A group of Northwich RC’s top
junior scullers represented the club at the British Rowing Championships 2012,
at the National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham
over the weekend resulting in 2 medals; a Silver and a Bronze from 3 entries.
Success for two; Ed Grisedale,
returning with a Silver medal in Open Junior Single scull and Harry Blake a
Bronze medal, having jumped into a composite boat with Grange School RC in the Open
Junior 15 coxed quad sculls.
Disappointment for one; Fynn
Lawton in the Open Junior 16 single scull.
Friday was a very wet
miserable day for the competitors. Ed Grisedale raced in the time trial
finishing in the top 12.
This set him up for the Semi
Final on Sunday morning which he won completing the 2000 m course in 7:58,
seven seconds ahead of Evesham RC. With the weather improving and a few hours
recovery time he was back on the water for the Final (A). Ed has been training
long and hard and he was hungry for a Gold medal however he was beaten by
Tideway Sculler RC who had won at the National Schools Regatta in June. Ed was
disappointed but Jed Barlow, coach, explained it was a good race for most of
the course but the winner proved too strong and pulled out to a couple of
lengths clear water at the finish.
However, on the
strength of this performance, Ed has been invited to represent England in the Home Countries match at Cardiff Henley partner, Joe Guppy, and they will both be in the
quad with others yet to be announced.
Harry Blake was delighted to
win a Bronze medal in Junior 15 coxed quad sculls when he was invited to join
the Grange School
Fynn Lawton entered the Open
Junior 16 single scull. Despite missing the “start” instruction in his heat he
powered his way to finish first in 7:44 ending up with the fastest overall time
in his heats. Unfortunately, a recurring injury took hold of him during his
semi final heat. Having raced well for 400m, severe cramp forced him to stop.
He was bitterly disappointed but we are all very proud of his achievement, racing
at National level, having only started in the sport a year ago! What will 2013
bring?!
