Six more GB Rowing Team crews through to finals
The GB Rowing Team had another successful session this afternoon at the World Rowing Cup at Eton Dorney.
Six more crews will race in finals after five won their repechages or preliminary rounds, and the top men’s pair were second in their repechage to progress this afternoon.
That brings the total so far to 21 British finalist crews.
Meanwhile, Chris Boddy and Jamie Kirkwood are through to tomorrow’s semi-finals of the lightweight men’s single scull.
They join a Saturday race-card which now has a somewhat Northern Ireland flavour with the Chambers brothers, Richard and Peter, racing in the lightweight men’s double scull and Alan Campbell featuring in the men’s single scull.
Jonny Walton will race in the men’s single scull and has been drawn in the same semi as Campbell.
In the women’s single scull Melanie Wilson and Victoria Thornley are also drawn together in the semis.
The action tomorrow, though, kicks off with the finals of the Para-rowing classes. Tom Aggar will seek to get back on the top of the podium at a world level in the arms-shoulders single scull, an event in which he was unbeaten from 2007 until the Parlaympic Games last year. He will face his team-mate and training partner Andy Houghton in that final.
Britain has a new-look Paralympic-class mixed coxed four which contains two returning 2012 gold medallists, Naomi Riches and Pam Relph, but includes newcomers Oliver Hester, James Fox and cox Oli James. They have a head-to-head with the Ukraine.
Racing on Saturday starts at 9am not 9.30am.
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RACE REPORTS
Jamie Kirkwood led from the front in the men’s lightweight single sculls to secure a place in the semifinals, ahead of De Silva from Brazil who put in a good performance to finish second.
Reflecting on his second outing of the day, Kirkwood was pleased with how things went.
“Conditions were a bit nicer this afternoon, which made things a bit quicker and a bit nicer,” he said.
“I am just happy to make up for this morning. I was disappointed with that but I definitely had the toughest of the heats.
“I just wanted to go out with some intent there and make sure I put out my pace and showed them what I’ve got for tomorrow.”
In the second lightweight single sculls repechage, Chris Boddy also progressed to the semifinals after a tight battle with USA’s Hugh Adam in which he was edged out by less than half a length at the finish.
The two fought for the lead for much of the race, despite both knowing they had already done enough to secure qualification.
Katie Greves and Louisa Reeve led their race virtually from the start and finished strongly to secure their place in the A-final of the women’s pair.
Behind them, the Chinese crew gave Australia a sharp shock as they came back in the final 500m to take second place.
Speaking at the end of a busy day, Greves was happy with the form she and Reeve showed in the afternoon session.
“It’s a bit of a relief, really,” she said. “We didn’t row our best this morning and we had a bit of a moment in the last 100m, so this morning was very frustrating.”
“It’s not how we’ve been rowing in training, but this afternoon we led from the first stroke and it was pretty straight-forward, which is quite reassuring.”
In the men’s pair, the two competing British crews were forced to vie with each other for the second of two places up for grabs in the A-final after Romania established a commanding lead early on.
In the end, it was Ertan Hazine and James Cook who took the second spot, forcing Hudspith and Bennett to contest the B-final on Saturday.
After the race, Hazine and Cook were delighted to make it through.
“We are just happy to be here in our first senior international regatta and to make the A final is pretty awesome,” Hazine said.
Cook added: “We are really excited and to have another go against the Kiwis.”
Bill Lucas and Matt Langridge took an early lead in their men’s double repechage and won by a length from the Czech crew. China 1 were third and go into the B-final.
Speaking afterwards, Langridge said he hoped there was more to come from himself and Lucas in the final.
“We are doing some good training but we are not transferring that into the racing just yet,” he said. “That’s going to come with more racing. We’ve done lots of training, we haven’t done much racing.
“It’s taking me a while to get back [after the Olympics]. It’s a different discipline, different racing from an eight to a double. It’s quite a difference in speed and pacing but it’s slowly coming I think, it’s just going to take time.”
