monday 30 May13.00 – 14.30 Highlights Package BBC2 and on-lineand afterwards on the i-player World Cup 2 Hamburg, Germany Sunday 19 June 09.20 – 13.20 – Live on the red button/online12.30 – 13.45 – Highlights package on BBC2 and onlineand afterwards on i-player World Cup 3, Lucerne, Switzerland Sunday 10 July09.45 – 11.15 Live on the Red Button/online12.30 – 14.30 Red Button/Online Monday 11 July13.00 – 14.30 Highlights package on BBC2 and onlineand afterwards on the i-player SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================CREW LISTS GB ROWING TEAM CREW-LISTS2011 World Cup Regatta, Munich,Germany, 27 – 29 May 2011(listed bow to stroke plus cox) OPEN WOMEN Pair Helen Glover (Minerva Bath/Penzance/17.06.86)/Heather Stanning (Army RC/Lossiemouth/26.01.85) Coach: Robin Williams Eight Jo Cook (Leander Club/Sunbury-on-Thames/22.03.84)/Emily Taylor (Leander Club/Lincoln/28.06.87)Katie Solesbury (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.82)/Alison Knowles (Thames RC/Bournemouth/27.03.82)/Jessica Eddie (Univ of London BC/Durham/07.10.84)/Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.84)/Natasha Page (Gloucester RC/Hartpury/30.04.85)/Lindsey Maguire (Wallingford RC/Edinburgh/15.01.82)/Caroline O’Connor (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Ealing, London/25.04.83) Coach: Nick Strange Double scull Katherine Grainger (St. Andrew BC/Aberdeen/12.11.75)/Melanie Wilson (Imperial College BC/London/01.09.82)/ Coach: Paul Thompson Quadruple scull Annabel Vernon (Leander Club/Wadebridge/01.09.82)/Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC/Gloucester/28.02.82)/Frances Houghton (Leander Club/Oxford/19.09.80)/Debbie Flood (Leander Club/Guiseley/27.02.80) Coach: Ade Roberts Single scull Victoria Thornley (Leander Club/Wrexham/30.11.87) OPEN MEN Pair Pete Reed (Leander Club/Nailsworth, Glos/27.07.81)/Andrew Triggs Hodge (Molesey BC/Hebden, N. Yorks/03.03.79) Coach: Jürgen Grobler Four Matthew Langridge (Leander Club /Northwich/20.05.83)/Richard Egington (Leander Club/Knutsford/26.02.79)/Tom James (Molesey BC/Wrexham/11.03.84)/Alex Gregory (Leander Club /Wormington, Glos/11.03.84) Coach: John West Eight Alex Partridge (Leander Club /Alton, Hants/25.01.81)/Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell (Univ of London BC/Durham/13.04.88)/Cameron Nichol (Molesey BC/Glastonbury/26.06.87)/Will Satch (Leander/Henley-on-Thames/09.06.89)/Mohamed Sbihi (Molesey BC/Surbiton/27.03.88)/Greg Searle (Molesey BC/Marlow/20.03.72)/Tom Ransley (York City RC/Cambridge/06.09.85)/Daniel Ritchie (Leander Club/Herne Bay/06.01.87)/Phelan Hill (Leander Club/Bedford/21.07.79) Coach: Christian Felkel Single scull Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers School/Coleraine/09.05.83) Coach: Bill Barry Double scull Matthew Wells (Leander Club/Hexham, Northumberland/19.04.79)/Marcus Bateman (Leander Club/Torquay/16.09.82) Coach: Mark Earnshaw Quadruple scull Stephen Rowbotham (Leander Club/Winscombe, Somerset/11.11.81)/Tom Solesbury (Leander Club/Petts Wood, Kent/23.09.80)/Bill Lucas (London RC/Kingswear/13.09.87)/Sam Townsend (Reading Univ BC/Reading/26.11.85) Coach: Mark Banks LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN Double scull – Boat 1 Hester Goodsell (Imperial College BC/London/27.06.84)/Sophie Hosking (London RC/Wimbledon/25.01.86) Coach: Paul Reedy Double scull – Boat 2 Kathryn Twyman (OUWBC/Edmonton, Canada/29.03.87)Andrea Dennis (Imperial College BC/Oxford/03.01.82)/ Coach: Paul Reedy Single scull (U23) Katherine Copeland (Tees RC/Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees/01.12.90) Coach: James Harris LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Double scull Zac Purchase (Marlow RC/Tewkesbury/02.05.86)/Mark Hunter (Leander Club /Romford, Essex/01.07.78) Coach: Darren Whiter Four – Boat 1 Richard Chambers (Leander