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Posted: August 26, 2016

Two more Scottish athletes won a silver medal apiece for GB today at the U23 World Championships in Rotterdam.

Calum Irvine (Edinburgh University/Aviemore) and Robert Hurn (Leander Club/Glasgow) were part of the men’s eight that had produced a storming performance in their semi-final to go into today’s medal showdown in confident mood.

They knew their biggest challenge was likely to come from the Netherlands and so it proved as the home favourites stormed out of the blocks, moving a length up on the field inside the opening 500m.

The British found themselves in fourth at that point but began to find their rhythm and pushed through the field, taking second spot with 750m to go. The Dutch had maintained their clear advantage, though, and it was only in the latter stages that GB began to create an overlap.

They were now the quickest boat on the water but had left it too late to challenge for gold.

It was the first U23 medal for a GB men’s eight since 2011, when a crew featuring future Rio 2016 Olympic Champion Will Satch won bronze.

Today’s medals took GB’s tally up to six, matching their total from Plovdiv, Bulgaria last year.

Scotland's Gavin Horsburgh and University of Edinburghs' Matthew Curtis will return home with a gold medal from yesterday's lightweight quad final. Lewis McCue won silver in yesterday's men’s four final.

Sir David Tanner, British Rowing’s Performance Director and Overall Team Leader in Rotterdam, said: “With six medals, including two great golds and three strong silvers, we can be proud with our young rowers at these Championships.

“There is real promise in this team and I am sure that we have some exceptional talent here to challenge for senior team places at we start the Tokyo Olympiad.”

It is the turn of the seniors to challenge for medals on Saturday, with five GB crews contesting the finals.

The men’s coxed pair of Ollie Cook, Callum McBrierty and cox Henry Fieldman race at 11.10am BST

Britain are defending champions in both that boat class and the lightweight men’s pair, with Joel Cassells and Sam Scrimgeour bidding to hold onto their title at 11.55am BST.

Brianna Stubbs, Emily Craig, Imogen Walsh and Ellie Piggott all won silver medals at last year’s World Championships and will be looking to upgrade those in the lightweight women’s quadruple scull final at 12.10pm BST.

Saturday afternoon sees the focus move back to the Junior World Championships, with five GB crews racing in semi-finals – the women’s four, men’s four, women’s quad, men’s quad and men’s pair.

RESULTS

(Events featuring GB Rowing Team crews only. For full results - www.worldrowing.com)

U23 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS

A FINALS

OPEN WOMEN

Eight

1. United States 6:36.90
2. Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne/Alice Bowyer/Emily Ford/Chloe Brew/Holly Hill/Madeline Badcott/Anna Thornton/Heidi Long/Sasha Adwani (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:44.06
3. Russia 6:45.50
4. New Zealand 6:45.81
5. Australia 6:52.55
6. Germany 6:54.51

Double scull

1. Mathilda Hodgkins-Bryne/Jess Leyden (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:23.46
2. Tatsiana Klimovich/Krystina Staraselets (Belarus) 7:29.26
3. Viviana-Iuliana Bejinariu/Ioana Vrinceanu (Romania) 7:31.22
4. Eliza Kallfelz/Emily Kallfelz (USA) 7:34.00
5. Frieda Haemmerling/Julia Leiding (Germany) 7:40.84
6. Emma Kiehn/Astrid Steensberg (Denmark) 7:43.02

MEN

Eight

1. Netherlands 5:54.10
2. Calum Irvine/Oliver Wynne-Griffith/Matthew Benstead/Timothy Livingstone/David Bewicke-Copley/Sholto Carnegie/Robert Hurn/Arthur Doyle/Ian Middleton (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 5:57.26
3. Germany 5:59.23
4. Ukraine 6:01.77
5. Romania 6:02.34
6. Italy 6:02.38

