Thornley to race single for GB Rowing Team at Worlds
Victoria Thornley will race in the women’s single scull at this month’s World Championships in Amsterdam (24-31 August) because her double scull partner and twice Olympic silver medallist, Frances Houghton, has missed out on the race to be fit in time.
Houghton has been struggling with a virus-type condition and is not ready to race.
She said: “This is a hugely disappointing end to what – having won National Trials in December and finished second in April and set many PBs on and off the water – has been a very good year for me.
“I have been looking forward to preparing and racing in the double with Vicky this year and will greatly miss the opportunity to do that. Since joining the GB Rowing Team as a junior in 1995 this is the first time that I have missed a World Championships due to illness (or injury), so it is a very strange feeling.
“I wish the whole squad – men, women, lightweight, heavyweight, coaches, physios and support staff, the very best in Amsterdam”.
Thornley, winner of the GB Rowing Team Trials in April, is no stranger to the single scull.
She reached the final of last month’s world cup in Lucerne after Houghton was forced to withdraw and was Britain’s single sculler at the World Championships in Korea last month, finishing 7th.
By contrast, Lucinda Gooderham is back to full fitness and takes her place back in the women’s quadruple scull. Olivia Carnegie Brown raced in her stead in Lucerne but is now part of a group of nine rowers still vying for eight seats in the women’s eight which will be coxed in Amsterdam by Zoe de Toledo.
Adam Freeman-Pask, named in the lightweight single scull for Amsterdam, has been forced to withdraw through injury. Zak Lee Green, World U23 lightweight single scull finalist in 2013 and 9th at the Aiguebelette World Cup, has been named as spare for the lightweight men’s squad.
Elsewhere, the only other change has been made to the men’s eight with a crew reshuffle that sees 2012 Olympic bronze medal stroke Constantine Louloudis move into the stroke seat.
GB Rowing Team Performance Director Sir David Tanner and his Chief Coaches Jurgen Grobler and Paul Thompson will continue to fine-tune the line-ups at the final pre-worlds training camps which are currently taking place in Europe. Entry lists will be finalised by World Rowing’s governing body FISA next week.
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CREW LISTS
World Rowing Championships 2014
(listed bow to stroke with cox)
Amsterdam, 24-31 August
OPEN
WOMEN
Pair
Helen Glover (Minerva Bath RC/Penzance/17.06.86)/
Heather Stanning (Army RC/Lossiemouth/26.01.85)
Coaches: Robin Williams & Paul Thompson
Eight (cox + eight from nine rowers to be selected from):
Rosamund Bradbury (Leander Club/Banstead/17.12.88)/
Olivia Carnegie-Brown (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Oxford/28.03.91)/
Jessica Eddie (London RC/Durham/07.10.84)/
Donna Etiebet (Sport Imperial BC/London/29.04.86)/
Katie Greves (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.82)/
Zoe Lee (Imperial College BC/Richmond, N. Yorks/15.12.85)/
Caragh McMurtry (Reading Univ BC/Southampton/22.08.91)/
Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.84)/
Polly Swann (Leander Club/Edinburgh/15.06.88)/
Zoe de Toledo (cox) (Leander Club/London/17.07.87)
Coach: James Harris
Single scull
Victoria Thornley (Leander Club/Wrexham/30.11.87)
Coach: Paul Thompson
Quadruple scull
Kristina Stiller (Tees RC/Yarm/23.06.87)/
Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC/Gloucester/28.12.82)/
Victoria Meyer-Laker (Leander Club/Premnay/18.03.88)/
Lucinda Gooderham (Leander Club/Norfolk/09.06.84)
Coach: Nick Strange
Open women spares:
Monica Relph (Leander Club/Cambridge/15.01.88)/
+ 1 from Eight group
Jessica Leyden (Hollingworth Lake RC/Burnley/22.02.95)
OPEN
MEN
Pair
James Foad (Molesey BC/Southampton/20.03.87)/
Matt Langridge (Leander Club/Northwich/20.05.83)
Coach: Rob Dauncey
Coxed Pair
Alan Sinclair (Leander Club/Inverness/16.10.85)/
