22 Sep 2010

Britain sending big team to rowing champs

8:49 pm on 22 September 2010

One of the biggest teams that will attend the world rowing championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand in October has been announced.

Britain will send 61 athletes and head to New Zealand as overall winners of the World Cup circuit.

At the final Rowing World Cup in Lucerne the team finished with 11 medals out of the 14 events, four of them gold.