Medals aplenty at champs for Otago crews

Taking part in the men’s premier coxless quad sculls  are Dunstan Arm Rowing Club men’s crew...
Taking part in the men’s premier coxless quad sculls are Dunstan Arm Rowing Club men’s crew members (rear from left) Henry Clatworthy, Angus Kenny, Jack Pearson, Matt O’Meara; and (front from left) Hamish Yeatman, Josh Bartlett, Jed McIntosh and Angus Loe. The rear crew won gold and the front bronze. PHOTO: SHARRON BENNETT
Dunstan rowers have returned home with a large medal haul from the South Island championships at Lake Ruataniwha at the weekend.
 
They made a clean sweep of the men's premier single sculls.
 
Angus Kenny was first in 7min 29.88sec, ahead of Jack Pearson (7min 33.58sec) and Henry Clatworthy (7min 35.58sec).
 
Kenny and Pearson joined forces to win the men's premier double sculls in 6min 39.64sec, and Clatworthy and Matt O'Meara, who also won the men's senior single sculls, were runners-up in 6min 41.68sec.
 
All four then won the men's premier coxless quad sculls in 6min 0.44sec.
 
Olivia Key won bronze in the women's premier single sculls, finishing in 8min 51.54sec.
 
She joined Olivia Piebenga, Millie Scott and Emma Spittle to win silver in the women's premier coxless quad sculls in 6min 50.06sec.
 
Scott, Spittle and Piebenga joined Ruby Smith, Sasha Robinson, Mila Graham, Messina Su'a, Madison Neale and Annabelle Scott to win the women's premier coxed eight in 6min 39.58sec.
 
Dunstan also picked up the women's club coxed eight title with Maggie Hepburn, Bella Breen, Olivia Ollerenshaw, India Nichols, Ellie King, Niamh O'Docherty, Lola Ritchie, Emer Bryant and Fred Phillips finishing in 7min 07.98sec.
 
Hepburn, Ollerenshaw, Breen and Nichols also won the women's club coxless quad in 7min 13.08sec.
 
Oamaru picked up another batch of titles.
 
Kouper Lynch, Ned Newlands-Carter, Lachlan Wright, Jett Rogers, Stuart Isbister, Patrick Spillane, Cody Marshall, Jacob Harrison and Greer Dickson won silver in the men's club coxed eight in 6min 25.02sec.
 
Wright, Rogers, Isbister, Harrison were also runners-up in the men's club coxless four in 6min 41.33sec.
 
Ike Newlands-Carter and Cash Paterson won the men's novice double sculls in 7min 30.65sec, and Tessa Wright, Emily Wainwright, Bridget Spittle, Indeg Jones-Hogan and Pippa McMillan won the women's intermediate coxed four in 7min 54.43sec.
 
North End rowers were also in great form with Isla Turner and Kenzie McLachlan grabbing the women's novice double sculls crown in 8min 39.54sec.
 
Georgia Graham (St Hilda's/North End) was second in the girls under-17 single sculls in 8min 35.38sec.
 
Otago Rowing Club's Brendan Eyls and Alexander Hattrell were second in the men's intermediate double sculls in 7min 05.17sec, and William Ligh and Paddy Kennedy (John McGlashan) won bronze in the boys under-17 double sculls with 7min 14.37sec.
 
Young Otago Boys' rowers Leo Garden and Ollie Scott won the boys under-16 double sculls in 7min 22.87sec.
 
Charlie Anderson, Sam Glover, Hunter Knox, Angus Collie, Myles Nichol, Will Chittock, George Murray and Connor Sinclair won the boys under-15 coxed octuple sculls.
 
Columba's Isla Nicholson and Ciara Paterson won bronze in 8min 1.74sec and Nicholson, Nova Whiston, Anika Leyser, Georgia Drummond, Kate Baskerville won silver in the girls under-17 coxed four in 7min 31.40sec.