Student selected for rowing World Championships

The Great Britain Rowing Team has announced its squad for August's Rowing World Championships in Amsterdam and among the 66 named athletes are a current King's PhD student and one former student.

In the GB women's squad, Geography PhD student Zoë Lee is selected as part of a group of 10 athletes (9 rowers + cox) who make up the GB Women's Eight. 

Zoë's selection continues her involvement with the Women's Eight crew where she has featured throughout the international racing season. To date the crew have enjoyed success in 2014, picking up a silver medal at the European Rowing Championships in Belgrade back in May, before collecting 2 World Cup bronze medals and winning the prestigious Remenham Challenge Cup for women's eights event at Henley Royal Regatta in early July. In the up-coming weeks the final line-up of the crew will be finalised as 9 rowers compete for 8 seats and a place on the start line at next month's World Championships event.

Zoë is joined in the men's World Championship squad by alumnus Paul Bennett. Standing at 6 ft 10 inches, Paul graduated from King's in 2012 having rowed for the University of London Boat Club during his studies. Going on to complete an MSc in Computer Science at Oxford University where he rowed for Oxford in the 2013 Boat Race, Paul now wins a seat in the GB Men's Eight crew alongside a number of medalists from the London 2012 Olympic Games. This selection is confirmed only weeks after Paul was one of several athletes brought into the Men's Eight boat. Since then the crew have raced at Henley Royal Regatta defeating their French national counterparts to win the Grand Challenge Cup before going on to claim a bronze medal at the third Rowing World Cup a week later.

Both Zoë and Paul will now be in action in Amsterdam from the 24th to the 31st August. Congratulations to both athletes on their selection!