Rowing: Three golds among Otago haul

Hamish Bond.
Hamish Bond.
Otago rowers added a bunch of medals to their tally on the penultimate day of the national rowing championships on Lake Ruataniwha yesterday.

World and Olympic champion Hamish Bond, of North End, picked up a couple of golds, including one with his brother, Alistair (Otago University Rowing Club), in the men's premier coxless four in the final race of the day.

The North End rower's first gold was with James Lassche for Southern RPC in the men's premier coxless pair oars.

Both races were tight, as Waikato RPC pushed Southern all the way to the line.

Lassche and John Storey were also part of the premier coxless four with the Bond brothers.

Fiona Bourke, of the Otago University Rowing Club, won gold in the women's premier double sculls with Lucy Spoors.

Racing for Southern RPC, the pair beat Waikato RPC's Sarah Gray and Georgia Perry by 1.30sec.

Fiona Bourke.
Fiona Bourke.
Otago University Rowing Club's Natasha Bonham-Carter and Hazel Cunliffe bagged silver in the women's club double sculls and club coxless pair oars.

The pair finished second behind Wanganui's Jessica Brougham and Jaime O'Keefe in the club double sculls by 2.56sec, while they were 8.18sec behind Canterbury's Stefanie Baker-Burns and Mollie Weston in the coxless pair.

Andrew Potter, of the Otago University club, added another bronze medal to the one he won on Thursday in the men's under-22 coxless pair with Cameron Crampton.

Representing Southern RPC's men's coxless four, Potter, Crampton, Hugo Elworthy and Tom Brand crossed the line in 6min 38.89 to claim bronze.

Auckland RPC dominated the race from the start to win in 6min 16.26sec.

Oamaru's Maysie Scott, Sydney Telfer, Julia Fauth and Micaela Irvine never found their rhythm in the women's club coxless quad sculls, finishing seventh in a disappointing 7min 36.62sec.

North End's Juliette Alm-Lequeux, Eliza Adams, Emma Wallace and Karley Wilden-Palms won the B final in 7min 30.80sec, quicker than five of the crews in the A final.

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