Club /Coleraine/10.06.85)/Paul Mattick (Leander Club /Frome, Somerset/25.04.78)/Rob Williams (London RC/Maidenhead/21.01.85)/Chris Bartley (Leander Club/Chester/02.02.84) Coach: Rob Morgan Four – Boat 2 (U23) John Preston (Reading Uni BC/Durham/16.04.89)/Jono Clegg (Leander/Maidenhead/14.07.89)/Will Fletcher (Durham Uni BC/Chester-le-Street/24.12.89)/Jamie Kirkwood (Imperial College BC/Newcastle/30.8.89) Coach: Rob Dauncey Pair – Boat 1 Chris Boddy (Leander Club /Stockton-on-Tees/16.11.87)/Adam Freeman-Pask (Imperial College BC/Windsor/19.06.85) Coach: Rob Morgan Pair – Boat 2 (U23) Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Coleraine/14.3.90)Kieren Emery (Leander Club/Newcastle/1.6.90) Coach: Pete Sheppard ADAPTIVES MEN Arms & shoulders single scull (ASM1x) Tom Aggar (Royal Docks RC/London/24.05.84) Coach: Tom Dyson Trunk & arms mixed double scull (TAMix2x) Nick Beighton (Guildford RC/Yateley/29.09.81)Sam Scowen (Dorney BC/Wokingham/29.10.87) Coach: Tom Dyson Legs, trunk & arms mixed coxed four (LTAMix4+) (Boat 1)Pamela Relph (Birmingham Uni BC/Aylesbury/14.11.89)Naomi Riches (Marlow RC/Harrow/15.06.83)David Smith (Reading Uni BC/Dunfermline/21.04.78)James Roe (Stratford upon Avon BC/ Stratford upon Avon/28.03.88)Lily van den Broecke (cox) (Headington School BC/Oxford/08.01.92) Coach: Mary McLachlan (Boat 2)Kelsie Gibson (Maidstone Invicta RC)Kate Jones (Imperial College BC/Eskdale Green, Cumbria/28.02.86)Luke Almond (Worcester RC/ Bromyard, Herefordshire/14.05.90)Ryan Chamberlain (Imperial College BC /Wandsworth, London/03.04.86)Rhiannon Jones (cox) (Ross RC/Hereford/16.09.87) Coach: Mary McLachlan MANAGEMENT & SUPPORT STAFF Performance: Team Manager & Performance Director: David TannerChief Coach Men: Jürgen GroblerChief Coach Women & Lightweights: Paul ThompsonAssistant Team Manager (Adaptives): Louise Kingsley Media/Admin/Logistics: Assistant Team Manager (admin): Maggie NettoSponsorship Liaison: Fran BullockResources Manager: Maurice HayesBoatman: John TetleyPress Officer: Caroline Searle SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================WORLD CUP SCHEDULE The first world cup of the season is taking placethis weekend (27-29 May) in Munich. Currently the keystages are timed as follows but this may changesubject to entry: Heats, repechages and quarter-finals 09.00 – 19.30 Friday 27 May Repechages and non-Olympic class semi-finals 09.30 – 10.00 Saturday 28 May Semi-finals Olympic Classes 13.30 – 16.15 Saturday 28 May FINALS (non-Olympic and Paralympic classes only) 16.30 – 19.00 Saturday 28 May FINALS (all Olympic classes) 11.00 – 14.00 Sunday 29 May (B finals: 09.30 – 10.10 Sunday 29 May). The next two world cups are: Hamburg, Germany, 17-19 JuneLucerne, Switzerland, 8-10 July SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================KEY DATES FOR 2011 This important season for the nation’s top rowersculminates in the World Championships andOlympic qualifying regatta: BLED, SLOVENIA, FROM AUGUST 28 – SEPTEMBER 4, 2011 Britain will seek to qualify boats into as many Olympicand Paralympic classes as possible here rather thanthrough the last-chance final qualifying regatta in Lucernefrom May 20-23, 2012. Meanwhile, here are some additional dates of note for theGB squad for the remainder of 2011: KEY DATES FOR YOUR 2011 DIARY 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 19Announcement of the World Championships Team 21-24World Rowing U23 Championships, Amsterdam, Netherlands 29-31Coupe de la Jeunesse, Linz, Austria AUGUST 4-7 World Rowing Junior Championships, Dorney Lake, Eton(this is also the Olympic test event) 28 – 4 September WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS, Bled, Slovenia SEPTEMBER 16-18European Rowing Championships, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 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