2 University of Bath students selected for World U23 Champs
20th July 2006Adam Freeman-Pask and Dave Lyons of the University of Bath have both been selected to race in the World U23 Championships which begin today in Hazewinkel, Belgium, and continue until Sunday 23rd.
The event is an important milestone en route to full GB senior selection and many of Britain's Olympians have emerged first in this age group competition.
In 2005, GB won four of its five medals in lightweight events and the 2006 entry is also strong in these boat classes.
That means that Freeman-Pask will have a tough act to follow as Britain is the defending champions in his event the lightweight men¹s single. Freeman-Pask is a graduate of the ARA's World Class Start Programme, sponsored by Siemens, and which aims to find potential Olympians of the future.
Dave Lyons, meanwhile, competes in the men's coxed four a boat in which Britain has a proud tradition at recent world championships. He competes alongside Tom Wilkinson, and Nick Clarke of Leander Club as well as Rob Hollis of Oxford Brookes. The boat is coxed by Nick Brodie who was selected but then dropped as the Oxford Boat Race cox earlier this year and will now be looking to make amends on the international scene.
Heats are raced today in Hazewinkel with the repechages tomorrow, semi
finals on Saturday and finals on Sunday 23rd.
GB ROWING CREW LISTS WORLD U23 CHAMPIONSHIPS JULY 20-23RD
OPEN
WOMEN
Pair
Jacqui Round (St Neots)/Lizzie Hodges (Uni of London)
Coach: Nick Strange
Quadruple scull
Tina Stiller (NCRA)/Louisa Reeve (Durham Uni)/Franki
Jus-Burke (NCRA)/Frances Fletcher (Durham Uni)
Coach: Ade Roberts
MEN
Pair
Ben Smith (Imperial College)/Oli Moore
(Imperial College)
Coach: Seb Pearce
Four
Ryan Davies (Oxford Brookes)/Will Robinson (Oxford
Brookes)/James Orme (Leander)/Matt Tucker (Oxford
Brookes)
Coach: Pete Sheppard
Coxed four
Tom Wilkinson (Leander)/Nick Clarke (Leander)/
Rob Hollis (Oxford Brookes)/Dave Lyons (Uni of Bath)/
Nick Brodie (cox) (OUBC)
Coach: Peter Haining
Single Scull
Alex Gregory (Reading University)
Coach: Mark Earnshaw
Quadruple scull
James Dunley (Uni of London)/Jon Foster (Durham
Uni)/George Laughton (Newcastle Uni)/Ben Duggan (NCRA)
Coach: Angelo Savarino
LIGHTWEIGHT
WOMEN
Single scull
Sophie Hosking
Coach: Don Mclachlan
MEN
Pair
Richard Chambers (Oxford Brookes)/Chris Bartley
(Nottingham Uni)
Four
Marco Espin (London)/Rob Williams (London)/Doug
Perrin (CULRC)/Stephen Feeney (Newcastle Uni)
Coach: Nigel Muir
Single scull
Adam Freeman-Pask (Uni of Bath)
Coach: Paul Stannard