Australian Rowing Team confirmed for World Rowing Cup 2
17 Australian crews set to compete in Poznan, Poland from 21 to 23 June
The Australian Rowing Team will begin its World Rowing Cup campaign later this week with the team set to field 17 crews at World Rowing Cup 2. The regatta will run from 21 to 23 June on Lake Malta, in Poznan, Poland.
The majority of the Australian Rowing Team was announced in March this year, with the selectors having now finalised their sweep crews for World Rowing Cup 2.
2016 Rio Olympic silver medallists from the Men’s Four, Alexander Hill and Joshua Booth, have been selected into the Men’s Pair, while two-time World Rowing Champion, Jack Hargreaves, is joined in the Men’s Four by Nicholas Purnell, Timothy Masters and Jack O’Brien.
The Men’s Eight has seen two-time World Champions, in the Men’s Four, Spencer Turrin and Joshua Hicks, join its ranks. The duo are joined in the crew by Angus Widdicombe, James Medway, Angus Moore, Robert Black, Simon Keenan, Liam Donald and coxswain Kendall Brodie.
Meanwhile, in the women’s sweep, Annabelle McIntryre and Olympian Jessica Morrison will combine to race the Women’s Pair, before then joining the Women’s Eight. The new look Eight for 2019, sees 2018 World Rowing Championships silver medallist, Molly Goodman, in the stroke seat, with the South Australian joined by Leah Saunders, Jacinta Edmunds, Bronwyn Cox, Georgina Rowe, Rosemary Popa and coxswain James Rook.
The Women’s Four for World Rowing Cup 2, features 2018 World Rowing Championships silver medallists in the boat class – Lucy Stephan, Sarah Hawe and Katrina Werry – with the trio joined by Olympia Aldersey.
Rowing Australia Performance Director Bernard Savage said, “We’re looking forward to the team competing in its first World Rowing Cup of the season. The men and women arrived at the AIS European Training Centre last week, joining up with para-rowing World Champion Erik Horrie, with the group settling in well to our European training base.
“We’ve a big team that is excited to get out there and get racing against the rest of the world. This is our first major event (for our non-para-rowers) on the world stage ahead of what is going to be a big year for the Australian Rowing Team with the World Rowing Championships coming up in August – an event that doubles as Olympic and Paralympic qualification.”
Rowing Australia will be sharing daily racing updates and audio commentary and finals live-streaming can be accessed via www.worldrowing.com
Australian Rowing Team for World Rowing Cup 2 – Poznan, Poland (21 to 23 June)
| Name and Boat | Current Club/Institute/State |
| Lightweight Men’s Single Scull | |
| Sean Murphy | Mosman RC/NSWIS/NSW |
| Lightweight Men’s Double Scull | |
| Hamish Parry | Toowong RC/QAS/QLD |
| Leon Chambers | Sydney University BC/NSWIS/NSW |
| Men’s Pair | |
| Joshua Booth | Melbourne University BC/RBNTC/VIC |
| Alexander Hill | Adelaide RC/RBNTC/SA |
| Men’s Double Scull | |
| Hamish Playfair | UTS RC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Campbell Watts | Sydney University BC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Men’s Double Scull 2 | |
| Luke Letcher | Black Mountain RC/RBNTC/ACT |
| David Bartholot | Sydney University BC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Men’s Four | |
| Timothy Masters | UTS RC/RBNTC/VIC |
