2022 World Championships - Racice, Czech Republic
The Senior Championships returned after years of pandemic disruptions.
Australia still finished fourth on the medal tally behind Great Britain, the Netherlands and Italy. Sadly no gold medals were won. Five medals came from Olympic boat classes, men's double scull, women's four, men's four, women's scull and men's eight. The other three were in para classes, PR2 women's scull, PR2 women's pair and PR2 men's pair.
Men's Double Scull in the final
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Paul Thompson MBE, High Performance Director said, “There was some really spirited racing out there today and our three Bronze medals round off a World Championships where 25 team members won medals and stood on the podium from eight medal boats.”
Thompson also commented and said, "The boats were diversely spread across the team, men, women, and para squads and in sculling and sweep. Our rowers did us proud in all of the boats and fought really well. Our focus now is to look at the lessons learned, what improvements need to be made and start preparing for next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Qualification World Championships regatta in Serbia.”
Women's Four
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Men's Four on podium
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Images of the Australian team at 2022 World Cup 3 at Lucerne and at 2022 Henley Royal Regatta can be found through these links.
Daily Results Summaries
Results—Men & Mixed
Men's Lightweight Double Scull
Results—Women
Women's Lightweight Double Scull
Australian Team
Men's Scull - Twelfth
Jack Cleary
Coach: Lyall McCarthy OAM (NTC)
Men's Double Scull - Bronze
Bow: David Bartholot (NSW)
Str: Caleb Antill (ACT)
Coach: Lyall McCarthy OAM (NTC)
Men's Pair - Fifth
Bow: Harley Moore (QLD)
Str: Alexander Hill OAM (SA)
Coach: Lyall McCarthy OAM (NTC)
Men's Four - Silver
Bow: Alexander Purnell OAM (NSW)
2: Spencer Turrin OAM (NSW)
3: Jack Hargreaves OAM (NSW)
Str: Joseph (Jack) O’Brien (NSW)
Coach: Rhett Ayliffe (NTC)
Men’s Eight - Bronze
Bow: Rohan Lavery (VIC)
2: Nicholas Lavery (VIC)
3: Henry Youl (TAS)
4: Benjamin Canham (VIC)
5: Angus Widdicombe (VIC)
6: Timothy Masters (VIC)
7: Sam Hardy (NSW)
Str: Jackson Kench (NSW)
Cox: Kendall Brodie (NSW)
Coach: Mark Prater (NTC)
Men's Lightweight Scull - Ninth
Hamish Harding (ACT)
Coach: David Fraumano (ACTAS)
Men's Lightweight Double Scull - Sixteenth
Bow: Red Matthews (VIC)
Str: Oscar McGuinness (SA)
Coach: David Fraumano (ACTAS)
Men's PR1 Scull - Fourth
Erik Horrie OAM (NSW)
Coach: Jason Baker OAM (NSW)
Men's PR3 Pair - Silver
Bow: Nicholas Neales (ACT)
Str: James Talbot (NSW)
Coach: Gordon Marcks (NTC)
Mixed PR3 Coxed Four - Fourth
Bow: Jessica Gallagher (VIC)
2: Alexandra Viney (VIC)
3: Thomas Birtwhistle (NSW)
Str: James Talbot (NSW)
Coxswain: Teesaan Koo (VIC)
Coach: Gordon Marcks (NTC)
Women’s Scull - Bronze
Tara Rigney (NSW)
Coach: Ellen Randell (NTC)
Women’s Quadruple Scull - Sixth
Bow: Harriet Hudson (NSW)
2: Rowena Meredith (NSW)
3: Katrina Bateman (VIC)
Str: Kathryn Rowan (QLD)
Coach: John Keogh (NTC)
Women’s Pair - Ninth
Bow: Georgie Gleeson (VIC)
Str: Eliza Gaffney (VIC)
Coach: John Keogh (NTC)
Women’s Four - Bronze
Bow: Lucy Stephan OAM (VIC)
2: Katrina Werry (VIC)
3: Bronwyn Cox (WA)
Str: Annabelle McIntyre OAM (WA)
Coach: John Keogh (NTC)
Women’s Eight - Fifth
Bow: Eleanor Price (NSW)
2: Jean Mitchell (VIC)
3: Paige Barr (VIC)
4: Jacqueline Swick (WA)
5: Ella Bramwell (SA)
6: Giorgia Patten (WA)
7: Georgina Rowe (NSW)
Str: Emma Fessey (NSW)
Cox: Talia Barnet-Hepples (NSW)
Coach Tom Westgarth (NTC)
Lightweight Women’s Single Scull - Seventeenth
Georgia Nesbitt (TAS)
Coach: Ellen Randell (NTC)
Lightweight Women’s Double Scull - Tenth
Bow: Anneka Reardon (ACT)
Str: Lucy Coleman (NSW)
Coach: Ellen Randell (NTC)
PR2 Women’s Single Scull - Silver
Kathryn Ross (ACT)
Coach: Renae Domaschenz (ACT)
PR3 Women's Pair - Silver
Bow: Alex Vuillermin
Stroke: Alexandra Viney
Coach: Gordon Marcks (NTC)
Vuillermin and Viney enjoy the podium
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Reserves:
Laura Gourley (NSW)
Patrick Holt (NSW)
Simon Keenan (VIC)
Support Team
Paul Thompson MBE - High Performance Director
Wayne Diplock - Team Manager
Rhett Ayliffe preparing boats
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