The British lightweight men’s four of Adam Freeman-Pask, William Fletcher, Jonathan Clegg and Chris Bartley held onto a half-length lead from 1000m in their repechage and beat Austria by 1.2 seconds. Poland and Japan join them in Sunday’s A-final.
After coming second to New Zealand in their heat this morning, Clegg said having to go through the repechage may not necessarily have been a bad thing.
“I think for a new crew it’s good to get as much racing as possible and normally in a World Cup we’d get three races anyway so it is good to have those extra races.
“I thought we dealt quite well with the recovery and we still have tomorrow off to make sure we are moving on from there. We learnt a few lessons.”
In the afternoon’s Para-rowing events, Britain’s Andrew Houghton led from the start of his arms- shoulders men’s single repechage to win by over a length from the Russian rower and joins Tom Aggar in the final. Also through are Estonia and Hungary.
In a preliminary race for lanes in the legs, trunks and arms mixed coxed four – an event in which Great Britain are defending Paralympic champions – Pamela Relph, Naomi Riches, James Fox, Oliver Hester and cox Olivier James took advantage of a sluggish start by Ukraine to lead by two lengths after just 100m
In a two horse race, with both crews into tomorrow’s final, Great Britain won by 17 seconds.
Relph said she was “disappointed” by the lack of competition in a post-Paralympic year, but that it didn’t affect how the crew approached the race.
“We look to win every race we enter but there are always race tactics to consider based on how the racing is going but we always approach every race to win and with the right mentality to go in head first.”
She added: “We are looking forward to the final tomorrow morning, hopefully some quick conditions and the support of a fantastic home crowd.”
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RESULTS
Events featuring GB crews only. Full results at www.worldrowing.com
HEATS
OPEN
WOMEN
Pair
Heat 1 (2 to final, rest to rep)
1. Kayla Pratt/Rebecca Scown (New Zealand) 7:12.60
2. Kerstin Hartmann/Marlene Sinnig (Germany) 7:14.82
3. Katie Greves/Louisa Reeve (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 7:17.31
4. Zhang Jiaying/Ding Yanjie (China 2) 7:30.76
5. Liu Shundi/Yang Meng (China 1) 7:56.01
Heat 2 (2 to final, rest to rep)
1. Helen Glover/Polly Swann (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 7:13.83
2. Jess Eddie/Olivia Carnegie-Brown (GREAT BRITAIN 3) 7:18.88
3. Tess Gerrand/Katrina Bateman (Australia) 7:22.00
4. Jeon Seoyeong/Kim Seo Hee (Korea) 7:37.00
Single scull
Heat 1 (three to semi, rest to rep)
1. Emma Twigg (New Zealand) 7:37.09
2. Julia LIer (Germany 1) 7:39.95
3. Melanie Wilson (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 7;45.13
4. Kaisa Pajusalu (Estonia) 7:55.29
5. Bianca Miarka (Brazil) 8:07.04
Heat 2 (three to semi, rest to rep)
1. Magdalena Lobnig (Austria) 7:36.73
2. Victoria Thornley (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 7:39.63
3. Frida Svensson (Sweden) 7:41.89
4. Tale Gjoertz (Norway) 7:46.89
Double scull
Heat 1 (2 to final, rest to rep)
1. Lisa Schmidla/Marieke Adams (Germany) 7:01.41
2. Mette Petersen/Lisbet Jakobsen (Denmark) 7:02.46
3. Ulla Varvio/Eeva Karppinen (Finland) 7:14.45
