One of the best coaches I鈥檝e worked with told me that a good cox is not someone who is always talked about but one who you almost don鈥檛 notice. They are the coxes that keep things running smoothly without being constantly questioned as they are always one step ahead.

So how can you improve your coxing skills? For many a top-level cox the best teacher is probably experience – the more kilometres steered and the more experience of various training or racing scenarios, the better prepared you will be to contribute to the crew.

If you would like to improve your coxing, I would target three core areas:

1 – Steering

I think steering is one of the easier things you can evaluate and address.

When you are in the boat you can tell whether the boat is twisting or whether you find yourself correcting your own steering only a few strokes later. The key thing to remember in these cases is to use less rudder and plan ahead.

Another great way of monitoring your own steering performance is to record it. It鈥檚 not the nicest thing to watch but it is very effective.

Place a camera such as a GoPro on the stern canvas looking backwards and record. When you watch the footage later, you鈥檒l soon get an idea of how you are steering and whether you are using too much rudder. Repeat the process periodically and you鈥檒l be able to get a good picture of how you are getting on.

2 – 鈥業n-boat鈥� training calls

A positive way for a cox to learn or correct faults is for the coach or rower to refrain from criticising too heavily on the water, and instead spend short periods of time after training going over the mistakes or faults of the session. This approach will also help to build a healthy working relationship between coach and the cox, which is sure to benefit everyone in the future.

Similarly, it is best for a rower to discuss coxing after the outing, when everyone is more relaxed.

I learned the most about my calls by sitting down with my crew to listen to the recording of a race

In my experience the best coxes are the ones who take it upon themselves to gain feedback from the coaches and rowers 鈥� sometimes feedback may not be forthcoming, so be prepared to ask and follow up if required. Once you have this, develop a system that works for you so you can monitor yourself, with the aim of improving your performance each time you go out.

Another form of feedback is to record a session and then play it back. It can be painful but it鈥檚 a great tool. If you don鈥檛 like what you are hearing then think how the rowers may feel!

Once you have listened, approach your coach, rower, or an experienced cox and run through the recording with them for questions or ideas.

3 – 鈥業n-boat鈥� race calls and tactics

The same principles apply for racing: approach coaches and rowers for feedback and record your races but if you are feeling brave take it one step further.

I learned the most about my calls and racing style by sitting down with my crew to listen to the recording of a race and discussing each segment. For example, the first 500m – what calls worked, what didn鈥檛, what could have been better?

This is probably one of the hardest things to do. You鈥檙e throwing yourself in the lion鈥檚 den but you鈥檒l certainly come out of it stronger and have a far better idea of what the rowers want and expect. Fortune favours the brave!

Then for the next race be sure to deliver on what you鈥檝e discussed.

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The men found the form that had made them World Champions for the past three years as they produced a phenomenal performance to dominate their final from the first stroke to the last.

That came just minutes after the women鈥檚 eight had produced what is fast becoming a trademark charge through the field in the second half of the race to go from last to second, claiming silver in a thrilling photo-finish.

It was another moment of rowing history on the Lagoa, being the first Olympic medal won by a British women鈥檚 eight, and helped to ensure that GB finished top of the Rio 2016 rowing medal table with three golds and two silvers.

Andrew T Hodge and Pete Reed both became triple Olympic Champions with their success in the men鈥檚 eight, while Matt Langridge completed his set of Olympic medals after silver in 2008 and bronze in 2012.

鈥淚鈥檓 proud to have been in such a crew,鈥� said Hodge. 鈥淭he eight is a wholly team event and we worked for each other.鈥�

Reed added: 鈥淚鈥檓 just thinking about how grateful I am to our coach and to the crew. They are just the most amazing bunch of guys and that was a big, big race.鈥�

Jurgen Grobler, the Chief Coach for Open-weight Men who has now led 12 GB crews to Olympic gold, said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 just fantastic what the guys did. They matched the coxless four and it鈥檚 been a wonderful day. It鈥檚 wonderful for 91桃色, it鈥檚 wonderful for our sport.

鈥淚n the last four years we have developed winning athletes, medal athletes, podium athletes. We knew we had a good bunch of guys to win the eight as well and I feel so good for them, there is a good mix between older and younger ones.鈥�

The men's eight from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

It may have been a first Olympic medal for a women鈥檚 eight but it was a third silver for Frances Houghton who, like Katherine Grainger, was appearing at a record fifth Olympic Games for a British female rower.

鈥淭his fifth Olympics has been really great,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e鈥檝e really tried to make sure we鈥檝e had a good time. Even before the race we sat around and we were laughing and joking together.

鈥淪port can be so much pressure but at the same time, sport is supposed to be fun and a great experience. It鈥檚 something you do that you enjoy and you pursue because you like to be challenged.鈥�

Jess Eddie, fifth with the eight in both 2008 and 2012, dedicated the success to the British women rowers who had been part of the programme during the past two decades.

鈥淲e鈥檝e worked so hard to get here and it鈥檚 not just us, we did that for every single woman who has rowed in the eight for the past 20 years – you know who you are, you helped us get over this line.鈥�

Sir David Tanner, Team GB Leader for Rowing, said: 鈥淲ith three outstanding golds and two superb silvers, our 26 rowing medallists have done TeamGB proud at these Olympics. 26 rowers will be returning home having achieved their dreams here in Rio. To be top of the rowing medal table for the third successive Olympics is something to be truly proud of.

“Well done to our rowers and the outstanding Coaching and Team Support staff, not only out here in Rio but those at home who backed us all the way.鈥�

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Alex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis laid down a strong marker in their opening Olympic men’s four heat here at the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Brazil.聽 They built on an early lead to win in 5:55.59 and move into Wednesday鈥檚 semi-finals.

鈥淚 feel like a pressure valve has been released鈥�, said Gregory聽 It鈥檚 been a lot of waiting but it was good to get the job done鈥�.

Nash added: 鈥淚t was good to get that one under our belts and out of the way鈥�.

Helen Glover and Heather Stanning experienced a much tighter affair, coming through a stiff Danish challenge to win their opening heat of the 2016 Olympic regatta in 7:05.05.
The Olympic, World and European Champions saw the danger in the final 250m and needed a powerful flourish at the end to secure the win.

