Coleraine trio selected for World Championships

The eight-day regatta takes place from 25 August to 1 September.

Campbell, the Olympic bronze medallist from London last year, is the selected men’s open weight single sculler having picked up a silver medal at the world cup event at Eton Dorney in June.

He also finished sixth at the final world cup regatta of 2013 in Lucerne last month.

The Chambers brothers, meanwhile, will race the lightweight men’s double scull once more having made the podium of each of this season’s world cup meetings – the highlight being the gold picked up in Sydney at the start of the year.

Elsewhere, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Peter Reed and Alex Gregory, the three returning 2012 gold medallists from the men’s four, will race in the men’s eight.

Predictably after their hat-trick of 2013 World Cup gold medals Olympic Champion Helen Glover and Polly Swann are named in the women’s pair slot.

Agecroft RC’s Graeme Thomas, who turned from rugby to rowing and joined the GB Rowing Team Start programme just a few short years ago, is fit once more and rejoins the men’s quadruple scull with Charles Cousins, Sam Townsend and Peter Lambert.

The quartet, minus Thomas but with sculling reserve Jonathan Walton on board, came close to a medal in Lucerne as did Frances Houghton and Vicky Meyer-Laker who are named today in the women’s double scull after winning medals in two of the 2013 world cups.

There are no changes in the men’s double and four, women’s single, lightweight men’s single and four, nor in the lightweight women’s single or double.

Mark Aldred and Sam Scrimegour, gold winners in Eton Dorney and Lucerne have been named in the lightweight men’s pair ahead of the GB U23 world champion duo.

GB will field the same women’s eight that came fourth in the record-breaking final in Lucerne, during which the USA set a new world-best time. Beth Rodford, Louisa Reeve, Jess Eddie and Katie Greves are the experienced Olympians in the line-up.

Since a somewhat disappointing final world cup in Lucerne – at which the team won two golds and a bronze – all of the senior squad have been away at their traditional, annual altitude camps before returning to finish off their preparations this week at the GB Rowing Team lottery-funded national training centre near Reading.

“Lucerne was useful in that it gave us a baseline from which to move forward”, said GB Rowing Team Performance Director, Sir David Tanner. “This year has all been about giving new, young rowers their chance at the top alongside our more experienced names. So we should not expect big fireworks in Korea but this team still has the talent to sparkle”.

GB has also named its para-rowing squad for Chungju today. Tom Aggar has been named in the arms-shoulders men’s single scull and the leg-trunks-arms mixed coxed four will be Pamela Relph, Naomi Riches, James Fox, Oliver Hester and cox Oliver James.

Both GB crews won world cup gold at Eton Dorney in June but know that the field will strengthen for the World Championships. Relph, Riches and Aggar are the only returning 2012 Paralympians.

Relph’s selection today means a second set of siblings in the squad for Korea. Her sister Monica races in the women’s quad in Chungju – a first time selection for both at a senior World Championships.

The team leaves for Korea next week.