Royal Artillery Captain Heather Stanning and rowing partner Helen Glover have continued their march towards Olympic qualification with a second World Cup Rowing series gold medal in the women’s coxless pair race at the weekend in Lucerne, Switzerland, to follow up their win in Belgrade earlier in the month.
The win was made all the more significant as the New Zealand team, their main rivals in the women’s elite rowing competition, could only manage third place. There is only one more World Cup race this year, on 15 June, by which time Heather and Helen will know whether they are in the GB rowing team for the London Olympics.
The pressure will be on, with many in the rowing world seeing the final race of the series, in Munich, Germany, as the dress rehearsal for the Olympics in July.