Four Medals for GB Team at 2019 European Rowing Championships
Posted: 10/06/2019
GB's men's four, of Ollie Cook, Matt Rossiter, Rory Gibbs and Sholto Carnegie took Gold, GB's first European gold medal since 2017. The crew went into the final as fastest qualifiers.
The men's and women's eights both took Silver medals in the final two races of the day.
The women's eights saw a suberb race for the gold medal, with GB'a Fiona Gammond, Zoe Lee, Josephine Wratten,Hattie Taylor, Rowan McKellar, Rebecca Shorten, Karen Bennett, Holly Norton and cox Matilda Horn finishing six hundredths of a second behind Romania to take the Silver.
The men's eight, of Tom Ford, James Rudkin, Tom George, Mohamed Sbihi, Jacob Dawson, Ollie Wynne-Griffith, Mat Tarrant, Josh Bugajski and cox Henry Fieldman, finished less than a second behind the German crew to take Silver.
And the men's quad, of Jack Beaumont, Jonny Walton, Angus Groom and Pete Lambert came away with a Bronze medal.