Rowing teams named

The Australia senior, under-23 and junior rowing teams have been announced following the selection trails, with 16 NSWIS athletes included across the three teams.

Nine NSWIS athletes have been included on the Australian senior team to contest two world cup events before the world championships in Korea in June. Highlighting the selections are Olympic silver medallist James Chapman (men’s eight) and fellow Olympian Tess Gerrand (women’s coxless pair, women’s eight), and Paralympic silver medallist Erik Horrie (arms and shoulders single scull) and fellow Paralympian Kathryn Ross (trunk and arms double scull).

The Olympic and Paralympic duos are joined by fellow NSWIS athletes Nicholas Purnell, Alexander Belonogoff, Kieran Kolbeke (all men’s quad scull), and Spencer Turrin and Alexander Lloyd (men’s coxless four).

The selections on the senior rowing team are complemented by seven NSWIS athletes being selected in the Australia under-23 rowing team.

Selected on the team were Jack Hargreaves, Tom Sacre, Nicholas Wheatley (all men’s coxed eight); Georgina Gotch (women’s coxed eight); Sarah Pound (women’s lightweight quad scull) and Jessie Allen and Genevieve Horton (women’s coxless pair).

Allen and Horton were also selected in the Australian junior rowing team.