Grainger takes gold at Rowing World Cup
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.
Youth Club in Hackney joins Row East London
LYR would like to welcome The Crib a fantastic youth organisation in Hackney into Row East London. After 2 of their youth workers spent a weekend learning all about indoor rowing and coaching. They qualified as Level 1 Indoor coaches and took charge of their new machines this week. They have decorated a room specially for the rowing machines and plan to get the young people from the local area not only rowing in the club but experiencing on water rowing at their local centre Lea Rowing Club in the summer holidays on our summer rowing course.