Scott Durant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lancaster/12.02.88/
Henry Fieldman (cox) (Molesey BC/London/25.11.88
Coach: John West
Four
Alex Gregory (Leander Club/Wormington/11.03.84)/
Mohamed Sbihi (Molesey BC/Surbiton/27.03.88)/
George Nash (Molesey BC/Guildford/10.02.89)/
Andrew Triggs Hodge (Molesey BC/Hebden, N. Yorks/03.03.79)
Coach: Jurgen Grobler
Eight
Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell (Univ of London BC/Durham/13.04.88)/
Matthew Tarrant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Shepperton/11.07.90)/
Will Satch (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/09.06.89)/
Matthew Gotrel (Leander Club/Chipping Campden/01.03.89)/
Pete Reed (Leander Club/Nailsworth, Glos/27.07.81)/
Paul Bennett (Univ of London BC/Leeds/16.12.88)/
Tom Ransley (Leander Club/Cambridge/06.09.85)/
Constantine Louloudis (OUBC, London, 15/09/91)/
Phelan Hill (cox) (Leander Club/Putney & Bedford/21.07.79)
Coaches: Christian Felkel & Jurgen Grobler
Double scull
John Collins (Leander Club/Twickenham/24.01.89)/
Jonathan Walton (Leander Club/Leicester/06.10.90)
Coach: Mark Banks
Quadruple scull
Graeme Thomas (Agecroft RC/Preston/08.11.88)/
Sam Townsend (Reading Univ BC/Reading/26.11.85)/
Charles Cousins (Leander Club/Willingham/13.12.88)/
Peter Lambert (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/03.12.86)
Coach: Paul Stannard
Open men’s spares
Oliver Cook (Univ of London BC/Windsor/05.06.90)/
Phil Congdon (Molesey BC/Bury St Edmunds/06.06.89)
Jack Beaumont (Leander Club/Maidenhead/21.11.93)
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Double scull
Imogen Walsh (London RC/Inverness/17.01.84)/
Kat Copeland (Tees RC/Ashington/01.12.90)
Coach: Paul Reedy
Quadruple scull
Ruth Walczak ((Molesey BC/Rochdale/15.09.88)/
Eleanor Piggott (Wallingford RC/Olney/16.05.91)/
Brianna Stubbs (Wallingford RC/Headington/13.07.91)/
Charlotte Taylor (Putney Town RC/Bedford/14.08.85)
Coach: Tom Evens
MEN
Pair
Jonathan Clegg (Leander Club/Maidenhead/14.07.89)/
Sam Scrimgeour (Imperial College BC/Kirriemuir/28.01.88)
Coach: Rob Morgan
Four
Mark Aldred (London RC/London/18.04.87)/
Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Coleraine/14.03.90)/
Richard Chambers (Leander Club/Coleraine/10.06.85)/
Chris Bartley (Leander Club/Chester/02.02.84)
Coach: Rob Morgan
Lightweight men’s spare:
Zak Lee Green (Agecroft RC/Cardiff/05.02.91)
Double scull
William Fletcher (Leander Club/Chester-le-Street/24.12.89)/
Jamie Kirkwood (Leander Club/Creswell/30.08.89)
Coach: Darren Whiter
PARA SQUAD
Arms & Shoulders Men’s Single Scull
Tom Aggar (Royal Docks RC/Maidenhead/24.05.84)
Coach: Nick Baker
Arms & Shoulders Women’s Single Scull
Rachel Morris (Guildford RC/Farnham/25.04.70)
Coach: Nick Baker
Legs-Trunk -Arms Mixed Coxed Four
Grace Clough (Nottingham RC/Sheffield/ 21.06.91)/
Pamela Relph (Leander Club/Aylesbury/14.11.89)/
Dan Brown (Upper Thames RC/Reading/29.11.82)
James Fox (Univ of London/Peterborough/02.05.92)/
Oliver James (cox) (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/05.10.90)
Coach: Tom Dyson
MANAGEMENT AND TEAM SUPPORT
Performance
Sir David Tanner, Performance Director / Team Manager
Jürgen Grobler, Chief Coach Men
Paul Thompson, Chief Coach Women & Lightweights
Louise Kingsley, ATM – Para
Medical & Science
Ann Redgrave, Doctor
Liz Arnold, Physiotherapist
Roz Brawn, Physiotherapist
Sally Brown, Physiotherapist
Pat Dunleavy, Physiotherapist
Mark Homer, Physiologist
Media & Logistics
Maggie Netto, ATM – Admin
Maurice Hayes, ATM – Resources
John Tetley, Boatman
Caroline Searle, Press Officer
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THE SEASON AHEAD
GB Rowing Team Diary Dates for 2014
July
23-27
World U23 Championships, Varese, Italy
August
6-10
World Junior Championships, Hamburg, Germany
16-28
Youth Olympic Games, Nanjing, China
24–31
World Championships, Amsterdam
September
13-14
FISU World University Championships, Gravelines, France (U23s only)
October
18-19
British Championships – GB Rowing Team participation
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