Stanning said:聽 鈥淭he important thing today was to get into the semi-finals and we did that.聽 It definitely wasn鈥檛 a bad row but it wasn鈥檛 an exceptional row either鈥�.

Glover added:聽 鈥淥n time and on margin that was a tough race but we have experienced having to dig deeper in other races and in training鈥�.

The GB women鈥檚 eight paced their heat to perfection to break through a New Zealand lead in the final 500m to win and take a place in Sunday鈥檚 final.聽 The win was revenge for their defeat to the Kiwis at the season鈥檚 final world cup.

GB鈥檚 men followed up with a commanding performance to win their eights heat in 5:34.23 to move straight through to Sunday鈥檚 final.

鈥淲e have put in a lot of hard work over the past two months and I think it鈥檚 beginning to show鈥�, said Pete Reed.

鈥淭hey are all very, very good crews here. The final is going to be an incredible race鈥�, added Paul Bennett.

Will Fletcher and Richard Chambers secured their semi-final slot with second place in their lightweight men鈥檚 double heat behind South Africa.

Chambers talked on behalf of the crew whilst his crew-mate Will Fletcher was called to anti-doping. 鈥淭oday was good but not good enough. I know we can do better. We didn鈥檛 settle as well into our rhythm as we have been doing in training.聽 It was probably just the excitement of an opening heat at the Olympic Games鈥�.

Kat Copeland and Charlotte Taylor did not get the result they wanted today as they were fifth in their heat and now race a repechage of the lightweight women鈥檚 double scull.
Taylor said: 鈥淚 guess the disappointing thing is that we haven鈥檛 shown what we can do.聽 We need to deconstruct what we have just done and put it all back together again for tomorrow鈥檚 repechage鈥�.

Earlier the GB men鈥檚 quadruple scull warmed GB hearts as they overcame recent bad luck to reach the Olympic final, taking second place in their repechage. As Jack Beaumont, Sam Townsend, Angus Groom and Peter Lambert crossed the line there was probably a bit of Graeme Thomas – the man who had to go home ill聽 – with them as they became the first GB crew to reach a final here in Brazil.

鈥淚t hasn鈥檛 been the ideal preparation but I鈥檓 very happy for the three guys behind me in the stroke seat as well as for Charles (Cousins) and Graeme (Thomas) who helped get us here鈥�. said Lambert.

John Collins and Jonny Walton were also in much better racing fettle today as they powered into the semis of the open men鈥檚 double scull with a win in a tensely-contested repechage.

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Scott Durant, Tom Ransley, Andrew T Hodge, Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Matt Langridge, Will Satch and cox Phelan Hill are named for Rio today. This crew pressed the German Olympic Champions all the way to the line before narrowly taking silver at last month鈥檚 world cup in Poland.

Hodge and Reed have twice won Olympic gold in the men鈥檚 four. Ransley, Langridge and Hill were men鈥檚 eight bronze medallists in London, while Satch won bronze in the men鈥檚 pair.

Gotrel, a former international sailor who swapped to rowing at University, Bennett and Durant will be making their Olympic debuts.聽 All three have been in either World gold medal winning crews or on the World podium in other boat classes.

In all three men鈥檚 eight World finals, the main opposition has come from Germany. 聽However, the Dutch, third at last year鈥檚 World Championships and winners at the Lucerne World Cup, will also prove strong contenders in Rio this summer.

Nathaniel Reilly O鈥橠onnell and Mat Tarrant will provide cover for the Olympic open-weight men鈥檚 sweep squad.聽 The duo have been World Champions themselves in the eight since London.

Team GB also announced today that Vicki Meyer-Laker will be the reserve for the open-weight women鈥檚 squad.聽 That brings the total of rowers to 47 and completes the selection for the sport – click on the expander box below to see the full squad.

The squad will now be focussing on a month of hard training in European-based camps before travelling on to Rio.

Mark England, Team GB鈥檚 Chef de Mission, said: 鈥淕B has had powerful success in the men鈥檚 eight since London 2012 and we are delighted to welcome this crew into Team GB today.鈥�

Sir David Tanner, 91桃色 Performance Director and Team GB Rowing Team Leader, said: 聽鈥淭he GB men鈥檚 eight showed strong form at the season鈥檚 world cup finale, taking a superb silver and putting the Olympic Champions, Germany, under pressure. We are taking one of our strongest open men鈥檚 sweep squads to the Games in Rio and the men鈥檚 eight is one of our headline crews.”

The men’s eight (who may have been watching Star Wars on training camp by the looks of things) hope the force will be with them when the Olympic rowing regatta starts in 36 days time.

Matt Langridge said: “It’s great to be officially selected in the eight, I’m very confident that this group of guys have what it takes to win in Rio and, with Jurgen’s programme, we’ll be in the best possible shape come Rio聽– the force is strong with that one.”

Scott Durant said:聽鈥淚t feels great to be selected but now the real work begins. In my experience there is no such thing as luck.鈥�

Andrew T Hodge said: 鈥淒o. Or do not.聽 There is no ‘try’. Rio, here we come, finally.”

Will Satch said: “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”

Phelan Hill said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 a real honour to be selected to represent for Team GB at the Olympics. The circle is now complete.聽When I competed at London, I was but the learner now I am the master.鈥�

Paul Bennett said: 鈥淣ow witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station!”

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Every crew from every nation had to dig deep in the strong cross-winds which meant winning came ugly rather than with finesse.

Helen Glover and Heather Stanning won the women鈥檚 pair to defend successfully their European title by some margin while the new-look 2016 men鈥檚 four of Alex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis controlled the conditions better than the opposition as well as having the power to take victory by just over a length.

Sbihi said:聽 鈥淚 didn鈥檛 need to call for a big push at the end. We had the length at the end.聽 They were tough conditions. Every time we got some boat-speed the wind hit us but you have to deal with the conditions on the day鈥�.

Gregory said:聽 鈥淚t was very hard to do what we normally try to in training but it was a real test of our boatmanship. I am really pleased with the start we have made and I am excited to find out what we can do from here鈥�.

Constantine Louloudis, George Nash, Moe Sbihi and Alex Gregory

Helen Glover and Heather Stanning crowned European Champions earlier this month.

