JULY 2016 NEWS Above – 2016 Australian Women’S Olympic Quad Scull at Lucerne – Jen Cleary Second from Left
JULY 2016 NEWS Above – 2016 Australian Women’s Olympic Quad Scull at Lucerne – Jen Cleary second from left Mercantile at the Olympic Games Published 29th July 2016 Mercantile and Victoria have always been great contributors to Australian rowing teams. This year is no exception. David “Chipper” Colvin provides the following figures. Of a team of 29 athletes, Mercantile are providing 6 members (Cleary, Dunkley Smith, Banting, Sutherland, Albert and Morrison) and MUBC 5 (Brennan, Fosterling, Lockwood, Booth and Stephan). More than one third of the team come from the Yarra bank – 11 out of 29. Club representation in the Olympic team is as follows: Mercantile – 6 members MUBC – 5 members Sydney RC – 3 members SUBC – 3 members Well done Mercs and thank you Chipper for the analysis. Australian Women’s Eight to go to the Olympic Games Published 29th July 2016 Great news. Australia has qualified an eight for the Olympic Games and that eight contains four Mercantile members, cox Sarah Banting, Fiona Albert, Charlotte Sutherland and Jess Morrison. Above: Women’s Eight: Sarah Banting, Georgina Gotch, Megan Volker, Charlotte Sutherland, Alex Hagan, Jessica Morrison, Fiona Albert, Molly Goodman and Lucy Stephan ~ Picture: Tim Carrafa, Herald Sun It has all occurred so suddenly. Whilst the Russian drug scandal unfolded, it became apparent that the Russian rowers may be subject to sanctions. The crew began to get together on Friday 23rd July and started rowing on Saturday 24th. (See article below published on 22nd July). By Tuesday night, confirmation came through that FISA had removed a large number of Russian athletes under the new IOC entry guidelines.
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