Scott Durant, World Champs Silver Medallist in coxed pair, returns to LRGS.

Scott Durant (OL) won a silver medal in the coxed pairs event at the World Rowing Championships. The Championships, at De Bosbaan in Amsterdam at the end of August, mark the end of a fantastic season for Scott who has been racing in the World Cup Series for the GB senior men's team.

Those of you to follow this blog will know that Scott successfully represented GB last year in the senior Men's Four and in the Men's Eight this year. If you have been following Worldrowing.com and the BBC Sport's coverage of rowing, you will have seen Scott in action at international regattas across the world.

Alan Sinclair, Scott Durant and Henry Fieldman (cox)

Results

1 New Zealand   06:33.260

2 Great Britain 06:43.450

3 Germany       06:45.850

4 Argentina     06:47.470

5 South Africa  07:02.400

6 Netherlands   07:07.730

The British pair went out hard from the start to lay a marker down and stay with the favoured Olympic pair from New Zealand. A full race report can be found on the British Rowing Association web site and a video of the final can be viewed on the World Rowing website.

Scott started rowing at LRGS and as a J18 won the School's Championship Pairs Cup at the National Schools Regatta with his twin brother Mason. In the same year, Scott was selected to represent GB at junior level, racing and winning in a coxed four at the Coup de Jeunesse in a course record. Many of the juniors that Scott and Mason started with have now progressed to the senior ranks. Scott has also won trophies and set record times at Henley Royal Regatta with GB and Oxford Brookes University.

Scott returns to LRGS to meet boys and staff on Thursday 18th September. He will be down at Halton on Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning to encourage our boys on the water. More photos to follow here.

Scott, the double named after him and his brother with and our J15s

The octuple project: new blades from The Rowing Foundation and Friends of LRGS