Glover said:聽 鈥淭here were waves coming over my back at the start but racing here has up-skilled us.聽 We may have cross-wind conditions in Rio so it was good to race in them鈥�.

Stanning added:聽 鈥淲e may be an experienced crew but we鈥檙e not experienced in these conditions.聽 So we had to concentrate鈥�.

The GB鈥檚 women鈥檚 eight added a fabulous third gold when they smashed through the Dutch leaders with about 10m to go.

鈥淭he speed with which we were able to come through at the end was the special bit.聽 We have a lot of speed in this boat鈥�, said Olympian Katie Greves who is clearly excited about this crew.

鈥淓veryone did their job and stayed calm even though we were a length down鈥�, said Zoe Lee, the stroke of boat. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a privilege to row with these women鈥�.

Joel Cassells and Sam Scrimgeour

Alan Sinclair and Stewart Innes

Sir David Tanner,聽 GB Rowing Team Performance Director, said:聽 鈥淚t鈥檚 been a day of mixed fortunes for the team with some exceptional performances especially our four golds.

鈥淐onditions have bordered on the extreme and have bene a tough challenge for all nations but we are an outdoor sport and have to accept that. It鈥檚 now onto Lucerne for the World Cup in late May where we will hope for calmer water鈥�.

Alan Sinclair and Stewart Innes added silver to the GB tally of four golds, two silvers and a bronze, in the men鈥檚 pair. They beat the Dutch who should have been their main opposition only to lose out on gold to Hungary who surged through at the end.聽 鈥淚鈥檓 disappointed鈥�, said Innes afterwards. 鈥淲e came here to win鈥�.

Sinclair added:聽 鈥淭hose were tough conditions.聽 I still think we have our best rowing to come鈥�.

Chris Bartley, Mark Aldred, Jono Clegg and Peter Chambers were beaten to gold only by the reigning World Champions Switzerland in the light men鈥檚 four.聽 Their silver came in a time of 6:47.73 and was a big step on from their ninth place at last year鈥檚 World Championships.

Bartley said:聽 鈥淎fter last year we are pretty pleased with that start鈥�.聽 Aldred added:聽 鈥淲e have worked hard and made a lot of improvements over the winter鈥�.

Chris Bartley, Jono Clegg, Peter Chambers and Mark Aldred

The men's eight

The men鈥檚 eight, a new line-up in 2016, took bronze in the last race of the day in a race won by Germany with Russia taking silver.

鈥淭hat was an exciting race.聽 In terms of eights racing that鈥檚 about as exciting as it can get with several crews having had the lead at various times鈥�, said World Champion Paul Bennett afterwards.

In the opening race of the day GB鈥檚 Sam Scrimgeour and Joel Cassells were emphatic winners of lightweight men鈥檚 pair gold, in one of the sport鈥檚 International Class events.聽 They got out to an early lead and went on to seal victory with style.聽 The victory meant a European title to add to Scrimgeour鈥檚 2015 World gold and a successful title defence for Casseslls.

GB had 13 crews in today鈥檚 finals and took four golds, two silvers and a bronze. The next big event for the GB Rowing Team will be the world cup in Lucerne from May 27-29.

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Helen Glover and Heather Stanning were announced in the women鈥檚 pair in which they are the reigning Olympic, World and European Champions.

Glover said:聽 “It’s always fantastic to be selected to represent Great Britain, and never more so than in Olympic year. The European Championships are our first opportunity to test our early season speed against international competition.鈥�

And one of the strongest open men鈥檚 sweep* rowing squads in the world has been deployed across the men鈥檚 eight and four, as well as a new-look men鈥檚 pair, for the event which takes place in Brandenburg, Germany from May 6-8.

Sir David Tanner, GB Rowing Team Performance Director, said: 鈥淲e are clearly ambitious to do well in Rio and will race and then review the Europeans combinations announced today. We will also enter six crews for the Varese World Cup regatta in ten days鈥� time.鈥�

Double Olympic men鈥檚 four champions Pete Reed and Andrew T Hodge have been selected into the men鈥檚 eight in a line-up which includes Scott Durant and 2012 men鈥檚 eight medallist Matt Langridge alongside multiple World Champions Paul Bennett, Matt Gotrel, Tom Ransley, stroke Will Satch and cox Phelan Hill. Ransley, Satch and Hill are also 2012 medallists.

Alex Gregory, 2012 gold medallist in the four, returns to that boat and races with his Trials winning partner, Mohamed Sbihi, plus George Nash and stroke Constantine Louloudis. The quartet are all reigning World Champions in the men鈥檚 eight.

Gregory said:聽 鈥淓verything we do aims towards the Olympics and now finally we are starting to form the crews that will make up the Olympic team. With the European Championships as the first test, I can’t wait聽to get the 2016 racing season underway. It’s a privilege to race for our country and the feeling of pride and excitement never diminishes.鈥�

Having laid down a strong marker with a top-four finish at the recent GB Trials, Alan Sinclair and Stewart Innes are named as the men鈥檚 pair.

It is the first major step conquered on the way to fulfilling my dream of competing in my fifth Olympic Games – Frances Houghton

Relative rookie Angus Groom has forced his way into the open men鈥檚 quadruple scull* in the absence of the injured Charles Cousins, to join 2013 and 2014 World medallists Sam Townsend, Graeme Thomas and Peter Lambert.

Lambert said:聽 鈥淚 am extremely happy with my selection for the Europeans. This regatta is an exciting start to our Olympic season. The men’s quad at the Europeans is an extremely high competition. Out of the eight crews that qualified last year for the Olympics, seven of them are European countries. We are looking forward to it.鈥�

2012 bronze medallist Alan Campbell, whose Trials鈥� win showed that he is back on form, races the single scull and Jonny Walton and John Collins, contest the double scull – they qualified that boat for Rio at last year鈥檚 World Championships.

Four-times Olympic medallist Katherine Grainger is named in the open women鈥檚 double scull with Trials winner Vicky Thornley in a reprise of their 2015 partnership which finished its debut season with a place in the World final.

