August 9, 2011 News British Rowing NewsBritish Rowing EventsRowing CommunityGB Rowing TeamCompetitions and ClubsIndoor RowingPartners#YourStoriesArchive Finishing touches added to GB Rowing Team for World Championships GB Rowing Team The finishing touches have been made to the GB Rowing Team for this year’s World Championships which is also the Olympic and Paralympic qualifying regatta. Britain has decided to continue with the women’ s quadruple scull combination which took silver at the world cup finals last month. This means that Debbie Flood, Beth Rodford, Annie Vernon and Mel Wilson, coached by Ade Roberts, will race at the event in Bled, Slovenia, from August 28 – September 4 with Germany and the Ukraine amongst the top contenders.ADVERT Frances Houghton, a world champion with Vernon, Rodford and Flood in New Zealand last Autumn can now continue her comeback from injury to top racing form in the single scull in Bled. The women’s eight, coached by Atlanta Olympian Nick Strange, has also been named today as Alison Knowles, Jo Cook, Jess Eddie, Lindsey Maguire, Natasha Page, Louisa Reeve, Katie Solesbury, Vicky Thornley and Caroline O’Connor at cox. This means that the line-up is almost identical – with Solesbury replacing Olivia Whitlam – to the crew which finished fourth in last year’s World Championships in a tight finish with the Dutch and in a race won by the USA. Ro Bradbury and Emily Taylor will travel to Bled as reserves for the women’s team. Constantine Louloudis, George Nash and Tom Broadway will play a similar role for the men. Broadway won World silver in the men’s eight last season whilst Nash and Louloudis took World U23 men’s pair gold in Amsterdam last month, after earlier featuring in the top seven at the world cup finals. Today’s announcement means that the 68-rower GB team will field boats in all Olympic classes – five women’s, three lightweight and six men’s – and three of the four Paralympic classes, all seeking qualification for 2012. The team includes three international class lightweight boats, who will double up as reserves for their Olympic class counterparts if needed, and five non-racing reserves for the Open weight classes. Late last month, Katherine Copeland, Kieren Emery and Peter Chambers were called up to the team for Bled after their gold medal performances this at the World U23 Championships in Amsterdam. Copeland will race the lightweight women’s single whilst Emery and Chambers will contest the lightweight men’s pair “These rowers have been selected on the basis of their excellent results over the weekend. They showed that they have the ability to perform when it matters”, said GB Rowing Team Performance Director David Tanner at the time. Copeland, 20 from Tees RC, will be joined in Bled by her coach James Harris whilst Peter Sheppard will now be there to coach Emery, 21, from Newcastle, and Chambers, 21, from Coleraine. Chambers, of course, substituted into the lightweight men’s four at the senior world cup in Lucerne earlier this month and took gold there. He and Emery were also world cup silver medallists in Munich in May – an event at which Copeland also took a silver. This year the World Championships double as the main Olympic and Paralympic qualifying regatta. *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=============================== ===============================GB ROWING TEAM CREW-LISTS2011 World Rowing Championships, sponsored by SamsungAugust 28 – September 4, 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 Alison Knowles (Thames RC/Bournemouth/27.03.82)/Jo Cook (Leander Club/Sunbury-on-Thames/22.03.84)/Jessica Eddie (Univ of London BC/Durham/07.10.84)/Lindsey Maguire (Wallingford RC/Edinburgh/15.01.82)/Natasha Page (Gloucester RC/Hartpury/30.04.85)/Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.84)/Katie Solesbury (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.82)/Victoria Thornley (Leander Club/Wrexham/30.11.87)/Caroline O’Connor (cox) (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Ealing, London/25.04.83) Coach: Nick Strange Single scull Frances Houghton (Leander/Oxford/19.09.80) Coach: TBC 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 Debbie Flood (Leander Club/Guiseley/27.02.80)/Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC/Gloucester/28.02.82)/Annabel Vernon (Leander Club/Wadebridge/01.09.82)/Melanie Wilson (Imperial College BC/London/25.06.84)/ Coach: Ade Roberts RESERVES Ro Bradbury (Leander/Banstead, Surrey/17.12.88)Emily Taylor (Leander/Lincoln/28.06.87) 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)/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 (cox) (Leander Club/Bedford/21.07.79) Coach: Christian Felkel Single scull Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers/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 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 RESERVES Tom Broadway (Leander Club/Newport Pagnell/21.08.82)Constantine Louloudis (Isis BC/London/15.09.91)/George Nash (Cambridge Uni BC/Guildford/02.10.89) LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN Single scull Katherine Copeland (Tees RC/Ingelby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees/01.12.90) Coach: