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Thursday, May 11, 2017
Matt strokes to a
World gold
Newbury Weekly News
Sport
DONNINGTON rower
Matthew Rossiter made a
spectacular senior GB
debut when teaming with
Jacob Dawson to win the
men’s pairs at the opening
World Cup event of the
season in Belgrade at the
weekend.
It was Rossiter’s first world
cup regatta and as stroke to
Dawson’s bow, the pair won a
series of races to claim victory
for the GB team .
Rossiter won a number of
international races at junior and
under 23 level, but seven years
ago it looked as if his rowing
career might be over when he
sustained a serious back injury.
It kept him out of the sport for
nearly three years, but the Lean-
der athlete has battled back to
the top level and signs that he
was back were shown last month
when he and Dawson finished
second behind Olympic gold
medallists Mo Sbihi and Will
Satch at the final GB trials,
booking their first-ever place at
senior GB level.
They eased through their heat
in Belgrade by four seconds,
surging ahead of Netherlands
duo Mechiel Versluis and
Mitchel Steenman after 1250
metres and going on to win with
Spain’s pair a similar margin
adrift in third place.
Turn to page 63
THAMES VALLEY
ABC boxers Archie
Jury (right) and
Jack Tomlinson
(Below) will be
aiming to emerge
unscathed from
their club’s annual
show on Saturday to
fight the following
day in the
quarter finals of the
ABA’s Schoolboy
Championships.
The 14-year olds
are in action before
a packed house for
the 14-bout bill at
Newbury
Racecourse on Saturday evening, and then go
to Kidlington in Oxfordshire for their
respective bouts in the Class B ‘03 group.
Jury will take on
Noel Thomas from
Bristol’s Bartonhill
club at 34 kilos,
while Tomlinson’s
opponent at 38.5
kilos will be Curtis
Rennie from
Southampton’s
Poseidon club.
If successful, the
pair will fight in the
semi-finals the
following weekend,
with the finals
taking place the
weekend after that.
Gold-winning WorldCuppairMatthew Rossiter (right) andJacobDawson
(NOP)
IT’S back to ins and outs, and sadly for a number of local clubs on Saturday, the latter. Falkland, Thatcham, Newbury and Hungerford all tasted defeat on the
opening day of their league campaigns, but there was plenty of success elsewhere. LOCAL CRICKET - PAGES 57-60
No chance of ring rust
for Archie and Jack
Crusaders target
three to join
the adventure
SEE PAGE 60
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