Six GB Rowing Team crews into finals of World U23s
Six British crews won through to finals of the World U23 Championships in Amsterdam today with two more progressing to the semi-final stage.
Peter Chambers and Kieren Emery continued the impressive form in the lightweight men’s pair, which saw them win silver together at the first senior world cup of 2011 in Munich, and led home their semi-final on the Bosbaan.
They raced into an early lead and held on to it, finishing with room to spare ahead of opposing heat winners Italy and Hungary and ensuring their place in Saturday’s final.
British boats will also contest the finals of the men’s eight and coxed four and the women’s double and lightweight women’s quad this weekend after some sterling performances on Dutch water today – they will be joined by the women’s eight who have a straight final.
“We’ve had a good day with six crews now through to the finals and we’ve got a few more shots tomorrow,” said David Tanner, Performance Director for the GB Rowing Team. “I’m pleased with how it’s going”.
The men’s coxed four rowed an excellent race to overhaul the Australians and beat New Zealand to win their repechage while the lightweight women’s quad also took top spot after holding off a late challenge from Italy in another tight repechage.
James Coombes and Gavin Murty put their finish-line defeat by 0.07 seconds in the heats of the lightweight men’s double scull behind them with a solid performance to win their repechage and qualify for the semi-finals.
Jonathan Walton followed suit in the men’s single scull quarter-final with a good second-place finish, a length behind Germany with clear water over the rest of the field.
A photo finish was required in the women’s double scull repechage after the British and Norwegian boats raced across the line inseparable to the naked eye. Both crews qualified for the final but the psychological boost of victory went to Rachel Gamble-Flint and Sarah Cowburn by two-hundredths of a second.
The junior men’s eight narrowly missed out on automatic qualification in their heat yesterday and had another exciting race on the Bosbaan to reach Sunday’s final, finishing just behind Germany in their repechage after winning their duel with Holland for second.
The GB women’s eight took part in a preliminary race today to decide lanes for the final. They were fifth.
The lightweight men’s quadruple scull were disappointed to be just off the pace in fourth in a tight semi-final and will contest the ‘B’ final on Saturday morning.
The men’s quad finished fifth in their repechage and will contest the ‘C’ final tomorrow.
Saturday’s racing has been rescheduled due to the weather and will feature semi-finals from 8am to 9:54am UK time and ‘A’ Finals 10am to 11:24pm UK time.
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RESULTS
(Races featuring GB crews only. Full results at
www.worldrowing.com)
REPECHAGES, QUARTERS AND SEMI-FINALS
OPEN
WOMEN
EIght
1. New Zealand 6:16.65
2. Canada 6:19.65
3. USA 6:22.41
4. Germany 6:23.56
5. Lottie Howard-Merrill/Brianna Stubbs/Caragh McMurtry/Olivia Oakes/
MichelleVezie/Katherine Douglas/Karen Bennett/Olivia Carnegie-Brown/
Charlotte Jackson (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:31.20
6. Holland Did Not Start
Double scull
1. Rachel Gamble-Flint/Sarah Cowburn (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:13.41
2. Norway 7:13.43
3. Russia 7:15.55
4. France 7:21.83
5. USA 7:30.54
6. Hungary 7:42.14
MEN
Eight
1. Germany 5:37.97
2. George Rossiter/Matthew Tarrant/Thomas Clark/Oliver Staite/William Satch/
Andrew A Holmes/Michael Evans/Patrick Lapage/Max Gander (GREAT
BRITAIN) 5:40.17
3. Holland 5:42.20
4. Poland 5:43.50
5. Australia 5:44.93
6. Italy 5:50.25
Single scull
1. Germany 7:08.99
2. Jonathan Walton (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:11.09
3. Hungary 7:16.19
4. Denmark 7:19.00
5. Egypt 7:22.71
6. Finland 7:24.01
Quadruple Scull
1. Switzerland 5:56.38
2. Poland 5:56.58
3. New Zealand 5:57.29
4. Australia 5:59.16
5. Oliver Lee/Stewart Innes/Jack Hockley/John Collins (GREAT BRITAIN)
6:01.49
6. Lithuania 6:07.64
Coxed four
1. Henry Gooder/Philip Congdon/James Scott/Ertan Haxine/Franz Imfeld (GREAT
BRITAIN) 6:19.47
2. New Zealand 6:21.40
3. Australia 6:23.53
4. Holland 6:25.63
5. Italy 6:26.67
6. Romania 6:30.64
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Single scull
1. Kat Copeland (GREAT BRITAIN)
Quadruple scull
1. Rebecca Humphreys/Christina Thoma/Eleanor Piggott/Charlotte Burgess
(GREAT BRITAIN) 6:54.32
2. Italy 6:55.32
3. France 6:56.36
4. USA 6:57.41
5. Japan 6:58.29
6. Australia 7:01.71
MEN
Pair
1. Peter Chambers/Kieren Emery (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:38.02
2. Italy 6:39.95
