Date
Date(s) - 15 Aug 2024 until 19 Aug 2024
Location
Plovdiv Regatta Course
Category(ies)
Details: The next generation of the GB Rowing Team race in this year’s World Junior Championships, inspired by the record successes of the senior squad at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The 29-strong squad know performances in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at the Championships for Under 18s could see them on a fast track for Rio 2016, hoping to emulate 21-year-old Kat Copeland who won rowing gold for GB at London 2012.
Team manager John Layng said: “They are a very mature group of rowers who have been working extremely hard on the training camp and they’re all itching to get out to Bulgaria.”
The squad includes Ed Munno from Bedford who won silver in the junior men’s eight at the 2011 World Juniors at Eton Dorney which doubled as the Olympic test event.
Jessica Leyden, Katie Bartlett and Lucy Burgess also race at their second Championships, this time with Joanna Unsworth in the junior women’s quadruple scull.
Munno’s crewmates in the junior men’s eight for 2012, Charlie Shaw and Callum Jones also raced last year, in the coxed four and four respectively. Alexander Lloyd and Robert Wickstead won silver with Munno in the 2011 eight and race together in the four this year.
More info: www.worldrowing.com
Image courtsey of Intersport Images/GB Rowing