| Nicholas Purnell | Sydney University BC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Jack Hargreaves | Sydney University BC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Jack O’Brien | Sydney University BC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Men’s Quadruple Scull | |
| Caleb Antill | ANU BC/RBNTC/ACT |
| Cameron Girdlestone | Sydney University BC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Alexander Purnell | Sydney University BC/RBNTC/NSW |
| David Watts | Sydney RC/RBNTC/WA |
| Men’s Eight | |
| Liam Donald | Mercantile RC/RBNTC/VIC |
| Robert Black | Mosman RC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Angus Moore | Sydney RC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Joshua Hicks | Sydney RC/RBNTC/WA |
| Spencer Turrin | Sydney RC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Simon Keenan | Melbourne University BC/RBNTC/VIC |
| James Medway | UTS RC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Angus Widdicombe | Mercantile RC/RBNTC/VIC |
| Coxswain: Kendall Brodie | Sydney RC/ RBNTC/NSW |
| PR1 Men’s Single Scull | |
| Erik Horrie | Sydney RC/NSWIS/NSW |
| Lightweight Women’s Single Scull | |
| Georgia Nesbitt | Huon RC/HPNTC/TAS |
| Lightweight Women’s Double Scull | |
| Alice Arch | Melbourne University BC/VIS/VIC |
| Sarah Pound | UTS RC/HPNTC/NSW |
| Women’s Pair | |
| Jessica Morrison | Mercantile RC/HPNTC/VIC |
| Annabelle McIntyre | Fremantle RC/HPNTC/WA |
| Women’s Pair 2 | |
| Lilly Tinapple | Swan River RC/HPNTC/WA |
| Georgina Gotch | Sydney University BC/HPNTC/NSW |
| Women’s Double Scull | |
| Amanda Bateman | Mercantile RC/HPNTC/VIC |
| Genevieve Horton | Sydney University BC/HPNTC/NSW |
| Women’s Four | |
| Olympia Aldersey | Adelaide RC/HPNTC/SA |
| Katrina Werry | Mercantile RC/HPNTC/VIC |
| Sarah Hawe | Huon RC/HPNTC/VIC |
| Lucy Stephan | Melbourne University BC/HPNTC/VIC |
| Women’s Quadruple Scull | |
| Fiona Ewing | Sydney University BC/NSWIS/NSW |
| Cara Grzeskowiak | Capital Lakes RC/ACTAS/ACT |
| Rowena Meredith | Sydney University BC/NSWIS/NSW |
| Katrina Bateman | Mercantile RC/VIS/VIC |
| Women’s Eight | |
| Leah Saunders | Sydney RC/HPNTC/NSW |
| Jacinta Edmunds | Commercial RC/HPNTC/QLD |
| Bronwyn Cox | UWA Boat Club/HPNTC/WA |
| Georgina Rowe | UTS RC/HPNTC/NSW |
| Rosemary Popa | Banks RC/HPNTC/VIC |
| Annabelle McIntyre | Fremantle RC/HPNTC/WA |
| Jessica Morrison | Mercantile RC/HPNTC/VIC |
| Molly Goodman | Adelaide RC/HPNTC/SA |
| Coxswain: James Rook | Mercantile RC/HPNTC/VIC |
| Reserves | |
| Ciona Wilson | Tamar RC/HPNTC/TAS |
| Sam Hardy | Sydney RC/RBNTC/NSW |
| Coaches | Boats |
| Reinhold Batschi Men’s National Training Centre | |
| Head Coach: Ian Wright | Men’s Pair and Men’s Four |
| Senior Coach: Mark Prater | Men’s Single, Double and Quadruple Sculls |
| Senior Coach: Andrew Randell | Men’s Eight |
| Coach: Don McLachlan | Lightweight Men’s Single and Double Sculls |
| Hancock Prospecting Women’s National Training Centre | |
| Head Coach: John Keogh | Women’s Eight |
| Senior Coach: Ellen Randell | Women’s Double Scull; Women’s Lightweight Single and Double Sculls |
| Senior Coach: Tom Westgarth | Women’s Pair and Women’s Four |
| Coach: Don McLachlan | Women’s Quadruple Scull |
| Para-rowing | |
| Coach: Jason Baker | PR1 Men’s Single Scull |
Key
RBNTC – Reinhold Batschi Men’s National Training Centre
HPNTC – Hancock Prospecting Women’s National Training Centre
NSWIS – New South Wales Institute of Sport
QAS – Queensland Academy of Sport
VIS – Victorian Institute of Sport
ACTAS – ACT Academy of Sport
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