Britian’s most successful Olympic female rower and LYR board member, Katherine Grainger took gold at the Rowing World Cup in Banyoles, Spain at the weekend.
It is unusual for the women’s single to be made up of just six entries, but, in a post-Olympic year often boat dynamics change as coaches and athletes decide where their focus should lie. Grainger, who regularly wins Great Britain’s trials in the single, took the lead by the first 500m mark. Brett Sickler (US) slipped into second with Nuria Dominguez (Spain) and Frida Svensson (Sweden) going head to head for third. By the final 500m Svensson had dropped back slightly but then the Swede decided to pull out a sprint. At the line Grainger had finished first, Sickler second and Dominguez only just held on to third over Svensson.