PETERBOROUGH City Rowing Club's outstanding juniors excelled at the National Rowing Championships in Nottingham over the weekend.
Tom Chung and James Fox won gold medals, while Fox also won a bronze medal as part of a quad crew. Sam Tuck, Olly Salonna and Adam Neill also claimed bronze medals.
Chung was the winner of the J14 single sculls and Fox won the same event at J15 le
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Tuck and Salonna picked up their third-place finish in the J14 double sculls, while Neill joined Fox in the J18 quad sculls along with Bedford Star rowers Josh Butler and James Scott.
The quad were disappointed to finish third in their event as many expected them to take the gold medal after their heroics at the recent Henley Regatta.
They took silver in that event, losing only to a crew who regularly represent Great Britain, but crucially Sam Howell was missing from that team and replacement Scott found it hard to adjust to the rhythm of the others.
A victory would have propelled the crew into an England team competing in Cork this weekend.
Neill finished an excellent fourth in the J18 single sculls and younger sister Phillipa Neill was also fourth in the J15 single sculls.
Orton Longueville schoolgirl Natalie Bream, who rowed for Great Britain the previous weekend, was disappointed with her quad's fifth place finish in a J18 event.
Natalie was joined by rowers from Maidenhead, Henley and Cambridge. She said: "We should have done better than fifth place. We were leading in the final, but then it all went wrong and I don't really know why."
City rower Nicola Bobyk competed in the Under 23 single sculls, but failed to reach the final.
The Nottingham event was marred by bad weather with some heats abandoned or cancelled altogether because of high winds.
Elme Marais (J15 girls single sculls), Ed Rippon (j14 single sculls) and Tom Kisby (Junior single sculls) all failed to progress to their finals.
J denotes junior. The number denotes age group of competitors so J14 is the junior race for rowers aged 14 and under.