3. Hungary 6:42.17
4. USA 6:45.19
5. Denmark 6:54.50
6. Argentina 6:58.08
Double scull
1. James Coombes/Gavin Murty (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:39.01
2. Portugal 6:42.35
3. Russia 6:43.59
4. Iraq 6:56.96
5. Tunisia 7:08.95
Quadruple scull
1. Denmark 5:54.81
2. Switzerland 5:56.16
3. Poland 5:57.97
4. Wilf Kimberley/Zak Lee-Green/Michael Mottram/Joshua Butler (GREAT
BRITAIN) 6:00.23
5. Ireland 6:04.17
6. Austria 6:08.25
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U23 GB ROWING TEAM CREW-LISTS
2011 World Rowing U23 Championships, Amsterdam
July 20-24, 2011
(listed bow to stroke plus cox)
(CLUB/HOME TOWN/DATE OF BIRTH)
OPEN
WOMEN
Eight
Lottie Howard-Merrill (Imperial College BC/Oxford/15.11.1989)/
Brianna Stubbs (Oxford Uni Women’s BC/Poole/13.07.1991)/
Caragh McMurtry (Reading Uni BC/Southampton/22.08.1991)/
Olivia Oakes (Uni of London BC/Warrington/21.04.1990)/
Michelle Vezie (Molesey BC & Stanford Uni/London/10.07.1989)/
Katherine Douglas (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Edinburgh/03.08.1989)/
Karen Bennett (Molesey BC/Edinburgh/05.02.1989)/
Olivia Carnegie-Brown (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Reading/28.03.1991)/
Charlotte Jackson (cox) (Durham Uni BC/West Byfleet/27.01.1991)
Coach: Neasa Folan
Double Scull
Rachel Gamble-Flint (Leander Club/Darlington/13.09.1991)
Sarah Cowburn (Durham University BC/Redditch/01.02.1989)
Coach: Jane Hall
MEN
Pair
George Nash (Cambridge Uni BC/Guildford/02.10.1989)/
Constantine Louloudis (Oxford Uni BC/Bayswater, London/15.09.1991)
Coach: Paul Stannard
Eight
Oliver Staite (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Malvern/09.02.1991)/
Thomas Clark (Leander Club/Worcester/28.01.1989)/
Matthew Tarrant (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Shepperton/11.07.1990)/
William Satch (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/09.06.1989)/
Patrick Lapage (Harvard Uni BC/Shrewsbury/16.07.1990)/
Michael Evans (Princeton Uni/Ramsbury, Wiltshire/23.08.1990)/
Andrew Holmes (Harvard Uni BC/Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire/04.10.1991)/
George Rossiter (Newcastle Uni BC/Newbury) /
Maximilian Gander (cox) (Uni of London BC/Oxford)
Coach: Henry Bailhache-Webb
Coxed Four
Henry Goodier (Imperial College BC/Putney/01.10.1989)/
Philip Congdon (Durham Uni BC/Bury St Edmunds/06.06.1989)/
James Scott (UC Berkeley/Burwell, Cambridgeshire/26.09.1991)/
Ertan Hazine (Uni of London/Maidenhead/01.08.1991)/
Franz Imfeld (cox) (Durham Uni BC/Chester/24.02.1991)
Coach: Chris Collerton
Single Scull
Jonathan Walton (Loughborough Students RC/Leicester/06.10.1990)
Coach: Howard Marsh
Quadruple Scull
Oliver Lee (Agecroft RC/Stockport/07.03.1991)/
Stewart Innes (Durham Uni BC/Henley/20.05.1991)/
John Collins (Leander Club/Whitton, Middlesex/24.01.1989)/
Jack Hockley (Leander Club/Marlow/05.10.1989)
Coach: Hamish Burrell
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Single Scull
Katherine Copeland (Tees RC/Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees/01.12.1990)
Coach: James Harris
Quadruple Scull
Rebecca Humphreys (Uni of London BC/Lisbellaw, Eniskillen/22.03.1989)/
Christina Thomas (Oxford Brookes Uni BC/Staines/19.05.1991)/
Eleanor Piggott (Wallingford RC/Olney, Bucks/16.05.1991)/
Charlotte Burgess (Reading Uni BC/Swineshead, Bedford/25.06.1990)
Coach: Miles Forbes-Thomas
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
Jonathan Clegg (Leander Club/Maidenhead/14.07.1989)/
John Preston (Leander Club/Durham/16.04.1989)/
William Fletcher (Durham Uni BC/ Chester-le-Street/24.12.1989)/
Jamie Kirkwood (Imperial College BC/Newcastle-upon-Tyne/30.08.1989)
Coach: Rob Dauncey
Double Scull
James Coombes (Hereford RC/Hereford/22.06.1990)/
Gavin Murty (Clydesdale ARC/Glasgow/17.04.1992)
Coach: Sean Leyland
Quadruple Scull
Wilf Kimberley (Imperial College BC/London/15.07.1992)/
Zak Lee-Green (Agecroft RC/Cardiff/05.02.1991)/
Michael Mottram (Reading Uni BC/Stoke Mandeville/08.06.1990)/
Joshua Butler (Imperial College BC/Riseley, Bedford/11.03.1989)
Coach: Don McLachlan
MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT STAFF
Team Manager: Steve Gunn
Chief Coach: Peter Sheppard
Equipment Manager: Andy Knee-Robinson
Doctor: Michelle Earby
Physio: Abbie Turner
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COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Saturday July 23 – Semis/B,C,D,E Finals
Sunday July 24 – A,B Finals
For the full competition schedule go to www.amsterdamrowing.com
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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
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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