4. Pan Dandan/Wang Yanqing (China 3) 7:18.31
5. Ji Mengke/Zhang Ling (China 1) 7:25.97
Heat 2 (2 to final, rest to rep)
1. Frances Houghton/Victoria Meyer-Laker (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:59.96
2. Xu Dongxiang/Pan Feihong (China 2) 7:03.91
3. Monika Dukarska/Leonora Kennedy (Ireland) 7:15.68
4. Kim Arum/Kim Seulgi (Korea) 7:18.48
Preliminary race (all into final)
1. Germany 6:17.96
2. Poland 6:19.97
3. Austria 6:23.51
4. Caragh McMurtry/Monica Relph/Rosamund Bradbury/Kristina Stiller (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 6:30.43
5. Katherine Douglas/Zoe Lee/Sarah Cowburn/Beth Rodford (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:32.14
6. China 6:53.79
MEN
Pair
Heat 1 (1 to final, rest to rep)
1. Wojciech Gutorski/Jaroslaw Godek (Poland) 6:44.08
2. Ionel Strungaru/Florin Curuea (Romania 1) 6:46.19
3. Maruis-Vasile Cozmuc/Taoder/Andrei Gontaru (Romania 2) 6:46.81
4. Rodrigo Murillo/Joaquin Iwan (Argentina) 6:49.67
5. Arnaud Petit Jean/Valentin Onfroy (France) 6:51.22
6. Zheng Xiaoyun/Zhang Panpan (China 2) 6:52.53
Heat 2 (1 to final, rest to rep)
1. Eric Murray/Hamish Bond (New Zealand) 6:26.33
2. Wu Lin/Zheng Xiaolong (China 1) 6:44.64
3. Ertan Hazine/James Cook (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 6:45.37
4. Karl Hudspith/Paul Bennett (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 6:51.68
5. Luka Dordevic/Igor Lucic (Azerbajan) 7:06.32
Four
Heat 2 (1 to final, rest to rep)
1. Alan Sinclair/Nathaniel Reilly O’Donnell/Scott Durrant/Matthew Tarrant (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:00.45
2. New Zealand 6:04.03
3. China 6:20.29
Eight
1. France 5:32.10
2 Poland 5:32.19
3. Oliver Cook/Dan Ritchie/Tom Ransley/James Foad/Moe Sbihi/William Satch/Pete Reed/Andrew Triggs Hodge/Phelan Hill (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:35.49
4. Matthew Gotrel/James Edwards/Nick Middleton/Philip Congdon/Colin Williamson/John Collins/Mason Durant/Lance Tredell/Henry Fieldman (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:36.01
Single scull
Heat 1 (3 to semi, rest to rep)
1. Ondrej Synek (Czech Republic) 6:55.10
2. Georgi Bozhilov (Bulgaria) 6:56.30
3. Jonathan Walton (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:56.66
4. John Graves (USA) 7:03.06
5. Evgheni Sokirka (Moldova) 7:31.70
Heat 3 (3 to semi, rest to rep)
1. Alan Campbell (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:07.03
2. Oleg Gonorovski (Israel 2) 7:08.43
3. Joseph Sullivan (New Zealand 2) 7:15.29
4. Lee Seonsoo (Korea) 7:25.90
Double scull
Heat 2 (1 to final, rest to rep)
1. Eric Knittel/Stephan Kreuger (Germany) 6:22.54
2. Bill Lucas/Matt Langridge (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:29.19
3. Jemej Markovic/Gasper Fistravec (Slovenia) 6;32.55
4. Juho Karpinnen/Robert Ven (Finland) 6:29.19
5. Jan Andrle/Michal Plocek (Czech Republic) 6:35.95
6. Zang Ha/Chen Tianyi (China 1) 6:44.25
Quadruple scull
1. Graeme Thomas/Sam Townsend/Charles Cousins/Peter Lambert (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:50.55
2. Australia 5:53.69
3. New Zealand 5:56.66
4. Czech Republic 5:59.98
5. Poland 6:02.49
LIGHTWEIGHTS
WOMEN
Single scull
Heat 2 (2 to final, rest to rep)
1. Fabiana Beltrame (Brazil) 7:54.85
2. Ruth Walczak (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:59.13
