Scott Durant Selected for GB World Cup 2014 Eight

GB Rowing have announced the teams for the forthcoming rounds of the 2014 Rowing World Cup (GB Teams website link). Scott Durant (OL) has been selected for the bow seat of the GB Men's Eight.

This comes after a successful winter of GB Trials and a Bronze medal at the European Rowing Championships in Belgrade 2014 in the bow seat of the Men's GB eight. See the final of this race including a photo finish with the Polish eight to take the Bronze medal on World Rowing (Germany Gold 5:33, Russia Silver 5:34, GB Bronze 5:35).

Scott Durant (Arrow) with Bronze Medal in the Men's Eight at the European Championships, Belgrade 2014

GB Eight 2014 Crew selected for the World Cup Series.

1. Scott Durant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lancaster/12.02.1988)
2. Alan Sinclair (Leander Club/Inverness/16.10.1985)
3. Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell (Univ of London BC/Durham/13.04.1988)
4. Matt Langridge (Leander Club/Northwich/20.05.1983)
5. Pete Reed (Leander Club/Nailsworth, Glos/27.07.1981)
6. James Foad (Molesey BC/Southampton/20.03.1987)
7. Matthew Tarrant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Shepperton/11.07.1990)
8. Will Satch (Leander Club/Henley-on-Thames/09.06.1989)
9. Henry Fieldman (cox) (Imperial College BC/Barnes, London/25.11.1988)

Coaches: Christian Felkel & Rob Dauncey

The GB race calendar for the rest of the season is as follows:

• June 20-22 World Cup II, Aiguebelette, France
• July 2-6 Henley Royal Regatta
• July 12-13 World Cup III, Lucerne, Switzerland
• Announcement of GB Rowing Team crews for the World Championships - venue TBC
• July 23-27 World U23 Championships, Varese, Italy
• August 16-28 World Youth Olympic Games, Nanjing, China
• August 24 – 31 World Championships, Amsterdam

Both Scott and his brother, Mason, raced for the GB Men's Eight in Seattle (May) against the Washington 'Huskies'. They became only the third crew ever to beat the University of Washington 'Huskies' at this event and win the Windermere Cup (GB website report and American news video link of closing stages of the race).

GB 'Windermere Cup' Eight

1. Phil Congdon (Molesey BC/Bury St Edmunds/06.06.1989)
2. Oliver Cook (Univ of London BC/Windsor/05.06.1990)
3. Mason Durant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lancaster/12.02.1988)
4. Scott Durant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Lancaster/12.02.1988)
5. Matt Gotrel (Leander Club/Chipping Campden/01.03.1989)
6. Adam Neill (Leander Club/Peterborough/29.5.90)
7. Nathaniel Reilly-O’Donnell (Univ of London BC/Durham/13.04.1988)
8. Daniel Ritchie (Leander Club/Herne Bay/06.01.1987)
9. Alan Sinclair (Leander Club/Munlochy/16.10.1985)
10. Matthew Tarrant (Oxford Brookes Univ BC/Shepperton/11.07.1990)
11. Henry Fieldman (cox) (Imperial College BC/Barnes/25.11.1988)

GB win the Windermere Cup