Bendigo Rower Keeping the Dream Alive

By Adam Bourke
Updated November 7 2012 - 6:33am, first published December 16 2011 - 11:10am

Bendigo rower Hannah Every-Hall is one step closer to a berth in next year’s London Olympics.Every-Hall dominated yesterday’s women’s single lightweight sculls at the Rowing Australia 2012 national selection trials in Sydney.Every-Hall won the singles from her double sculls partner Alice McNamara with a large gap to the rest of the field.While yesterday’s result doesn’t cement Every-Hall’s Olympic berth, it further enhanced her and McNamara’s status as the premier women lightweight scullers in Australia.Every-Hall and McNamara have teamed up at the past two world championships in the lightweight women’s double scull.Australia has already qualified a boat for the women’s lightweight double sculls in London, but who is selected to compete remains up in the air.Every-Hall, a two-time winner of the Bendigo Advertiser-WIN Television Sports Star of the Year award, which is backed by bankmecu, is chasing her first Olympic Games berth.Rowing Australia National High Performance Director Andrew Matheson said the performances of the triallists to date had been impressive.“There is a lot of pressure on each of the athletes at selection trials, but to date everyone has coped well and we have seen some good racing and some excellent results produced,” Matheson said.“As a whole, we are extremely happy with the progress of the program, but we expect the athletes to continue stepping up.“We are trying to view as many combinations as possible over the coming days and that will give us a good basis to move forward over the next three months ahead of the final trials in March.”The final trials for the 2012 Australian team will be held at the Sydney International Regatta Centre from March 23–April 1 next year.Australia’s crews will then be selected to compete at world cup regattas in Switzerland (May 23-25) and Germany (June 15-17) before the final crews are nominated to the Australian Olympic Committee on June 22.

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