3. Claire Lambe (Ireland) 8:07.80
4. Gabriela Mosqueira (Paraguay) 8:29.68
5. Tai Ho Yan (Hong Kong 2) 8:34.62
Double scull
Heat 1 (2 to final, rest to rep)
1. Kathryn Twyman/Imogen Walsh (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 7:02.16
2. Brianna Stubbs/Eleanor Piggott (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 7:07.69
3. Katarzyna Welna/Weronika Deresz Weronika (Poland) 7:19.33
4. Ayami Oishi/Atsumi Fukumoto (Japan 2) 7:21.67
5. Ng Wing Hei/Lee Yuen Yin (Hong Kong) 7:47.54
MEN
Pair
Preliminary race
1. Sam Scrimgeour/Mark Aldred (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 6:42.21
2. Matthew Bedford/Wilf Kimberley (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 6:43.50
3. Michael Hager/Markus Lemp (Austria) 6:54.20
4. Hikaru Endo/Kosuke Mitsuoka (Japan) 6:59.39
Four
Heat2 (1 to final, rest to rep)
1. New Zealand 6:00.88
2. Adam Freeman-Pask/William Fletcher/Jonathan Clegg/Chris Bartley (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:03.59
3. Brazil 6:18.45
4. Egypt 6:20.26
Single scull
Heat 1 (2 to semi, rest to rep)
1. Pedro Fraga (Portugal 1) 7:05.63
2. Konstantin Steinhuebel (Germany 2) 7:07.35
3. Jamie Kirkwood (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:08.33
4. Chris Boddy (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:16.29
5. Farid Saadov (Azerbajan) 7:44.04
6. Nadzrie Hamzah (Singapore) 7:54.32
Double scull
Heat 1 (3 to semi, rest to rep)
1. Richard & Peter Chambers (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:29.86
2. Vincent & Tycho Muda (Netherlands) 6:32.39
3. Tang Chiu Mang/Lok Kwan Hoi (Hong Kong 1) 6:42.91
4. Chow Kwong Wing/Kwan Ki Cheong (Hong Kong 2) 6:45.34
5. Jose Guipe Jimenez/Cesar Amaris/Fernandez (Venezuela) 6:54.40
PARA-ROWING
MEN
Arms-shoulders single sculls (ASM1x)
Heat 1 (One to final, rest to rep)
1. Aleksey Chuvashev (Russia 1) 5:07.37
2. Andrew Houghton (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:10.33
3. Vadim Morozov (Russia 2) 5:15.61
4. Thomas Kelly (Ireland) 6:31.23
Heat 2 (one to final, rest to rep)
1. Tom Aggar (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:04.16
2. Tonis Vihmand (Estonia) 5:51.14
3. Szabolcs Nemeth (Hungary 1) 5:59.29
4. Leszek Newarowski (Poland) 6:04.72
REPECHAGES
OPEN
WOMEN
Pair
Repechage (1-2 to Final A, remainder to Final B)
1. Katie Greves, Louisa Reeve (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 7:17:41
2. Jiaying Zhang, Yanjie Ding (China 2) 7:20:33
3. Tess Gerrand, Katrina Bateman (Australia) 7:20:88
4. Seoyeong Jeon, Seo Hee Kim (Korea) 7:36:08
5. Shundi Liu, Meng Yang (China 1) 7:59:36
MEN
Pair
Repechage 1 (1-2 to Final A, Remainder to Final B)
1. Ionel Strungaru / Florin Curuea (Romania 1) 6:43.77
2. Ertan Hazine / James Cook (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 6:46.50
3. Karl Hudspith / Paul Bennett (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 6:48.55
4. Arnaud Petitjean / Valentin Onfroy (France) 6:51.70
5. Xiaoyun Zheng / Panpan Zhang (China 2) 6:52.50
Double scull
Repechage 2 (1-2 to Final A, Remainder to Final B)
1. Bill Lucas/Matt Langridge (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:27.91
2. Michal Plocek/Jan Andrle (Czech Republic) 6:30.64
3. Tiexin Wang / Jie Sun (China 2) 6:36:37
