July 8, 2011 News British Rowing NewsBritish Rowing EventsRowing CommunityGB Rowing TeamIndoor RowingRowing & RegattaPartners#YourStoriesArchive Three more GB Rowing Team crews into the semi-finals in Lucerne GB Rowing Team Pete Reed and Andrew Triggs Hodge rowed to a comfortable victory in this afternoon’s world cup quarter-finals in Lucerne, Switzerland. The World men’s pair silver medallists cruised home at a low rating ahead of two German boats to progress to tomorrow’s semi-finals in 6:38.63 on the famous Rotsee.ADVERT The men’s pair field here is probably the biggest ever assembled for Lucerne and it is unusual for quarter-finals to take place in this boat category. So there was a sense from Hodge and Reed on the water this afternoon of conserving energy before the next round. Afterwards Reed and Hodge were quick to put this afternoon’s wins into perspective and to pay tribute to the opposition to come – including the Canadian pair of Scott Frandsen and Dave Calder who won a silver medal in Beijing as well as the more obvious World Champions, Eric Murray and Hamish Bond of New Zealand. “We know the Canadian pair well and we know that they are quick”, said Reed. But Hodge refused to be drawn into reading anything from this year’s world cup and Henley performances. ‘You can read everything in a lot of different ways”, he said. “So we won’t know until we get out there and race”. The British pair, gold medallists from Beijing in the men’s four, were also sanguine about potentially facing their great rivals from New Zealand as early as the semi-finals. “We won’t know until the draw is made and we’ve been through it all before here, in Munich last year and at the World Championships”, said Reed. Britain will also have a second crew in the semi-finals of the men’s pair tomorrow. Constantine Louloudis and George Nash showed they have what it takes at senior world cup level by taking third place in this afternoon’s quarter-finals on the Rotsee. The pair now go through to tomorrow’s semi-finals and whatever happens will now finish in the top twelve in the world. For a combination, already former world junior champions and aiming mainly at the World U23 Championships this year, it has been a successful senior world cup debut so far. Mark Hunter and Adam Freeman Pask are also safely through to the semi-finals of the lightweight men’s double scull after taking third place behind Canada and Portugal this afternoon. Olympic Champion Hunter is rowing here with Adam Freeman Pask as a substitute for Zac Purchase who is out on medical grounds. Earlier in the day British crews had won eight heats in a pleasing opening session performance. Even the men’s eight defeat to The Netherlands, if unexpected, was at least spectacular with just one hundredth separating the crews on the line – a difference almost too fine for the photo-finish camera to register. “It was very close and exciting. It was not the result we wanted but it’s good to get another race done and I guess we now get the chance to practice a few things again in the repechage”, said stroke Dan Ritchie afterwards. The morning’s session included a heat victory for world women’s double scull champions Katherine Grainger, 35, and Anna Watkins who were back to rowing competitively again for the first time since last Autumn’s World Championships in New Zealand. Staffordshire’s Watkins, 28, was particularly pleased to be racing again after a lay-off for injury which saw her miss the world cup inMunich in May. “It’s always a lot of fun to race. But we’ve had to work very hard in the past few weeks to make it feel like our boat again. Now it’s coming together and that feels very exciting”, said Watkins. GB Rowing Team Performance Director professed himself “very pleased” with a GB performance including wins from the world silver medal men’s and women’s pairs, the men’s open and lightweight fours, the women’s quadruple scull and the lightweight women’s double scull. Matt Wells and Marcus Bateman also won despite being hit in the warm-up area causing damage to their boat which caused the race to be rescheduled. Brothers Richard and Peter Chambers, from Coleraine, were racing together at world cup level for the first time today when younger brother Peter raced in the British world champion lightweight men’s four as a replacement for the injured Chris Bartley. Tomorrow’s programme for the GB crews starts in the afternoon with semi-finals from 12.30 to 14.24 (UK time) and repackages for the women’s and men’s eight at 14.30 and 15.00. *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 2011 SAMSUNG WORLD ROWING CUP(results for events featuring British crews only. Full results at www.worldrowing.com) MEN Pair Quarter-final 21. Nikolaos & Apostolos Gkountoulas (Greece) 6:36.182. Ramon di Clemente/Lawrence Brittain (South Africa) 6:37.433. George Nash and Constantine Louloudis (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 6:38.214. Vitomir Cavrlj/Alen Banovac (Croatia 1) 6:40.855. Sergei Babayev/Roman Veselkin (Russia) 6:47.646. Goran Todorovic/Nikola Stojic (Serbia 1) 7:34.83 Quarter-final 3 1. Pete Reed/Andrew Triggs Hodge (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:38.632. Maximilian Munski/Felix Drahotta (Germany 1) 6:39.453. Rene Bertram/Florian Eichner (Germany 2) 6:41.644. Justin Stangel/Thomas Peszek (USA 1) 6:44.945. Antonio Guzman/Jesus Gonzalez Alvarez (Spain) 6:46.256. Truls Albert/Jesus Gonzalez (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 6:38.63 LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Double scull Quarter-final 3 1. Douglas Vandor/Cameron Sylvester (Canada) 6:28.042. Pedro Fraga/Nuno Mendes (Portugal) 6:28.993. Adam Freeman-Pask/Mark Hunter (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:30.244. Joris Pijs/Bjorn van den Ende (Netherlands) 6:37.225. Oskar Russberg/Dennis Bernhardsson (Sweden) 6:37.236. Tomohiro Yaku/Daisaku Takeda (Japan) 6:42.78 SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================GB ROWING TEAM CREW-LISTS2011 World Cup Regatta, LucerneJuly 8-10, 2011(listed bow to stroke plus cox) QUARTER-FINALS OPEN WOMEN 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)/Alison Knowles (Thames RC/Bournemouth/27.03.82)/Jessica Eddie (Univ of London BC/Durham/07.10.84)/Victoria Thornley (Leander Club/Wrexham/30.11.87)/Natasha Page (Gloucester RC/Hartpury/30.04.85)/Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.84)/Katie Solesbury (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.82)/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 Anna Watkins (Leander Club/Leek, Staffs/13.02.83)/Katherine Grainger (St. Andrew BC/Aberdeen/12.11.75) Coach: Paul Thompson Quadruple scull Melanie Wilson (Imperial College BC/London/25.06.84)/Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC/Gloucester/28.02.82)/Annabel Vernon (Leander Club/Wadebridge/01.09.82)/Debbie Flood (Leander Club/Guiseley/27.02.80)/ Coach: Ade Roberts 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 Constantine Louloudis (Isis BC/London/15.09.91)/George Nash (Cambridge Uni BC/Guildford/02.10.89) 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)/James Foad (Molesey BC/Southampton/20.03.87)/Cameron Nichol (Molesey BC/Glastonbury/26.06.87)/Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell (Univ of London BC/Durham/13.04.88)/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 Spare: Tom Broadway Double scull Matthew Wells (Leander Club/Hexham, Northumberland/19.04.79)/Marcus Bateman (Leander Club/Torquay/16.09.82) Coach: Mark Earnshaw Quadruple scull Tom Solesbury (Leander Club/Petts Wood, Kent/23.09.80)/Stephen Rowbotham (Leander Club/Winscombe, Somerset/11.11.81)/Bill Lucas (London RC/Kingswear/13.09.87)/Sam Townsend (Reading Univ BC/Reading/26.11.85) Coach: Mark Banks LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN Double scull Hester Goodsell (Imperial College BC/London/27.06.84)/Sophie Hosking (London RC/Wimbledon/25.01.86) Coach: Paul Reedy LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Four Richard Chambers (Leander Club /Coleraine/10.06.85)/Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Coleraine/14.3.90)/Paul Mattick (Leander Club /Frome, Somerset/25.04.78)/Rob Williams (London RC/Maidenhead/21.01.85)/ Coach: Rob Morgan Double scull Adam Freeman-Pask (Imperial College BC/Windsor/19.06.85)/Mark Hunter (Leander Club /Romford, Essex/01.07.78) Coach: Darren Whiter SUPPORT STAFF Performance: Team Manager: David TannerChief Coach Men: Jürgen GroblerChief Coach Women & Lightweights: Paul Thompson Media/Admin/Logistics: Assistant Team Manager (admin): Jo BatesSponsorship Liaison: Fran BullockBoatman: John TetleyPress Officer: Caroline Searle SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================WORLD CUP SCHEDULE The final World Rowing Cup, sponsored by Samsung,of the 2011 season takes place in Lucerne, Switzerland, from8-10 July. Currently the key stages are timed as follows but this maybe subject to change after the entry and draw arecompleted and in the case of weather delays. Full schedule andupdates at www.worldrowing.com Semi-finals (non-Olympic classes only) 08.30 – 9.15 Saturday 9 July Repechages and semi-finals (Olympic classes) 13.30 – 16.00 Saturday 9 July FINALS (non Olympic classes) 16.06 – 17.50 Saturday 9 July B Finals (Olympic classes) 08.45 – 10.03 Sunday 10 July FINALS (Olympic classes) 10.22 – 14.40 Sunday 10 July SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================TV Coverage from Lucerne BBC TV Sport of the World Rowing Cup will be: 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=============================== ===============================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 JUNE 29- July 3Henley Royal Regatta JULY 8-10Rowing World Cup III, Lucerne, Switzerland 19Announcement of the GB 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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