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Posted: 1 September, 2019

With Edinburgh’s Olympic silver medallist Karen Bennett and Glasgow’s Rowan McKellar in the engine room, the British women’s eight finished fifth in Sunday’s last race of the World Rowing Championships in Linz Ottensheim, Austria.

Although the crew was disappointed to finish out of the medals, they did beat Romania to grab the crucial fifth and last Olympic Qualification slot. Ahead of them New Zealand took gold, Australia took silver and the United States won bronze, with Canada in fourth place.

This result means that all seven Scottish Rowing members of the British team – silver medal lightweight single sculler Maddie Arlett from Selkirk, bronze medal coxless four stroke Sholto Carnegie, Edinburgh’s Melissa Wilson in quad sculls, Edinburgh’s Polly Swann in coxless fours, Angus Groom in quad sculls, as well as Bennett and McKellar – successfully played their part in qualifying British boats for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Article by Mike Haggerty.

Posted: 31 August, 2019

Sholto Carnegie became the second Scottish Rowing medallist of the World Rowing Championships in Linz Ottensheim, Austria when he stroked the British men’s coxless four to a bronze medal behind winners Poland and Romania in Saturday’s finals.

Read more: World Championships Day 7 Report

Posted: 30 August, 2019

Edinburgh University’s Maddie Arlett from Selkirk won the British team’s first medal of the World Championships in Linz Ottensheim, Austria when she took bronze in Friday afternoon’s lightweight single sculls final.

Read more: Selkirk's Maddie Arlett wins GB Team's first medal of the World Championships in Linz Ottensheim

Posted: 30 August, 2019

The Scottish Rowing Annual General Meeting will take place on 13^th October at the Water Sports Centre, Strathclyde Park.  The formal notice of the meeting will be sent out in due course.

Resolutions from Club Members should be submitted in writing and in accordance with Article 9.6 by the close of business 12^th September, 2019.

Club Members are also invited to nominate candidates for two posts on the Scottish Rowing Board.   The first is the post of Director of Sport Governance, which is currently vacant.  The post of Director Of Development is also up for reappointment.  The current Director of Development, Caroline Parker has indicated her intention to stand for reappointment.

From 12pm, prior to the AGM, we will be running some short sessions to update clubs on some key areas of work including Competition and the Competition Calendar and the new Club Support Toolkit.  We would like to invite club representatives to come along and get involved in these.  There will also be a Safeguarding Workshop for CPOs running alongside these sessions.  Details of this will be circulated directly to CPOs shortly.

Posted: 29 August, 2019

There were mixed fortunes for the Scots involved in Thursday’s racing at the World Rowing Championships in Linz Ottensheim, Austria, with five of them reaching their “A” finals, and the other two now battling for Olympic Qualification places in the “B” finals.

Read more: World Championships Day 5 Report

Posted: 29 August, 2019

Thursday’s racing at the World Rowing Championships in Linz Ottensheim, Austria features a crucial two-hour period for all seven Scots competing, with places in the medal finals and Olympic qualifying slots up for grabs.

Read more: World Championships - Thursday preview