Like Grainger, Frances Houghton, will race a fifth Olympic Games if selected later this summer for Rio.聽 She has switched from sculling to sweep rowing and has won a seat in the women鈥檚 eight that came so close to winning a medal at last year鈥檚 World Championships.

Grainger said:聽 鈥淭he idea of ever competing at the Olympic Games was once just a dream and so it was incredible when I made the team in 2000. Now 16 years on and looking to my fifth Games I still have the same excitement I did back then, it’s the most amazing event to be part of and that doesn’t change whether it’s the first time or the fifth.鈥�

Houghton said:聽 “I feel almost overwhelmed to be selected for the European Championships in the women’s eight. It is the first major step conquered on the way to fulfilling my dream of competing in my fifth Olympic Games.

“It has at times seemed like an insurmountable mountain to climb and now it is just sinking in that all the hard work and deep belief in the darkest of times of illness and injury has paid off.”

Olympians Jess Eddie, Katie Greves and Melanie Wilson as well as 2013 World pair champion Polly Swann, back after a year out with injury, will be joined in the line-up by Zoe Lee, Karen Bennett, Olivia Carnegie-Brown and cox Zoe de Toledo.

It’s a privilege to race for our country and the feeling of pride and excitement never diminishes – Alex Gregory

World silver medallists Kat Copeland and Charlotte Taylor will once more race the lightweight women鈥檚 double scull having taken the top two spots at the Trials from a strongly contested lightweight sculling group. Imogen Walsh, therefore, races the single in which she won World silver in 2015.

Richard Chambers is on his way back after a recent hand injury and will race the lightweight men鈥檚 double, if fully fit, with Will Fletcher. Just like Olympic Champion Copeland and Taylor, they won World silver last year in their debut season together.

Further post-Trials testing was needed to establish the crews for the lightweight men鈥檚 sweep boats.聽 2012 silver medallists Peter Chambers and Chris Bartley have made the cut and will be joined by Mark Aldred and Jono Clegg, both now experienced internationals.聽 Sam Scrimgeour and Joel Cassells are GB鈥檚 choice in the pair. They won World gold last year.

Jamie Kirkwood, a World finalist last year, takes up the GB slot in the lightweight men鈥檚 single once more.

91桃色 will also race six crews at the Varese World Cup from April 15-17, including the women鈥檚 quadruple scull, announced in the European squad today as Holly Nixon, Jess Leyden, Tina Stiller and Rosamund Bradbury as the campaign begins to qualify this boat for Rio.

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*Sweep = one rower, one oar / Scull = one rower, two sculls

RACING TIMETABLE 鈥� 2016 European Championships, Brandenburg, Germany

• Friday 6 May 鈥� all heats a.m.; some repechages p.m.
• Saturday 7 May 鈥� All further repechages and semi-finals.
• Sunday 8 May 鈥� All finals (09.33 鈥� 13.33 UK Time).

GB ROWING TEAM MEDALISTS聽–聽2015 European Championships, Poznan, Poland

Gold:

• Women鈥檚 pair 鈥� Helen Glover, Heather Stanning.
• Men鈥檚 pair 鈥� James Foad, Matt Langridge.
• Men鈥檚 four 鈥� Nathaniel Reilly-O鈥橠onnell, Alan Sinclair, Tom Ransley, Scott Durant.
• Lightweight women鈥檚 single scull 鈥� Imogen Walsh.
• Lightweight women鈥檚 double scull 鈥� Charlotte Taylor, Kat Copeland.
• Lightweight men鈥檚 pair 鈥� Joel Cassells, Peter Chambers.

Silver:

• Men鈥檚 eight 鈥� Matt Gotrel, Stewart Innes, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Moe Sbihi, Alex Gregory, George Nash, Will Satch, Phelan Hill (cox).
• Lightweight men鈥檚 double scull 鈥� Richard Chambers, Will Fletcher.

Bronze:

• Women鈥檚 double scull 鈥� Vicky Thornley, Katherine Grainger.
• Men鈥檚 quadruple scull 鈥� Jack Beaumont, Sam Townsend, Graeme Thomas, Peter Lambert.

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115 rowers are set to go to the start line of next week鈥檚 Olympic-season GB Rowing Team trials with just 48 Rio places on offer later this summer and earlier seats to be won at the European Championships.

The announcement of the crews for the European Championships will take place on April 6.

Sir David Tanner, 91桃色鈥檚 Performance Director said: 鈥淭his is the event when we test the rowers under pressure in pairs and singles to see who has got what it takes to win.聽 The tension is never greater than in Olympic year.鈥�

The field for next week鈥檚 (Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23) men鈥檚 pair event will be headed by names like Alex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash, Will Satch, Pete Reed, Andrew T Hodge and Constantine Louloudis who are all Olympic medallists, three of them Olympic Champions.

Gregory and Sbihi are tipped to take a hat-trick of titles since 2014 and, for Sbihi, victory would mean a fourth consecutive victory at this event.

World men鈥檚 eight Champions Paul Bennett and Matt Gotrel will also have eyes on the prize of a top seat for 2016.

Helen Glover and Heather Stanning are stand-out favourites to win the women鈥檚 pair event. The duo hold the Olympic, World and European titles although Jess Eddie and Polly Swann 鈥� the latter a World Champion with Glover in 2013 鈥� could run them close as they did in 2014.

Singular 鈥渟ingle鈥� and women鈥檚 sweep battles in store

Perhaps more intriguing could be the battle for top honours in the open men鈥檚 single scull.

Angus Groom won the December assessment. The young Scot is making his mark after joining the senior squad from the ranks of the U23 World medallists.

With Charles Cousins absent through injury, 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Alan Campbell should feel he has a chance to extend his remarkable trials record to nine overall wins.聽 He won eight titles consecutively from 2005-2012 before Cousins took over the mantle.

2013 and 2014 World quadruple scull medallists Pete Lambert, Sam Townsend, Graeme Thomas as well as Groom鈥檚 erstwhile World U23 medal team-mate Jack Beaumont, who is back on track after last summer鈥檚 serious injury, and 2015 double-scullers Jonny Walton and John Collins are also in the mix.

