SCOTTISH rower Heather Stanning and English partner Helen Glover will defend their world coxless pairs title in September after being named in Great Britain’s team for the World Championships in France.
Stanning, from Lossiemouth, is one of eight Scots included. Katherine Grainger continues her comeback in the double sculls. Victoria Meyer-Laker, from Aberdeenshire, is in the women’s eight that took bronze at the World Cup finals.
European champion Imogen Walsh, from Inverness, will compete in the lightweight single sculls. Kirriemuir’s Sam Scrimgeour, a silver medallist at last year’s World Championships, will be in action again in the lightweight pairs.
Alan Sinclair, from Inverness, and Edinburgh’s Callum McBrierty are in the men’s sweep team. Glasgow’s Commonwealth champion Angus Groom is the travelling reserve sculling athlete.
There Glasgow Academy rowers are in the team for the World Junior Championships in Rio, Josh Armstrong and Gavin Horsburgh in the quadruple sculls and Alex Rankin in the women’s four. Gregor Duncan, from Aberdeen Schools, is stroke of the men’s eight.
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