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LEANDER Club had 18 athletes competing in the Great Britain senior and U23 trials at Caversham lake last Saturday. For many athletes, this was their first oppor.
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LEANDER athletes had success at last weekend’s two-day GB closed trials held at Dorney Lake.
The Henley-based club had 26 senior and U23 club based athletes from its development squad invited to trial across all four categories in this invitational only event.
The format was slightly different to normal, skipping the traditional semi-final races with crews being placed directly into the finals from time trial results.
First up was the men’s pairs where Leander had two crews racing. Ryan Todhunter and James Vogel placed third in the time trial and achieved fourth place in the A final while Iwan Hadfied and Dan Graham came eighth in the time trial and then won the B final to place as the second fastest U23 pair.