Single scull

1. Tim Ole Naske (Germany) 7:23.37
2. Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczyk (Poland) 7:26.21
3. Michal Plocek (Czech Republic) 7:28.25
4. Emil Freudenthal (Sweden) 7:31.95
5. Tom Barras (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:33.78
6. Andrey Potapkin (Russia) 7:34.04

Quadruple scull

1. Robert Black/Caleb Antill/Luke Letcher/Thomas Schramko (Australia) 6:07.51
2. Jordan Parry/Cameron Crampton/Oliver Stephens/Jack O’Leary (New Zealand) 6:07.97
3. Ivan Capuano/Luca Rambaldi/Emanuele Fiume/Giacomo Gentili (Italy) 6:08.97
4. Patryk Przekopski/Marcin Pawlowski/Dominik Czaja/Jakub Dominiczak (Poland) 6:09.77
5. Harry Leask/Rowan Law/Harry Glenister/Andrew Joel (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:12.70
6. Henrik Runge/Steven Weidner/David Junge/Kai Fuhrmann (Germany) 6:14.38

LIGHTWEIGHT

MEN

Four

1. Alberto Di Seyssel/Steffano Oppo/Piero Sfiligoi/Paolo Di Girolamo (Italy) 6:19.29
2. Hendrik Kaltenborn/Fabio De Oliveira/Felix Brummel/Alexander Kevin Diedrich (Germany) 6:21.49
3. Edward Fisher/Benjamin Reeves/Jonathan Jackson/Alistair Douglass (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:25.22
4. Remigiusz Biernacki/Mateusz Kraska/Lukasz Stasiewicz/Rafal Nalewalski (Poland) 6:28.66
5. Takumi Shiga/Yasushi Fakui/Ryuta Arakawa/Kakeru Sato (Japan) 6:28.98
6. Vincent Raths/Andri Struzina/Julian Mueller/Pascal Ryser (Switzerland) 6:33,94

Single scull

1. Niels Van Zandweghe (Belgium) 7:31.96
2. Jonathan Rommelmann (Germany) 7:32.85
3. Alexis Lopez Garcia (Mexico) 7:37.80
4. Federico Gherzi (Italy) 7:40.44
5. Ask Jarl Tjoem (Norway) 7:42.08
6. Sam Mottram (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:46.93

JUNIOR WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS

QUARTER-FINALS

JUNIOR MEN

Double scull – Q1

1. Emanuele Giarri/Marcello Caldonazzo (Italy) 6:42.63
2. Omer Oner/Enes Yenipazarli (Turkey) 6:48.34
3. Ronan Byrne/Daire Lynch (Ireland) 6:48.41
4. Rory Harris/George Lawton (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:51.34
5. Nikola Popov/Atanas Naydenov (Bulgaria) 6:59.97
6. Jeffery Schlyer/Connor Donadio (USA) 7:06.81

Quadruple scull – Q4

1. David Orner/Andrew Le Roux/Zachary Skypeck/Clark Dean (USA) 6:10.31
2. Niels Frederiksen/Oscar Mazza/Mikkel Knudsen/Emil Eigenbrod (Denmark) 6:12.34
3. James Mawby/Thomas Digby/Josh Armstrong/Nick Plaut (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:13.60
4. Kostiantyn Prodan/Serhii Sokhatski/Pavlo Doshchenko/Pavlo Yurchenko (Ukraine) 6:14.29
5. Jonas Juel/Martin Steinnes/Nicolay Yngsdal/Lars Benske (Norway) 6:21.58
6. Shoudu Qin/Haiyang Liu/Jiaqi Zhou/Yingli Qi (China) 6:27.49

REPECHAGE

JUNIOR MEN

Pair – R4

1. Ethan Blight/Thomas Russel (New Zealand) 7:25.13
2. Alexander Wythe/Adam Teece (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:27.54
3. Jan Christian Nelis/Wiebe Jacob Veenstra (Netherlands) 7:29.94
4. Lautaro Barrios/Franco Calvo (Argentina) 7:31.27