Hannah Scott selected in GB’s World Rowing Cup III crew
FIFTY athletes have been selected for the final World Rowing Cup of the season, including one senior debut.
Great Britain has announced 14 crews that will make the trip to Lucerne, Switzerland, for World Rowing Cup III.
After winning gold in their 2026 season opener, the Men’s Four all return.
Reigning World Champions Dan Graham, James Robson, Douwe de Graaf and George Bourne won in Seville by more than five seconds ahead of France, who took silver.
Lauren Henry will once again race the Women’s Single Sculls.
The 2024 Olympic Champion started the 2026 season in fine form, edging out a thrilling final to beat Olympic bronze medallist Viktorija Senkute of Lithuania in Seville by 0.14 seconds.
It’s been a busy season already for Benjamin Pritchard, BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2025.
The European, World, and Paralympic Champion is fresh off the back of breaking his own PR1 World Record over 2000m on the Concept 2 Rower.
After racing at the Paris Para Regatta and on home soil, Pritchard and Jake Woods will both travel to the Lake of the Gods, where the rest of the world will meet them for the first PR1 racing at a World Cup this year.
Making his senior team debut is Performance Development Academy graduate Josh Knight.
In 2024, Knight stormed to victory in the Open 2000m at the British Rowing Indoor Championships.
Knight trained out of South West Performance Development Academy and has spent this season rowing in the Second Varsity Eight at the University of California, Berkeley.
He’ll join up in the first of two Men’s Double Sculls with 2025 world silver medallist Matt Haywood.
One change will be made to the crew that won silver in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls in Seville.
Paris Olympic Champion Imogen Grant will stroke the crew, making her return from injury.
Olympic Champions Hannah Scott and Lola Anderson are also back, as is Finn Stratton, whose senior debut in Seville resulted in a sensational silver medal.
“The standard on display at the first two rounds of the World Rowing Cup series in Seville and Plovdiv has set the scene for some great racing at World Rowing Cup III,” said Interim Performance Director Tom Dyson.
“It is always special heading to Lucerne to race, and this year we will be joined for the first time by members of the GB Rowing Team Paralympic Programme.
They will race alongside some crews of Media release their compatriots who are unchanged from World Rowing Cup I, while others have undergone adjustments and will be eyeing a first test of their new combinations.
“Everyone is eager to get racing again, and we must all capitalise on the opportunity to learn in the Games qualification venue for 2027 and 2028.