Marlow rowers strike GOLD!

By Lizstout | Tuesday, September 06, 2011, 17:20

Buckinghamshire rowers are celebrating after winning three gold medals at the World Rowing Championships in Slovenia. The competition resulted in a record breaking 14 medlas for the GB Rowing Team ahead of next year's Olympics.

(from left - Zac Purchase & Mark Hunter celebrate Gold.
Gold medal winners (from left - Pam Relph, Naomi Riches, David Smith, James Roe & Lily van den Broecke.

Marlow Rowing Club's Katherine Grainger and Zac Purchase both successfully defended their world titles in the women's double scull and the men's lightweight double scull with partners Anaa Watkins and Mark Hunter.

Fellow Marlow rower, Naomi Riches and Pamela Relph from Aylesbury also won Gold in the Paralympics class adaptive mixed coxed four with David Smith from Dumfermline, James Roe from Stratford Upon Avon and Oxford Cox, Lily van den Broecke.

Olympian Greg Searle continued his quest for another medal at 2012, 20 years after winning Gold in Barcelona, with a second world silver in as many years on the men's eight.

And Aylesbury-born Andy Triggs Hodge, who won Gold in Beijing in the four, fueled rumours of a return after winning silver in the men's pair with Pete Reed.

Great Britains overall tally at the event in the Olympic classes was three Golds, three Silvers and four Bronzes, with the International classes and the Paralympic classes also providing two Golds apiece.