Five medals for Massey rowers at world champs

Massey student-athletes won five of the nine medals the New Zealand team brought home from the recent World Rowing Championships at Lake Bled in Slovenia.

Leading the way were the men’s pair of Hamish Bond and Eric Murray, and Rebecca Scown – one half of the women’s pair – who won gold.

Students Storm Uru and Peter Taylor won a silver medal in the lightweight men’s double sculls. Bronze medals were won by Anna Raymer in the women’s double sculls, and Fiona Bourke and Sarah Gray in the women’s quadruple sculls.

In all, Massey has 14 athletes who have now qualified for the London Olympics next year within the 12 New Zealand teams. Others to qualify at the regatta were Louise Ayling and Lucy Strack (women’s lightweight double sculls), Ben Hammond and Chris Harris (men’s four), John Storey (men’s quadruple sculls) and Ian Seymour, Sean O’Neill, David Eade and Ivan Pavlich (men’s eight).

They join world sprint kayak champion Lisa Carrington, another Massey student who qualified for the Olympics earlier in the year.