4. Dongyong Kim / Do-Sub Choi (Korea) 6:42.06
5. Ha Zang / Tianyi Chen (China 1) 6:47.01
LIGHTWEIGHT
MEN
Four
Repechage (1-4 to Final A, 5 to Final B)
1. Adam Freeman-Pask/William Fletcher/Jonathan Clegg/Chris Bartley (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:07:13
2. Austria 6:08:33
3. Poland 6:09:92
4. Japan 6:10:71
5. Egypt 6:26:02
6. Brazil 6:26:41
Single scull
Repechage 1 (1-3 to semi-final AB, remainder to Final C)
1. Jamie Kirkwood (GREAT BRITAIN 1) 7:16:44
2. Alison Silva (Brazil 1) 7:22:70
3. Nuno Mendes (Portugal) 7:27:60
4. Kwan Ting Kwok (Hong Kong) 7:40:74
5. Dego Nazario (Brazil 2) 7:53:24
6. Nadzrie Hamzah (Singapore) 8:03:07
Single Sculls
Repechage 2 (1-3 to semi-final AB, remainder to Final C)
1. Hugh McAdam (USA) 7:14:95
2. Chris Boddy (GREAT BRITAIN 2) 7:15:69
3. Christian Michaelsen (Denmark 3) 7:25:93
4. Hakbeom Lee (Korea) 7:29:31
5. Farid Saadov (Azerbajan) 7:34:86
6. Akiyoshi Tsukamoto (Japan) 7:36:84
PARA-ROWING
Single scull
Repechage (1-4 to Final A, 5 to Final B)
1. Andrew Houghton (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:19:87
2. Vadim Morozov (Russia) 5:25:40
3. Tonis Vihmand (Estonia) 5:57:22
4. Szabolcs Nemeth (Hungary) 6:06:00
5. Leszek Niewiarowski (Poland) 6:08:22
6. Thomas Kelly (Ireland) 6:14:96
Preliminary Race
Mixed Coxed four
LTA Mixed Coxed Four Preliminary Race (all to Final)
1. Pamela Relph/Naomi Riches/James Fox/Oliver Hester/Olivier James (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 3:32.17
2. Ukraine 3:49.73
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GB ROWING TEAM
CREW LISTS
Samsung World Rowing Cup, Eton Dorney, 21-23 June, 2013
OPEN
WOMEN
Pair – three boats
Helen Glover (Minerva Bath/Penzance/17.06.86)/
Polly Swann (Leander Club/Edinburgh/05.06.88)
Coach: Robin Williams
Katie Greves (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.82)/
Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.84)
Jessica Eddie (London RC/Durham/07.10.84)/
Olivia Carnegie-Brown (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Oxford/28.13.91)
Single scull – two boats
Victoria Thornley (Leander Club/Wrexham/30.11.87)
Coach: Jane Hall/Paul Reedy
Melanie Wilson (Imperial College BC/London/25.06.84)
Coach: Paul Reedy
Double scull
Frances Houghton (Leander Club/Oxford/19.09.80)/
Victoria Meyer-Laker (Leander Club/Premnay/18.03.88)
Coach: Paul Thompson
Quadruple scull – two boats
Caragh McMurtry (Reading Univ BC/Southampton/22.08.91)/
Monica Relph (Leander Club/Cambridge/15.01.88)/
Rosamund Bradbury (Leander Club/Banstead/17.12.88)/
Kristina Stiller (Tees RC/Yarm/23.06.87)
Coach: Nick Strange
Katherine Douglas (Leander Club/Midlothian/03.08.89)/
Zoe Lee (Sport Imperial BC/Richmond, N. Yorks/15.12.85)/
Sarah Cowburn (Leander Club/Redditch/01.02.89)/
Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC/Gloucester/28.12.82)
MEN
Pair – two boats
Karl Hudspith (Oxford Uni BC/Twickenham/31.03.88)/
Paul Bennett (Univ of London BC/Leeds/16.12.88)
Coach: Sean Bowden
Ertan Hazine (Univ of London BC/Maidenhead/01.08.91)
James Cook (Univ of London BC/Windsor/02.07.92)/
Coach: Brian Young
Four
Alan Sinclair (Leander Club/Inverness/16.10.85)/
Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell (Univ of London BC/Durham/13.04.88)/
Scott Durant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lancaster/12.02.88)/
