I hope you will all put your hands together and congratulate everyone who competed at the British Championships over the weekend. Good effort all round but a couple of performances deserve special mention. Firstly to the girls in the Junior Women’s Quad Scull (Jordan Cole-Hossain – Stroke, Lottie Hudson – 3 seat, Rebecca Eno – 2 seat and Phoebe Fisher in the bow seat). Though they had a little incident off the start with a pesky buoy they recovered quickly and spent the first 1000m working alongside the Scottish selected crew, they proved to much for the scots though and broke them in the middle of the race, pushing onto win comfortably. Well Done girls and for being selected to represent England this weekend at the Home International Regatta. Another mention should go to Paul and Jordan who with outstanding performances in there heats saw them avoid the Re-percharge and go straight to the final in there singles races. However doubling up is always tough and with only a couple of hours between there singles races and the quad races, they finished a close 4th for Paul (last couple of strokes it could have been the bronze) and 5th for Jordan. Really well done guys.
Other performances include
J17 Single Scull - Dimeji in his first ever 2k race may have come last in his heat but his time would have achieved a first or 2nd in any of the 3 other heats.
J16 Single Scull – Tomas Simonds-Gooding finished 4th in his Semi-Final a good improvement on last year
WJ18 Double Scull – Rebecca Eno and Phoebe Fisher were knocked out in the re-percharge, The heat was there best race to date.
Open Junior Quadruple Scull – Demiji Ogonyoye, Liam Downes, Tom S-G and Paul Jones were also knocked out in the Re-percharge but was great to see them come off the water being proud of there performance.