At these trials only 2012 Olympic gold medallist Andrew T Hodge, racing next week in the men鈥檚 pair with reigning World pairs silver medallist Matt Langridge, can equal the 10 titles won to date by Katherine Grainger who sits out next week as she is recovering from a minor niggle, leaving Vicky Thornley the favourite to win the open women鈥檚 single.

Frances Houghton, a 2008 Olympic silver medallist and previous, multiple winner of these trials in the single, has swapped into a competitive 鈥渟weep鈥� group seeking seats in the Rio-qualified women鈥檚 eight.

This includes, amongst other contenders, Olympians Eddie and Swann, Katie Greves, Louisa Reeve and Melanie Wilson as well as Donna Etiebet, Ro Bradbury, Olivia Carnegie-Brown and Zoe Lee.

Eddie summed up the mood in the squad when she said recently:聽 鈥淭he focus right now is purely on selection, that is the big thing weighing on people鈥檚 minds.聽 It鈥檚 pretty intense but it鈥檚 in our own hands.聽 If we鈥檙e good enough we鈥檒l be in the boat, if we鈥檙e not we鈥檒l, miss out.鈥�

Seriously heavy competition for the lightweight titles

Last season鈥檚 finals session was marked by a sizzling finale to the lightweight women鈥檚 single scull when Olympic Champion Kat Copeland was eased out in a three-boat photo-finish by Imogen Walsh and, then rookie, Charlotte Taylor.

Taylor and Copeland went on to race in the lightweight double for GB in the ensuing season and won World silver in Aiguebelette, France, and Walsh won World silver in the single.

Outside of this triumvirate a new wave of talented lightweights continues to emerge including previous World U23 medallists Brianna Stubbs and Ellie Piggott.

Next week鈥檚 trials will feature both a single and a pairs event for the lightweight men as selection is honed down to the two Olympic boats 鈥� the light four and double.

Richard Chambers and Will Fletcher won World silver in the double last September.聽 Fletcher remains a strong contender for next week鈥檚 light single title alongside twice previous winner Jamie Kirkwood and Zak Lee Green but Chambers has a hand injury which will keep him on the sidelines.

In the pairs event Joel Cassells, from the same town 鈥� Coleraine –聽 as 2012 Olympic medallists Alan Campbell, Peter and Richard Chambers 鈥� will seek to impress in his continuing rise from recent student rowing days.

This will be a small but tight event with Peter Chambers, Mark Aldred, Chris Bartley, Jonno Clegg and Sam Scrimgeour all with senior medal experience racing against relative newcomers like Jamie Copus and Sam Mottram.

Four coxes are also amongst those attending the invitation only event. They are Phelan Hill, Henry Fieldman, Zoe de Toledo and Matilda Horn.

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RACING TIMETABLE

Racing will take place as follows:

Time-trials (heats) – 09.45 – 11.00 on Tuesday 22 March

Semi-finals – 15.00 – 16.25 on Tuesday 22 March

Finals – 10.00 – 12.30 Wednesday 23 March

All times of racing are subject to the weather and members of the media who are attending the event should check with the press officer on 07831 755351 or comms@gbrowingteam.org.uk before travelling to the event, particularly if there are high winds.

Any updates to schedules will be posted on twitter:聽 @GBRowingTeam and on Facebook:聽 www.facebook.com/gbrowingteam

ENTRY LIST

(As at Thursday 17 March)

* denotes U23

OPEN

MEN

SINGLE

Tom Barras (Leander Club/Staines/07.01.94)*

Jack Beaumont (Leander Club/Maidenhead/21.11.93)

Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers School/Coleraine/09.05.83)

Frazier Christie (Leander Club/Bath/11.01.93)

John Collins (Leander Club/Whitton/24.01.89)

Angus Groom (Leander Club/Glasgow/16.06.92)

Peter Lambert (Leander Club/Maidenhead/03.12.86)

Rowan Law (Leander Club/Nottingham/01.12.96)*

Harry Leask (Leander Club/Edinburgh/16.10.95)*

Nick Middleton (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/12.08.88)

George Stewart (Molesey BC/Esher/14.04.95)*

Jon Stimpson (Nottingham RC/Gex, France/18.07.90)

Graeme Thomas (Agecroft RC/Preston/08.11.88)

Sam Townsend (Reading Univ BC/Reading/26.11.85)

Sam Twine (Reading Univ BC/Tavistock/06.01.94)*

Jonny Walton (Leander Club/Leicester/06.10.90)

PAIR

Bowside

Chris Boddy (Leander Club/Thornaby-on-Tees/16.11.87)

Cameron Buchan (Leander Club/Dunipace/03.12.92)

Timothy Clarke (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/07.04.91)

Oliver Cook (Univ of London BC/Windsor/05.06.90)

Rory Gibbs (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lane End/03.04.94)*

Michael Glover (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Burnham/03.06.95)*

Matt Gotrel (Leander Club/Chipping Campden/01.03.89)

Matt Langridge (Leander Club/Northwich/20.05.83)

Luke Moon (Molesey BC/Deal/25.03.93)

George Nash (Molesey BC/Guildford/02.10.89)

Tom Ransley (Leander Club/Ashford/06.09.85)

Pete Reed (Leander Club/Nailsworth/27.07.81)

James Rudkin (Newcastle Univ BC/Northampton/07.07.94)*

Mohamed Sbihi (Molesey BC/Surbiton/27.03.88)

Alan Sinclair (Leander Club/Inverness/16.10.85)

Barnaby Stentiford (Leander Club/Ippleden/06.02.91)

Matthew Tarrant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Shepperton/11.07.90)

William Warr (Leander Club/Tunbridge Wells/12.03.92)

Strokeside

Matthew Aldridge (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Christchurch/11.03.96)*

Paul Bennett (Univ of London BC/Leeds/16.12.88)

Morgan Bolding (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Withiel/13.05.95)*

Phil Congdon (Leander Club/Bury St Edmunds/06.06.89)

Scott Durant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lancaster/12.02.88)

Thomas Ford (Leander Club/Holmes Chapel/03.10.92)

Alex Gregory (Leander Club/Wormington/11.03.84)

Chris Heywood (Molesey BC/Ascot/29.05.94)*

Andrew T Hodge (Molesey BC/Hebden/03.03.79)

Stewart Innes (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/20.05.91)