Matthew Tarrant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Shepperton/11.07.90)
Coach: Christian Felkel
Eight – two boats
Oliver Cook (Univ of London BC/Windsor/05.06.90)/
Dan Ritchie (Leander Club/Herne Bay/16.01.87)/
Tom Ransley (Leander Club/Cambridge/16.09.85)/
James Foad (Molesey BC/Southampton/20.03.87)/
Mohamed Sbihi (Molesey BC/Surbiton/27.03.88)/
Will Satch (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/09.06.89)/
Pete Reed (Leander Club/Nailsworth/27.07.81)/
Andrew Triggs Hodge (Molesey BC/Hebden/03.03.79)/
Phelan Hill (cox) (Leander Club/Bedford/21.07.79)
Coach: Jurgen Grobler
Nick Middleton (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/12.08.88)/
James Edwards (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/26.09.91)/
Colin Williamson (Molesey BC/Perth/03.04.83)/
Philip Congdon (Molesey BC/East Molesey/06.06.89)/
Matthew Gotrel (Leander Club/Chipping Campden/01.03.89)/
John Collins (Leander Club/Twickenham/24.01.89)/
Mason Durant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lancaster/12.02.88)/
Lance Tredell (Leander Club/Hale/25.10.88)/
Henry Fieldman (cox) (Cambridge Univ BC/Barnes/25.11.88)
Coach: Rob Dauncey
Single scull – two boats
Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers School/Coleraine/09.05.83)
Coach: John West
Jonathan Walton (Leander Club/Leicester/06.10.90)
Coach: Paul Stannard
Double scull
Bill Lucas (London RC/Kingswear/13.09.87)/
Matt Langridge (Leander Club/Northwich/20.05.83)
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
LIGHTWEIGHTS
WOMEN
Single scull
Ruth Walczak (Molesey BC/Rochdale/15.09.88)
Coach: Paul Reedy
Double scull – two boats
Kathryn Twyman (Wallingford RC/Oxford/29.03.87)/
Imogen Walsh (London RC/Inverness/17.01.84)
Coach: Paul Reedy
Brianna Stubbs (Wallingford RC/Headington/13.07.91)/
Eleanor Piggott (Wallingford RC/Olney/16.05.91)
Coach: Peter Sheppard
MEN
Pair – two boats
Sam Scrimgeour (Imperial College BC/Fofar/28.01.88)/
Mark Aldred (London RC/London/18.04.87)
Coach: Rob Morgan
Matthew Bedford (Univ of London BC/Maidenhead/21.01.91)/
Wilf Kimberley (Imperial College BC/London/15.07.92)
Coach: Brian Young
Four
William Fletcher (Leander Club/Chester-le-Street/24.12.89)/
Adam Freeman-Pask (Reading Univ BC/Windsor/19.06.85)/
Jonathan Clegg (Leander Club/Maidenhead/14.07.89)/
Chris Bartley (Leander Club/Chester/02.02.84)
Coach: Rob Morgan
Single scull – two boats
Jamie Kirkwood (Leander Club/Cresswell/30.08.89)
Coach: Darren Whiter
Chris Boddy (Leander Club/Thornaby-on-Tees/16.11.87)
Coach: Darren Whiter
Double Scull
Richard Chambers (Leander Club/Coleraine/10.06.85)/
Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Coleraine/14.03.90)
Coach: Darren Whiter
PARA-ROWING
MEN
Arms-shoulders single scull – two boats
Tom Aggar (Royal Docks RC/London/24.05.84)
Coach: Tom Dyson
Andrew Houghton (Maidenhead RC/Newbury/06.04.81)
Coach: Tom Dyson
MIXED
Legs-trunk-arms mixed coxed four
Pamela Relph (Leander Club/Aylesbury/14.11.89)/
Naomi Riches (Marlow RC/Harrow/15.06.83)/
James Fox (Univ of London BC/Peterborough/02.05.92)/
Oliver Hester (Henley RC/Henley-on-Thames/18.02.90)/
Oliver James (cox) (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/05.10.90)
Coach: Mary McLachlan
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