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Posted: August 27, 2016

Scottish athletes featured in two of three gold medal winning crews as the GB Rowing Team recorded a golden hat-trick on Saturday, finishing top of the medal table at the Senior World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam.

Ollie Cook, Callum McBrierty (Leander Club/Edinburgh) and cox Henry Fieldman successfully defended GB’s title in the men coxed pair with a storming victory.

The lightweight women’s quadruple scull of Brianna Stubbs, Emily Craig, Imogen Walsh (London RC/Inverness) and Ellie Piggott powered away from Germany to upgrade on last year’s silver medal.

The women’s four also went one better than the silver won by GB in 2015, while Joel Cassells and Sam Scrimgeour (Imperial College BC/Kirriemuir) were just edged into bronze-medal position after a thrilling three-way tussle in the lightweight men’s pair final.

Sir David Tanner, British Rowing’s Performance Director and Overall Team Leader in Rotterdam, said: “We have had a really good day for our senior boats, with three golds and a bronze medal improving on the good results from last year’s World Championships.

“Our rowers have sent out a strong message for next season and beyond – well done.”

McBrierty said: “If we had to define our perfect race, we almost had it down to a tee today. We were relentless with every stroke.”

Walsh, who repeated her 2011 success in the lightweight quad, added: “I have so much trust and respect for these girls and I never doubted we could do it. This is a fitting end to what has been a really fun and exciting project.”

The four medals continued a successful week for Britain at the combined World Championships and added to the two gold, three silver and one bronze won by the U23s in their competition.

An action-packed regatta concludes on Sunday with the finals of the Junior World Championships.

GB will be represented in four finals after the women’s four, men’s four and women’s quad made impressive progress through Saturday afternoon’s semi-finals to join the men’s eight, who had already qualified by winning their heat on Wednesday.

RESULTS

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

SENIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

A FINALS

OPEN

WOMEN

Four

1. Fiona Gammond/Donna Etiebet/Holly Nixon/Holly Norton (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:16.28
2. Molly Bruggeman/Emily Huelskamp/Corinne Schoeller/Kristine O’Brien (USA) 7:21.53
3. Melanie Hansen/Ronja Schuette/Charlotte Reinhardt/Lea-Kathleen Kuehne (Germany) 7:26.15
4. Alena Furman/Marharyta Krechka/Tatsiana Piharava/Darya Marchanka (Belarus) 7:33.61
5. Ting Zhang/Hongjing Sun/Yangyang Li/Sunyan Teng (China) 7:35.01
6. Michelle Truax/Sarah Black/Kirstin Bauder/Kerry Shaffer (Canada) 7:38.59

MEN

Coxed pair

1. Oliver Cook/Callum McBrierty/Henry Fieldman (cox) (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:29.69
2. Andrew Stewart-Jones/Benjamin De Wit/Kevin Chung (cox) (Canada) 7:32.05
3. Mario Paonessa/Vincenzo Capelli/Andrea Riva (cox) (Italy) 7:32.22
4. Roel Braas/Mitchel Steenman/Peter Wiersum (cox) (Netherlands) 7:32.98
5. Yohann Rigogne/Thomas Pestek/Louis Lombardi Jr (cox) (USA) 7:37.95
6. Javier Garcia Ordonez/Ismael Montes/Tomas Jurado Diaz (Spain) 7:54.31

LIGHTWEIGHT

WOMEN

Quadruple scull

1. Brianna Stubbs/Emily Craig/Imogen Walsh/Ellie Piggott (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:10.60
2. Judith Anlauf/Leonie Pieper/Lena Reuss/Katrin Thoma (Germany) 7:12.45
3. Xulian Xuan/Weixao Zhang/Weimiao Zhang/Xiaohua Yan (China) 7:21.04
4. Jenna Pelham/Sydney Boyes/Jill Moffatt/Kathryn Twyman (Canada) 7:23.57
5. Ashley Amos/Monica Whitehouse/Morgan McGovern/Emily Schmieg (USA) 7:26.24

MEN

Pair

1. Augustin Mouterde/Alexis Guerinot (France) 7:14.18
2. Emil Espensen/Jens Vilhelmsen (Denmark) 7:15.30
3. Joel Cassells/Sam Scrimgeour (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:16.49
4. Mark O’Donovan/Shane O’Driscoll (Ireland) 7:24.60
5. Lei Li/Zhongwei Li (China) 7:32.48
6. Andrew Weiland/Peter Gibson (USA) 7:36.91

Quadruple scull

1. Patrick Stoecker/Florian Roller/Johannes Ursprung/Cedric Kulbach (Germany) 6:23.09
2. Francois Teroin/Damien Piquefras/Maxime Demontfaucon/Morgan Maunoir (France) 6:24.72
3. Georgios Konsolas/Spyridon Giannaros/Panagiotis Magdanis/Eleftherios Konsolas (Greece) 6:26.58
4. Roman Fedorenko/Stanislav Kovalov/Serhii Siabro/Igor Khmara (Ukraine) 6:28.63
5. Steffen Jensen/Andrej Bendtsen/Jens Nielsen/Mathias Larsen (Denmark) 6:29.68
6. Charles Waite-Roberts/Jamie Copus/Jamie Kirkwood/Zak Lee-Green (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:31.71

