CITY of Oxford took the
Wycliffe Head by storm ;ast Saturday, writes Mike Rosewell.
They entered seven crews and won six events,
five of these setting new records.
The record crews were the women's senior 2 eight,
senior 3 eight, senior 3 quad and senior 2 coxed four, plus the
men's senior 2 coxed four.
The record by the men's four was particularly |
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women's
senior 4 coxed four both winning in course bests.
Teddies also took gold in the men's senior 4 coxed.
Radley College had a day of near misses.
They achieved four second places, two of them in
one event when their two senior 3 eights recorded identical
times behind winners Bristol University.
The Radley elite eight looked favourites but were
disqualified for an |
overtaking
incident.
Meanwhile, the windy water at Boston staged the
third British assessment trials.
Jonno Devlin, of Oxford Brookes University, and
Oxford University Blue Robin Bourne-Taylor, from Tubney, near
Abingdon, were in the sixth and seventh-placed men's pairs
respectively.
Hugo Lee and Rob Hollis, of Oxford Brookes, raised
a few eyebrows by finishing |
10th
in the pairs.
Nearer to home, Brookes won the senior 3 eights and
fours at Henley Head.
Back in Boston, Frances Houghton, from heatlley,
who has been in the British team since the last Olympics, was
the fastest of all women in the single sculls.
Helen Casey, from Wallingford, was close behind
international partner Tracy Langlands in the lightweights. |