Constantine Louloudis (Oxford Univ BC/London/15.09.91)

Callum McBrierty (Leander Club/Edinburgh/13.08.92)

Lewis McCue (Robert Gordon Uni/Aberdeen/26.12.94)*

Adam Neill (Leander Club/Peterborough/29.05.90)

Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell (Univ of London BC/Durham/13.04.88)

George Rossiter (Leander Club/Newbury/09.03.92)

Matt Rossiter (Leander Club/Newbury/25.09.89)

Will Satch (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/09.06.89)

OPEN

WOMEN

SINGLE

Emily Carmichael (Leander Club/Cheltenham/29.05.92)

Sam Courty (Reading RC/Alnwick/07.01.93)

Debbie Flood (Leander Club/Guiseley/27.02.80)

Georgia Francis (Imperial College BC/Newbury/18.08.94)*

Katherine Grainger (St Andrew BC/Glasgow/12.11.75) (injured)

Lucinda Gooderham (Leander Club/Garboldisham/09.06.84)

Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne (Reading Univ BC/Hereford/01.10.94)*

Jessica Leyden (Leander Club/Todmorden/22.02.95)

Holly Nixon (Leander Club/Enniskillen/07.12.93

Tina Stiller (Tees RC/Yarm/23.06.87)

Victoria Thornley (Leander Club/Wrexham/30.11.87)

Melissa Wilson (Cambridge Univ BC/Edinburgh/10.06.93)

PAIR

Bowside

Karen Bennett (Leander Club/Edinburgh/05.02.89)

Rosamund Bradbury (Leander Club/Banstead/17.12.88)

Beth Bryan (Tees RC/Stockton-on-Tees/23.04.93)

Jess Eddie (London RC/Durham/07.10.84)

Fiona Gammond (Leander Club/Bicester/19.10.92)

Helen Glover (Minerva Bath RC/Penzance/17.06.86)

Katie Greves (Leander Club/Oxford/02.09.82)

Frances Houghton (Univ of London Tyrian Club/Oxford/19.09.80)

Caragh McMurtry (Southampton Coalporters/Southampton/22.08.91)

Vicki Meyer-Laker (Leander Club/Premnay/18.03.88)

Strokeside

Olivia Carnegie-Brown (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Henley-on-Thames/28.03.91)

Rebecca Chin (Agecroft RC/Deganwy/11.12.91)

Donna Etiebet (Imperial College BC/London/29.04.86)

Zoe Lee (Imperial College BC/Richmond/15.12.85)

Holly Norton (Leander Club/Johannesburg, SA/01.01.93)

Louisa Reeve (Leander Club/London/16.05.84)

Heather Stanning (Army RC/Lossiemouth/26.01.85)

Polly Swann (Leander Club/Edinburgh/05.06.88)

Melanie Wilson (Imperial College BC/London/25.06.84)

Jo Wratten (Tees RC/Middlesbrough/23.03.92)

LIGHTWEIGHT

MEN

SINGLE

Richard Chambers (Leander Club/Coleraine/10.06.85) (injured)

Will Fletcher (Leander Club/Chester-le-Street/24.12.89)

John Hale (Imperial College BC/Cambridge/28.02.88)

Jonathan Jackson (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/02.06.95)*

Jamie Kirkwood (Leander Club/Newcastle/30.08.89)

Zak Lee-Green (Agecroft RC/Cardiff/06.02.91)

Samuel Mottram (Leander Club/Stoke Mandeville/14.11.94)*

Sam Tuck (Molesey BC/Peterborough/26.07.93)

PAIR

Bowside

Chris Bartley (Leander Club/Wrexham/02.02.84)

Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Univ/Coleraine/14.03.90)

Sam Scrimgeour (Imperial College BC/Kirriemuir/28.01.88)

Charles Waite-Roberts (Leander Club/Basingstoke/06.11.92)

Strokeside

Mark Aldred (London RC/Birmingham/18/04.87)

Joel Cassells (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Coleraine/15.06.94)*

Jonathan Clegg (Leander Club/Maidenhead/14.07.89)

Jamie Copus (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Oxford/30.01.93)

WOMEN

SINGLE

Maddie Arlett (Edinburgh Univ BC/Selkirk/07.06.94)*

Kat Copeland (Tees RC/Stockton-on-Tees/01.12.90)

Emily Craig (Univ of London BC/Mark Cross/30.11.92)

Gemma Hall (Wallingford RC/Wargrave/10.04.92)

Robyn Hart-Winks (Edinburgh Univ BC/Kirriemuir/07.10.93)

Ellie Lewis (Agecroft RC/Marlow/14.04.94)

Eleanor Piggott (Wallingford RC/Bedford/16.05.91)

Fran Rawlins (Leander Club/Uckfield/08.07.86)

Brianna Stubbs (Wallingford RC/Poole/13.07.91)

Charlotte Taylor (Putney Town RC/Bedford/14.08.85)

Imogen Walsh (London RC/Inverness/17.01.84)

COXES

MEN

Henry Fieldman (Molesey BC/Barnes/25.11.88)

Phelan Hill (Leander Club/Bedford/21.07.79)

WOMEN

Zoe De Toledo (Leander Club/London/17.07.87)

Matilda Horn (Univ of London BC/Windsor/16.

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“I think I was slightly aware but it was not until we crossed the line that I realise just how big the expectations were,” said Glover.

“Hopefully it’ s a sign of things to come across Team GB. Let’s go for it, let’s make it our Games. I’d also like to think this will inspire more people to be active and enjoy sport.”

Stanning added: “I couldn’t hear what Helen was saying, I couldn’t see the bubble line and all I could hear was the crowd cheering. It was such fantastic support. We’re delighted, it’s brilliant.”

The British men’s eight also took a medal today – a bronze – after a gutsy row in which they took the race to the unbeaten Germans in the first half but did not have enough to hold on to the line, leaving Canada to take silver from a fast finish.

“We may have sacrificed a silver but we gave it our all,” said Matt Langridge from the eight.

The British women’s quadruple scull were desperately unlikely to catch a crab within the first 30 strokes and were always out of contention from there.

Earlier the equivalent men’s boat qualified for the final on Friday in third place, again making history as the first GB boat in this category to qualify for an Olympic final.