B FINAL

LIGHTWEIGHT

WOMEN

Single scull

1. Patricia Merz (Switzerland) 8:44.92
2. Aja Runge Holmegaard (Denmark) 8:49.39
3. Georgia Nesbitt (Australia) 8:49.65
4. Leonie Pless (Austria) 8:56.94
5. Eveline Peleman (Belgium) 8:59.31
6. Gemma Hall (GREAT BRITAIN) 9:01.11

JUNIOR WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS

SEMI-FINALS

JUNIOR WOMEN

Four – SF1

1. Abigail Tarquino/Sarah Ondak/Kelsey McGinley/India Robinson (USA) 7:48.67
2. India Somerside/Bryony Lawrence/Frances Russell/Alex Rankin (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:58.55
3. Kate Haines/Charlotte Spence/Georgia Smith/Ella Simanu (New Zealand) 8:02.63
4. Fieke Francesca Verhaaf/Naomi Franka Visser/Femke Van de Vliet/Anne Klok (Netherlands) 8:08.67
5. Sara Bugajska/Barbara Wojtarowicz/Paulina Grzella/Joanna Kocikowska (Poland) 8:13.65
6. Aria Cvitanovic/Izabela Krakic/Bruna Milinovic/Julia McCullough (Croatia) 8:48.47

Quadruple scull – SF1

1. Annabel Stevens/Lola Anderson/Sheyi Blackett/Lucy Glover (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:25.39
2. Luise Asmussen/Paula Vosgerau/Anneke Mau/Maren Voelz (Germany) 7:27.72
3. Ioanna Bitzilaiou/Elisavet Anastasia Bourmpou/Dimitra-Sofia Tsamopoulou/Maria Pergouli (Greece) 7:30.21
4. Larisa Elena Rosu/Adriana Ailincai/Andreea Grapinoiu/Ioana-Madalina Morosan (Romania) 7:33.79
5. Stine Eilert Mathiasen/Emma Sophie Hammer/Mette Koechs Nielsen/Liane Vestergaard (Denmark) 7:52.67
6. Sofia Meakin/Olivia Negrinotti/Larissa Conrad/Jana Nussbaumer (Switzerland) 7:56.53

JUNIOR MEN

Men’s pair – SF2

1. Ioannis Kalandaridis/Ninos Nikolaidis (Greece) 7:31.50
2. Joseph Johnson/Christian Tabash (USA) 7:38.31
3. Sandro Torrente/Alexander Julicher (South Africa) 7:39.31
4. Nikolay Zhelyazkov/Stanimir Haladzhov (Bulgaria) 7:45.16
5. Francisco Gonzalez/Adolfo Peralta (Mexico) 7:47.77
6. Alexander Wythe/Adam Teece (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:54.57

Men’s four – SF1

1. Oscar Lindsay/James Plaut/Oswald Stocker/Freddie Davidson (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:50.05
2. Edoardo Lanzavecchia/Matteo Della Valle/Edoardo Benini/Raffaele Serio (Italy) 6:51.63
3. Vasileios Koukoutis/Athanasios Palaiopanos/Apostolos Giannatzis/Georgios Stamos (Greece) 6:56.06
4. Artsem Lipski/Yauheni Maiseyev/Danila Beliakou/Anton Bahinski (Belarus) 7:01.12
5. Murodjon Khodjimatov/Evgeniy Agafonov/Jasurbek Mavlanov/Alisher Turdiev (Uzbekistan) 7:11.25
6. Remi Crosbie/Gatien Didry/Guillaume Lescoulier/Tristan Lautrette (France) 7:15.68

Men’s quadruple scull – SF1

1. Maite Engelbracht/Matthias Fischer/Jan Berend/Simon Schlott (Germany) 6:39.50
2. Mark Taylor/Thomas Cummack/Samuel Monkley/Oliver Maclean (New Zealand) 6:41.04
3. Niels Frederiksen/Oscar Mazza/Mikkel Knudsen/Emil Eigenbrod (Denmark) 6:45.27
4. Maximilian Brenner/Jackson Kench/Thomas Barnes/Pasha Bevan (Australia) 6:52.03
5. James Mawby/Thomas Digby/Josh Armstrong/Nick Plaut (GREAT BRITAIN) 6:52.38
6. Vladimir Lavrentev/Egor Koval/Aleksandr Kuniakin/Vladimir Iashin (Russia) 6:52.67

C FINAL

JUNIOR MEN

Double scull

1. Jakob Lillelund/Bastian Secher (Denmark) 7:26.77
2. Rory Harris/George Lawton (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:32.78
3. Beniton Salazar Galan/Daniel de la Rosa Vanegas (Mexico) 7:37.49
4. Rain Harjus/Mikhail Kushteyn (Estonia) 7:42.01
5. Panagiotis Psarros/Aristeidis Grammeniatis (Greece) 7:49.49
6. Xinxin Chi/Pujiang Zhang (China) 7:52.77

C/D SEMI-FINAL

JUNIOR MEN

Double scull – SF1

1. Rory Harris/George Lawton (GREAT BRITAIN) 7:19.41
2. Panagiotis Psarros/Aristeidis Grammeniatis (Greece) 7:22.84
3. Xinxin Chi/Pujiang Zhang (China) 7:24.76
4. Armands Celmins/Janis Timbors (Latvia) 7:26.15
5. Jongmin Lee/Seonggwan Lee (Korea) 7:36.12
6. Jeffery Schyler/Connor Donadio (USA) 7:38.44