The Concept2 supported British Universities Rowing team collected a tremendous 16 medals at the 3rd European Universities (EUSA) Rowing Championships held on the Olympic Rowing Course in Banyoles, Spain. Rowing is now the biggest and most competitive of the EUSA sports, with over 300 athletes from over 60 universities participating in what is effectively the "Champions League" for University Rowing. Athletes are chosen on the results of their national championships and race at EUSA for their University and their nation, many athletes having already had experience at World Cup, Under 23 and Senior Worlds.

The British team featured athletes from 13 universities, with large contingents from Newcastle, Durham and Birmingham. The Bristol Mens Four excelled in picking up a very hard-fought Gold medal against an all-international German crew, whilst the Birmingham Ladies Four were rewarded for their hard work in switching from a coxed to a coxless boat over the summer by taking a magnificent silver ahead of crews containing several athletes from the World and the Under 23 Championships.

Despite the late-removal of some key athletes by the national governing body the BUR GB team still collected four Gold, four Silver and eight Bronze medals to make it the most successful British rowing team of the year, beating an international-packed German team to the overall EUSA Salver by just seven points, a credit to all the athletes, coaches and the management team in managing to retain the overall EUSA trophy for a third year against federation-supported, highly experienced teams.

The 2008 EUSA Rowing Championships will be held in Zagreb, Croatia in late August, just ahead of the FISU World University Rowing Championships in Belgrade, so the pressure will be on to ensure that all our lead student athletes are able to help GB defend our position on top of the university rowing table.

Great Britain Rowing Team, EUSA Championships 2007

BUR Male Athlete of the Year	Henry Pelly	Newcastle University
BUR Female Athlete of the Year	Emma Steel	Durham University
BUR Outstanding Contribution	Angelo Savarino	Newcastle University

W1x	a Jenny Forrester (Imperial) 6th
	b Helen Ellison (Imperial) 8th
	c Lizzie Hodges (Kings College, London) 4th
M2-	Iain Mackenzie and Chris Thomas (Nottingham) 4th
W2-	GOLD Hannah Elsey and Emily Taylor (Durham)
M2x	BRONZE Will Laughton and Simon Hislop, (Imperial London)
W2x	a Steph McDowall and Lizzie Crichton (Aberdeen) 4th
W2x	b SILVER Alice Leake and Katie Hutton (Newcastle)
M4x	Andrew Corrigan, William Reid, Sam Howell, Dan Cupit (Newcastle) 6th
W4x	BRONZE Rachel Thompson, Natasha Newton, Helen Brewer, Amy Lockwood (UWE)
M4-	GOLD Peter Randolph, Mark Roberts, Edward Walton, Matt Steeds (Bristol)
W4-	a BRONZE Kirsty Myles, Isabella Lindholt, Vicky Bryant, Tamsin Adams (Oxford Brookes)
W4-	b SILVER Rachel Turner, Katherine Perry, Helen Wood, Nicola Bartlett (Birmingham)
M8	BRONZE Henry Pelly, George Laughton, Richard Francis, Joe Lieserach (Newcastle) Charles A d'O Chaffardon, Mason Durant, Fred Gill, Simon Forster, cox Steven Nile (Newcastle)
W8	BRONZE Janine Lumley, Jenny Reid, Rachael Jefferies, Anne Simpson, Sonia Bracegirdle, Elselijn Kingma, Lucy Wordley, Guen Bradbury, cox James Appleton (Cambridge)
LW1x	Nicola Spencer (Exeter) 5th
LM1x	SILVER Oliver Mahoney Imperial)
LW2x	Sarah Murphy, Lizzy Mann (London) 8th
LM2x	BRONZE Ian Couch, Tom McGing (Durham)
LM4x	a SILVER Johann Wiseman, Matt Browning, Tom Cannon, James Clarke (Loughborough)
LM4x	b BRONZE Sam Bilmore, James Owen, Ian Couch, Tom McGing (Durham)
LW4x	GOLD Eleanor Murphy, Emma Steel, Sophie Bradshaw, Amy Wolstencroft (Durham)
LM4-	a GOLD Carl Maw, Henry Chin, Simon Barr, Nicholas Fearnhead (Durham)
LM41	b BRONZE Nathan O'Reilly, Chris Mills, Charles Jarvis, Graham Glen (Birmingham)

Coaches: Angelo Savarino, James Roberts (both Newcastle), Stuart Redden, Larissa Matley (both Birmingham), Peter Lee, Clare Leake (both Durham) James Blackley (Imperial), Gordon Trevett (Bristol), Gary Cairns (Exeter), Chantelle Hanley (UWE), Mitchell Rosenlund (Loughborough), Suzanne Hutchins (i/c Oxford Brookes)

Management: Geoff Holloway (BUR, Technical Director) Alan Thompson and Ben Caswell (BUR, Logistics), Cath Corfield (BUR) and Carl Alvarez (BUR / Nottingham) (Medical / Physiotherapy), Tim Walton (BUR, EUSA Umpire) Sophie Blow (Bath University and BUR, GB Team Manager)

Full results can be found on http://www.udg.edu/Default.aspx?alias=www.udg.edu/eucr2007.