Alan Campbell is safely through to the final of the men’s single scull with a second-placed semi-final finish today and the new, young GB men’s pair of Will Satch and George Nash led from the front to win their semi-final. The red-heads were in red hot form today and have laid down a marker for the final.

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Theirs was one of four heat victories from eight starts for the Team GB rowers today – enough to prompt Team GB rowing leader David Tanner to describe it as ” an exciting start” but cautioning that it would get “tougher from here”.

Glover was also keeping her feet on the ground whilst praising the crowd of 30,000. “The atmosphere is fantastic, the noise was amazing. For us, though, it was a standard row without the fireworks you might expect in a final.”

Stanning concurred: “We felt we had a relaxed row and now it’s all about the final. That’s the race we came here for.”

The lightweight men’s four of Peter and Richard Chambers plus Rob Williams and Chris Bartley were strong performers in their heat to win in 5:49.29 from Australia’s reigning world champions.

Britain’s other two victories came from the newcomer men’s pair of Will Satch and George Nash, who produced a poised first race at such a major event, and Alan Campbell, who looked in fine form in the men’s single scull.

Campbell moves to a quarter-final whilst the lightweight four and men’s pair move to semi-finals – all on Tuesday.

Sam Townsend and Bill Lucas were delighted with their performance in taking second place behind New Zealand who set an Olympic best time in the men’s double scull.

Cox Phelan Hill says “there is definitely more to come” from the British men’s eight who closed back up on eventual winners Germany in the second half of their heat today before taking second place and moving into the repechage on Monday.

The GB men’s quad are through to a semi-final with a comfortable second place today and Debbie Flood was clear that there were still options for the women’s quad who were fourth in their heat.

“We know we have the speed,” she said. “We just need to do a few things better to pick it up.” They also race a repechage on Monday.

WHAT’S AHEAD FOR THE ROWERS?

A further three boats will race opening heats on the second day – the women’s eight, lightweight men’s and women’s double scull.

In the lightweight men’s double scull Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter聽begin the defence of their Beijing crown, having had a roller-coaster聽season so far.

“We’ve had a good few weeks at training camp and we feel we聽are in a good place”, said Hunter recently.

Sophie Hosking and Kat Copeland contest the lightweight women’s聽double scull. Neither has raced at a Games before but Hosking has聽experience in the same event for the past three years at World聽Championship level, including two bronze medals in 2009 and 2011. Copeland was world U23 lightweight single scull champion last year and won the GB Senior Team Trials in that event.

The women’s eight finished the world cup season on a high after聽winning bronze in Munich. Cox Caroline O’Connor, Natasha Page, Louisa Reeve, Jess Eddie, Katie Greves, Annie Vernon and Olivia Whitlam are all Beijing Olympians – albeit not all in the women’s eight – whilst Lindsey聽Maguire and Vicky Thornley are World senior medallists.

Meanwhile the women’s double scull, featuring world champions Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins, and the men’s four – with world champion Alex Gregory and three Beijing gold medallists Andrew Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed and Tom James on board – will race for the first time on Monday.

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鈥淥ur recent training camps have gone well. We managed to escape the not-so-nice bits of the British summer and that was a big plus with great water conditions, particularly at our tuning camps in Southern Europe.

“I am sure that this is the best team that we have brought to a Games and I am confident that we will deliver on the water.”

Helen Glover and Heather Stanning will be first to the start line for Team GB in the women’s pair in the session starting at 09.30 on Saturday. Glover, a former PE teacher from Cornwall, and Stanning, an Army Captain from Lossiemouth, have been world silver medallists in each of the past two years.

Twice Olympic silver medallists Frances Houghton, racing at her fourth Games, and Debbie Flood, contesting her third Games, feature in the women’s quad in the same session alongside relative newcomer Melanie Wilson and 2010 World Champion, Beth Rodford.

The British team will contest a further six heats in that opening session.

1992 Olympic gold medallist Greg Searle has already confessed that he will have a lump in his throat when he races the opening heat of the men’s eight in a multi-talented crew including cox Phelan Hill, Constantine Louloudis at stroke, Olympic silver medallists Matthew Langridge, Ric Egington and Alex Partridge as well as world silver medallists James Foad, Tom Ransley and Mohamed Sbihi.

“It’s a privilege to row with such a talented crew”, said Searle. “It will feel different to 20 years ago but it will also be the same. I wanted to win then and we are ambitious to do the same here”.

Sbihi added: 鈥淚 feel like we have definitely improved since the last world cup and I feel we are in a good place going into the Games. But it鈥檚 a very strong field, to be honest, anyone can make a final and anyone can make a medal.

鈥淪o I think it鈥檚 all about us effectively. I鈥檓 not really fussed about what the Germans or the Americans of the Canadians or others have done. It鈥檚 about what we have done and I trust in what we have done.”

Britain’s lightweight men’s four features the Chambers brothers, Peter and Richard, from Coleraine in Northern Ireland. They are the first set of brothers to race in the same crew since the Searles’ win in Barcelona with cox Garry Herbert.

The brothers are joined in the lightweight men’s four at Eton-Dorney by Rob Williams, who completed a PhD in crystallography just a month ago, and Welshman Chris Bartley, a talented photographer and rowing coach. This crew won the season’s final world cup but know they will face stiff opposition, particularly from China, in this fiercely competitive event.

Richard, the elder of the two brothers, said: “We’ve had a good couple of camps and we’ve worked hard. We know that ours is聽a very competitive event and that even at semi-final stage we’ll see some real knuckledusters of races.”

All three men’s sculling boats will be in action on the opening day. Alan Campbell makes a trio of Coleraine connections when he races the men’s single scull. Campbell has been on the world cup and World Championships podium several times since making the final in Beijing.

Bill Lucas and Sam Townsend, both graduates of a GB Rowing Team “Start” talent identification and development system, are the new-look British double scull this season. The Devon-Reading combination are looking to improve on their world cup performances here.

“We have had two really good training camps in the past six weeks,” said Lucas. “The work camp in the mountains went really well and then we did some speed work in Portugal. We’ve made some technical progress.”

Townsend will marry team-mate Natasha Page, who races in the women’s eight at the Games, later next month.

