Cardiff ace Weighell is back to form in trials; ROWING.CARDIFF'S GB rowing hopefuls made an impressive start to the season at the first round of the weekend's British trials in Boston. GB and Cardiff rower, Ian Weighell, launched a notable comeback in the senior heavyweight heavyweight - High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane single with an 11th-place finish, storming home just 22 seconds behind his former GB team-mate and 2002 Olympic champion Greg Searle Greg Searle (born 20 March 1972) is a British Olympic rower educated at Hampton School and London South Bank University. Greg Searle is an Olympic gold medalist, winning the coxed pairs event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with his brother Jonny Searle. , who won the event. Welsh cap and Commonwealth lightweight, Andy Davies Andy Davies (born 10th August 1965) is a radio producer, most notably of the popular BBC Radio 2 show presented by Jonathan Ross, of which Andy is now the co-presenter. Andy describes his role on the show as "Producer, Sidekick, Devils Advocate and Giggler". , from Mold, bounced back from a career-threatening back injury to set a season best and earn his place among the UK's top elite with a 14th-place finish in the senior lightweight single scull A single scull is a rowing boat which is designed for a single person who propels the boat with two oars, one in each hand. The term 'single scull' usually refers to the sport of competitive rowing: a skiff . The Cardiff City RC rower rated 34 strokes per minute through a wind-swept start to gain headway head·way n. 1. Forward movement or the rate of forward movement, especially of a ship. 2. Progress toward a goal. 3. The clear vertical space beneath a ceiling or archway; clearance. 4. over his contenders, completing the 5000 metre race in 19 minutes and 31 seconds to clinch Clinch, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed by the junction of two forks in SW Va., and flowing generally SW across E Tenn. to the Tennessee River at Kingston. a decisive 0.2 second margin over his nearest London RC club challenger, Harry Bond. Davies said: "It's a great starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point terminus a quo commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the after such a tough year - at one point I didn't know if I would ever get in a boat again. I'm looking forward to the next round of trials in December where I'll be more able to judge where I sit on a UK level. Some of the UK's top World Championship athletes will be contending, so I'll be pushing for another top-20 finish." Meanwhile, Cardiff University's Imogen Evans took Saturday's 2000 metre indoor rowing test by storm, clocking seven minutes and one second - a personal best for the River Taff Not to be confused with River Tâf. The River Taff is a large river in Wales. It is known as the Afon Tâf in Welsh. It rises as two rivers in the Brecon Beacons - the Taf Fechan (Little Taff) and the Taff Fawr (Big Taff rower which places her among the UK's top 10 under-23 heavyweight women. Evans missed out on the water trial due to illness, but is tipped to make a strong comeback at the next round of GB trials in December. Impressive 19-year-old Jasper Warner also turned heads with two great performances. The junior GB hopeful has only been training under the guidance of National Coach Ian Shore since September, and kicked off his first GB trials with an indoor personal best of six minutes and 35 seconds, capping it with a solid row in Sunday's water trial which placed him among the top 50 lightweight finishers. Other outstanding performances came from Cardiff City RC's Laurence Birdsey, who scooped the 14th fastest indoor rowing time of the weekend in six minutes and 26 seconds, just one and half seconds off his personal best, followed closely by team-mate Andy Davies in a time of six minutes, 28 seconds. Llandaff's Zak Lee-Green threatened to challenge the duo, eventually finishing in six minutes, 29 seconds, and racing home to a top-30 finish to boost his hopes of making this year's GB U-23 set-up. |
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