James Harris Double scull Hester Goodsell (Imperial College BC/London/27.06.84)/Sophie Hosking (London RC/Wimbledon/25.01.86) Coach: Paul Reedy Quadruple scull Steph Cullen (London RC/Bury, Lancs/27.11.80)/Imogen Walsh (London RC/Inverness/17.01.84)/Kathryn Twyman (OUWBC/Edmonton, Canada/29.03.87)/Andrea Dennis (Imperial College BC/Oxford/03.01.82)/ Coach: Ben Reed LIGHTWEIGHT MEN Pair Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Coleraine/14.03.90)/Kieren Emery (Leander Club/Newcastle-upon-Tyne/01.06.1990) Coach: Peter Sheppard Four Richard Chambers (Leander Club /Coleraine/10.06.85)/Chris Bartley (Leander/Wrexham/02.02.84)/Paul Mattick (Leander Club /Frome, Somerset/25.04.78)/Rob Williams (London RC/Maidenhead/21.01.85)/ Coach: Rob Morgan Single scull Adam Freeman-Pask (Imperial College BC/Windsor/19.06.85) Coach: Darren Whiter Double scullZac Purchase (Marlow RC/Tewkesbury/02.05.86)/Mark Hunter (Leander Club /Romford, Essex/01.07.78) Coach: Darren Whiter 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+) Pamela Relph (Birmingham Uni BC/Aylesbury/14.11.89)/Naomi Riches (Marlow RC/Harrow/15.06.83)/James Roe (Stratford upon Avon BC/ Stratford upon Avon/28.03.88)/David Smith (Reading Uni BC/Dunfermline/21.04.78)/Lily van den Broecke (cox) (Headington School BC/Oxford/08.01.92) Coach: Mary McLachlan SUPPORT STAFF Performance: Team Manager: David TannerChief Coach Men: Jürgen GroblerChief Coach Women & Lightweights: Paul ThompsonAssistant Team Manager (Adaptive): Louise Kingsley Medical & Sports Science: Doctor: Ann RedgraveLead Physio: Mark EdgarPhysios: Liz Arnold, Sally BrownPsychologist: Chris ShambrookPhysiologists: Craig WilliamsNutritionist: Wendy Martinson Media/Admin/Logistics: Assistant Team Manager (admin): Maggie NettoResources Manager: Maurice HayesBoatman: John TetleySponsorship Liaison: Fran BullockPress Officer: Caroline Searle SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================SCHEDULE OF EVENTS IN BLED Sunday 28 August- Morning Heats of the: Women’s pair, double and quadruple scull;Men’s eight, double and quadruple scull;Lightweight men’s single, pair and four. Sunday 28 August – Afternoon Heats of the: Women’s single;Men’s four and single scull;Lightweight men’s double scull Monday 29 August – morning Heats of the: Women’s eight, Men’s coxed pair;Lightweight women’s double and quadruple scullAdaptive women’s and men’s single sculls; mixed double and coxed four Repechages of the: Women’s pair and single and quadruple scull;Men’s four, eight and single and double scull;Lightweight men’s pair, four and single and double scull Tuesday 30 August – morning Repechages of the: Women’s doubleMen’s pair and quadLightweight women’s singleAdaptive men’s and women’s single, mixed double and coxed four Quarterfinals of the: Men’s doubleLIghtweight men’s four and single Wednesday 31 August – Morning Repechages of the: Women’s eight, Men’s coxed pairLightweight women’s double and quad and men’s quad Quarter-finals of the: Women’s singleMen’s four and singleLightweight men’s double scull Semi-finals of the: Women’s pair and quadruple scullMen’s eightLIghtweight men’s pairAdaptive women’s single scull Thursday 1 September – Morning Semi-finals of: Men’s double scullLightweight men’s four and single scullLIghtweight women’s single scullAdaptive men’s single scull B Finals of the: Women’s pair and quadruple scullMen’s eightLightweight men’s pair FINALS OF THE: Women’s pair and quadruple scullMen’s eightLightweight men’s pairAdaptive women’s single scull and mixed ID coxed four Friday 2 September – morning Semi-finals of the: Women’s doubleMen’s pair, single and quadruple scullAdaptive mixed double scull B-Finals of the: Women’s eightMen’s double and coxed pairLightweight men’s four and women’s and men’s single scullAdaptive men’s single scull FINALS of the: Women’s eightMen’s double and coxed pairLightweight men’s four, men’s and women’s single scullAdaptive men’s single scull Saturday 3 September – Morning Semi-finals of the: Women’s singleMen’s fourLightweight men’s and women’s double scullAdaptive mixed coxed four B Finals of the: Women’s double sculMen’s pair and single and quadruple scullMixed adaptive double scull FINALS of the: Women’s four and double scullMen’s pair and single and quadruple scullLightweight women’s quadruple scullMixed adaptive double scull Sunday 4 September B Finals of the: Women’s single scullMen’s fourLightweight men’s and women’s double scullAdaptive mixed coxed four FINALS of the: Women’s single scullMen’s fourLightweight men’s and women’s double scull, men’s quadruplescull and eightAdaptive mixed coxed four 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 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. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE=============================== ===============================CONTACT DETAILSFor media enquiries about The GB Rowing Teams please contact: Caroline Searle, Andy Sloan or Miranda Edwards on: T: (01225) 443998M: Caroline Searle (07831) 755351M: Andy Sloan (07714) 168391 e: [email protected] GB Rowing Team website www.gbrowingteam.org.uk – full biogs availablehere. 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