Stephen Rowbotham and Matt Wells, Beijing double scull bronze medallists, race in 2012 in the men’s quad. They are joined by Olympic debutant Charles Cousins and Tom Solesbury who rowed in a pair in Beijing.

The final crew in action on opening day will be the men’s pair of Will Satch and George Nash. The talented duo, both former youth medallists, made an impact in their debut senior season this year and will look to upset the pre-existing form book here.

A further three boats will race opening heats on the second day – the women’s eight, lightweight women’s and men’s double scull. The latter will be raced by defending Beijing winners Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter.

Meantime, the women’s double scull, featuring world champions Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins, and the men’s four with world champion Alex Gregory and three Beijing gold medallists Andrew Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed and Tom James on board will race for the first time on Monday.

Watkins said today that the GB team were looking forward to racing, were enjoying the Olympic set-up and felt quite relaxed: “We have a very good set up within our own team and it’s a very familiar environment, we are keeping ourselves to ourselves.”

Grainger added: “For us it鈥檚 just a case of fulfilling our potential, which is what you want to do in an Olympic race, to be the fastest crew in the world. It鈥檚 more about going as fast as we possibly can – the actual result聽we don鈥檛 focus on because that will take care of itself. It鈥檚 more about how we race.”

Tom James, from the men’s four, said: “We’ve made some good changes to how we row and I think we learnt from our mistakes [at the last world cup] in Munich.”

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Crews listed Bow to Stroke followed by
(Club, Home Town, Date of Birth)

OPEN WOMEN

Pair
Helen Glover (Minerva Bath, Penzance, 17/06/86)
Heather Stanning (Army RC, Lossiemouth, 26/01/85)
Coach: Robin Williams

Eight
Olivia Whitlam (Agecroft RC, Warrington, 16/09/85)
Louisa Reeve (Leander Club, London, 17/05/84)
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)
Annabel Vernon (Leander Club, Wadebridge, 01/09/82)
Katie Greves (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

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)
Debbie Flood (Leander Club, Guiseley, W. Yorks, 27/02/80)
Frances Houghton (Leander Club, Oxford, 19/09/80)
Beth Rodford (Gloucester RC, Gloucester, 28/12/82)
Coach: Ade Roberts

Spares
Jo Cook (Leander Club, Sunbury-on-Thames, 22/03/84)
Emily Taylor (Leander Club, Lincoln, 28/06/87)

OPEN MEN

Pair
George Nash (Molesey BC, Guildford, 02/10/89)
Will Satch (Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames, 09/06/89)
Coaches: Christian Felkel & John West

Four
Alex Gregory (Leander Club, Wormington, 11/03/84)
Pete Reed (Leander Club, Nailsworth, Glos, 27/07/81)
Tom James (Molesey BC, Wrexham, 11/03/84)
Andrew Triggs Hodge (Molesey BC, Hebden, N. Yorks, 03/03/79)
Coach: J眉rgen Grobler

Eight
Alex Partridge (Leander Club, Alton, Hants, 25/01/81)
James Foad (Molesey BC, Southampton, 20/03/87)
Tom Ransley (York City RC, Cambridge, 06/09/85)
Richard Egington (Leander Club, Knutsford, 26/02/79)
Mohamed Sbihi (Molesey BC, Surbiton, 27/03/88)
Greg Searle (Molesey BC, Marlow, 20/03/72)
Matt Langridge (Leander Club, Northwich, 20/05/83)
Constantine Louloudis (Leander Club, London, 15/09/91)
Phelan Hill (cox) (Leander Club, Bedford, 21/07/79)
Coaches: Christian Felkel & John West

Single Scull
Alan Campbell (Tideway Scullers School, Coleraine, 09/05/83)
Coach: Bill Barry

Double Scull
Bill Lucas (London RC, Kingswear, Devon, 13/09/87)
Sam Townsend (Reading Univ BC, Reading, 26/11/85)
Coach: Mark Earnshaw

Quadruple Scull
Stephen Rowbotham (Leander Club, Winscombe, Somerset, 11/11/81)
Charles Cousins (Reading Univ BC, Willingham, Cambs, 13/12/88)
Tom Solesbury (Leander Club, Petts Wood, Kent, 23/09/90)
Matthew Wells (Leander Club, Hexham, Northumberland, 19/04/79)
Coach: Mark Banks

Spares
Marcus Bateman (Leander Club, Torquay, 16/09/82)
Cameron Nichol (Molesey BC, London, 26/06/87)

LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN

Double Scull
Sophie Hosking (London RC, Wimbledon, 25/01/86)
Katherine Copeland (Tees RC. Ingleby Barwick, Stockton-on-Tees, 01/12/90)
Coach: Paul Reedy

LIGHTWEIGHT MEN

Four
Peter Chambers (Oxford Brookes Univ BC, Coleraine, 14/03/90)
Rob Williams (London RC, Maidenhead, 21/01/85)
Richard Chambers (Leander Club, Coleraine, 10/06/85)
Chris Bartley (Leander Club, Chester, 02/02/84)
Coach: Rob Morgan

Double Scull

Zac Purchase (Marlow RC, Tewkesbury, 02/05/86)
Mark Hunter (Leander Club, Romford, Essex, 01/07/78)
Coach: Darren Whiter

Spare
Adam Freeman-Pask (Imperial College BC, Windsor, 19/6/85)

TEAM SUPPORT
David Tanner: Team Leader
Maurice Hayes: Equipment Manager
Ann Redgrave: Doctor
John Tetley: Boatman
Mark Edgar: Physio / Head of Rowing Medical Service
Caroline Searle: Press Officer
Sally Brown: Physio
Maggie Netto: Asst. Team Leader *
Liz Arnold: Physio
Jo Bates: Administrator *
Karen Burn: Physio *
Mark Homer: Sports Scientist
Craig Williams: Sports Scientist
Chris Shambrook: Psychologist *
Alistair Patterson: Performance Analyst *

* Non-Accredited Team Support

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CONTACT DETAILS

For interview requests with Team GB rowers and performance personnel contact Press Officer Caroline Searle on 07714 078658 or 07831 755351 or email caroline@matchtight.co.uk.

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EDITORS’ NOTES

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