Event to be hosted in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 24 to 31 August
Rowing Australia today announced the Australian Rowing Team that will compete at this year’s World Rowing Championships to be held from 24 to 31 August in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Australia will have 19 boats, including three Para-rowing crews, at this year’s event and the team includes three reigning World Champion crews.
Kimberley Crow will return to this year’s World Championships to defend the Women’s Single Scull title she won last year in South Korea, while Erik Horrie (Arms and Shoulders Men’s Single Scull), Kathryn Ross and Gavin Bellis (Trunk and Arms Mixed Double Scull) will also be on the hunt to retain the titles they claimed last year.
Today’s announcement comes off the back of a review by the Australian Rowing Team selectors after the team’s recent performance at World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne and sees Western Australia’s Perry Ward take a seat in the Lightweight Men’s Single for the World Championships.
Along with Ward, Victorians Lucy Stephan and Charlotte Sutherland join the revised World Championships team, with the duo set to compete in the Women’s Coxless Pair on The Bosbaan.
The Para-Rowing Australian Rowing Team will also see an international debut at the World Rowing Championships, when Kathleen Murdoch and Jeremy McGrath compete in the Legs, Trunks and Arms Double Scull event.
National Performance Director, Chris O’Brien, said: “Today’s announcement sees a small revision in the team after the recent World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne. We are confident that the crews selected will further progress our endeavours to achieve medal outcomes in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.”
Australian Rowing Team for 2014 World Rowing Championships
| Boat type, athletes and coaches | Club, State and SIS/SAS (Tier 1, 2 or 3) |
| Men’s Sweep | |
| Men’s Lightweight Coxless Pair Alister Foot Darryn Purcell Coach: Brett Crow |
Tamar RC/TAS – TIS Toowong RC/QLD – TIS TAS |
| Men’s Lightweight Coxless Four Nicholas Silcox Samuel Beltz Blair Tunevitsch Thomas Gibson Coach: Brett Crow |
Toowong RC/QLD – TIS Lindisfarne RC/TAS – TIS Huon RC/TAS – TIS Huon RC/TAS – TIS TAS |
| Men’s Coxless Four Joshua Dunkley-Smith Fergus Pragnell Alexander Lloyd Spencer Turrin Coach: Thomas Laurich |
Mercantile RC/VIC – VIS Sydney University BC/NSW – VIS Sydney RC/NSW – NTC Canberra Sydney RC/NSW – NTC Canberra VIC |
| Men’s Coxed Eight William Lockwood Joshua Hicks Angus Moore Scott Laidler James Chapman David Crawshay Thomas Larkins Alexander Hill Coxswain – David Webster Coach: John Driessen |
Melbourne University RC/VIC – VIS Swan River RC/WA Canberra RC/ACT – NTC Canberra Dutton Park RC/QLD – QAS Sydney RC/NSW – NSWIS Mercantile RC/VIC – VIS Melbourne University RC/VIC – VIS Adelaide RC/SA – SASI Melbourne University BC/VIC – VIS TAS |
| Men’s Coxed Pair George Ellis Christopher Cunningham-Reid Coxswain – Timothy Webster Coach: John Driessen |
Melbourne University RC/VIC – VIS Sydney University BC/NSW Melbourne University BC/VIC – VIS TAS |
| Men’s Scull | |
| Men’s Lightweight Single Scull Perry Ward Coach: Mark Prater |
Swan River RC/WA-WAIS NSW |
| Men’s Single Scull Nicholas Purnell Coach: Timothy McLaren |
Sydney University BC/NSW – NSWIS NSW |
| Men’s Double Scull James McRae Alexander Belonogoff Coach: Rhett Ayliffe |
Murray Bridge RC/SA – SASI Sydney University BC/NSW – NTC Canberra WA |
| Men’s Quadruple Scull Christopher Morgan Rhys Grant Kieran Kobelke Cameron Girdlestone Reserve: John Linke Coach: Timothy McLaren |
Sydney RC/SA – NSWIS ANA RC/WA Mosman RC/NSW – NTC Canberra Sydney University RC/NSW Mercantile RC/VIC-VIS NSW |
| Women’s Sweep | |
| Women’s Coxless Pair Lucy Stephan Charlotte Sutherland Coach: Jaime Fernandez and Bill Tait |
Melbourne University RC/VIC-VIS Mercantile RC/VIC-VIS NTC Canberra and VIC |
| Women’s Coxed Eight Hannah Vermeersch Renee Chatterton Katrina Bateman Alexandra Hagan Pauline Frasca Molly Goodman Michelle Yann Kate Hornsey Coxswain – Elizabeth Patrick Coach: Jaime Fernandez and Bill Tait |
Western Australia RC/WA – WAIS Adelaide University RC/SA – SASI Mercantile RC/VIC – VIS Swan River RC/WA – WAIS Mercantile RC/VIC – VIS Adelaide RC/SA Mercantile RC/VIC Mercantile RC/TAS – VIS Melbourne University BC/VIC – VIS NTC Canberra and VIC |
| Women’s Scull | |
| Women’s Single Scull Kimberley Crow Coach: Lyall McCarthy |
Melbourne University RC/VIC -NTC Canberra NTC Canberra |
| Women’s Double Scull Olympia Aldersey Sally Kehoe Coach: Jason Lane |
Adelaide RC/SA – SASI Sydney University Women’s RC/QLD – SASI SA |
| Women’s Lightweight Double Scull Ella Flecker Alice McNamara Coach: Mark Fangen-Hall |
Huon RC/TAS – TIS Melbourne University RC/VIC – VIS VIC |
| Women’s Lightweight Double Scull Women’s Lightweight Quadruple Scull Sarah Pound Laura Dunn Hannah Every-Hall Maia Simmonds Coach: Ellen Randell |
UTS Sydney RC/NSW UTS Sydney RC/NSW Dutton Park RC/QLD – ACTAS UWA RC/WA – WAIS NSW |
| Women’s Quadruple Scull Kerry Hore Jennifer Cleary Jessica Hall Madeleine Edmunds Reserve: Fiona Albert Coach: Thomas Westgarth |
Huon RC/TAS – TIS Mercantile RC/VIC Brisbane & GPS RC/QLD – QAS Commercial RC/QLD – QAS Mercantile RC/QLD QLD |
| Para-Rowing crews | |
| Arms and Shoulders Men’s Single Scull (ASM1x) Erik Horrie Coach: Jason Baker |
Sydney RC/NSW – NSWIS NSW |
| Trunk and Arms Mixed Double Scull (TAMix2x) Kathryn Ross Gavin Bellis Coach: Gordon Marcks |
Lakes Rowers/VIC – NTC Canberra Powerhouse RC/VIC – NTC Canberra NTC Canberra |
| Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Double Scull (LTAMix2x) Kathleen Murdoch Jeremy McGrath Coach: Lindsay Callaghan |
Nepean RC/NSW Balmain RC/NSW NSW |
Notes
To keep up to date with how the ARTeam is doing at the event, visit www.worldrowing.com for their live-tracker application. While Fox Sports Australia will be broadcasting the event, please check local guides for details in due course.
Media looking for images of the team in action should contact Lucy Benjamin on [email protected]
Should you wish to tweet @RowingAust during the event, please use the official Australian Rowing Team hashtag #ARTeam. The event hashtag is #WRChamps. We will also be putting up images, when available, on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/RowingAustralia