Three more GB Rowing Team crews into the semi-finals in Lucerne
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.
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 in
Munich 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.
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RESULTS
2011 SAMSUNG WORLD ROWING CUP
(results for events featuring British crews only. Full
results at www.worldrowing.com)
MEN
Pair
Quarter-final 2
1. Nikolaos & Apostolos Gkountoulas (Greece) 6:36.18
2. Ramon di Clemente/Lawrence Brittain (South Africa) 6:37.43
3. George Nash and Constantine Louloudis (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 6:38.21
4. Vitomir Cavrlj/Alen Banovac (Croatia 1) 6:40.85
5. Sergei Babayev/Roman Veselkin (Russia) 6:47.64
6. Goran Todorovic/Nikola Stojic (Serbia 1) 7:34.83
Quarter-final 3
1. Pete Reed/Andrew Triggs Hodge (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:38.63
2. Maximilian Munski/Felix Drahotta (Germany 1) 6:39.45
3. Rene Bertram/Florian Eichner (Germany 2) 6:41.64
4. Justin Stangel/Thomas Peszek (USA 1) 6:44.94
5. Antonio Guzman/Jesus Gonzalez Alvarez (Spain) 6:46.25
6. Truls Albert/Jesus Gonzalez (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 6:38.63
LIGHTWEIGHT
MEN
Double scull
Quarter-final 3
1. Douglas Vandor/Cameron Sylvester (Canada) 6:28.04
2. Pedro Fraga/Nuno Mendes (Portugal) 6:28.99
3. Adam Freeman-Pask/Mark Hunter (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:30.24
4. Joris Pijs/Bjorn van den Ende (Netherlands) 6:37.22
5. Oskar Russberg/Dennis Bernhardsson (Sweden) 6:37.23
6. Tomohiro Yaku/Daisaku Takeda (Japan) 6:42.78
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GB ROWING TEAM CREW-LISTS
2011 World Cup Regatta, Lucerne
July 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)
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 Tanner
Chief Coach Men: Jürgen Grobler
Chief Coach Women & Lightweights: Paul Thompson
Media/Admin/Logistics:
Assistant Team Manager (admin): Jo Bates
Sponsorship Liaison: Fran Bullock
Boatman: John Tetley
Press Officer: Caroline Searle
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WORLD CUP SCHEDULE
The final World Rowing Cup, sponsored by Samsung,
of the 2011 season takes place in Lucerne, Switzerland, from
8-10 July.
Currently the key stages are timed as follows but this may
be subject to change after the entry and draw are
completed and in the case of weather delays. Full schedule and
updates 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
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TV Coverage from Lucerne
BBC TV Sport of the World Rowing Cup will be:
World Cup 3, Lucerne, Switzerland
Sunday 10 July
09.45 – 11.15 Live on the Red Button/online
12.30 – 14.30 Red Button/Online
Monday 11 July
13.00 – 14.30 Highlights package on BBC2 and online
and afterwards on the i-player
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KEY DATES FOR 2011
This important season for the nation’s top rowers
culminates in the World Championships and
Olympic qualifying regatta:
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.
Meanwhile, here are some additional dates of note for the
GB squad for the remainder of 2011:
KEY DATES FOR YOUR 2011 DIARY
JUNE
29- July 3
Henley Royal Regatta
JULY
8-10
Rowing World Cup III, Lucerne, Switzerland
19
Announcement of the GB World Championships Team
21-24
World Rowing U23 Championships, Amsterdam, Netherlands
29-31
Coupe 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
16-18
European Rowing Championships, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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CONTACT DETAILS
For media enquiries about The GB Rowing Teams please contact:
Caroline Searle, Andy Sloan or Miranda Edwards on:
T: (01225) 443998
M: Caroline Searle (07831) 755351
M: Andy Sloan (07714) 168391
GB Rowing Team website www.gbrowingteam.org.uk – full biogs available
here.
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