Australian Youth Olympic Festival

Sydney, Australia

14-17 January 2009

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18 January: Leander's Jono Clegg and Will Satch left Sydney with five medals between them after the British rowing team added four more wins to their tally on the second day of racing.

Both Clegg and Satch competed in the quad sculls, where they slipped to second place behind the winning Australians. But in the final event of the regatta they went one better as the British men's eight crossed the line ahead of the field to take the team's seventh gold of the competition.

The GB men's eight (nearest camera) hang on to win gold in a photofinish

Their performance helped the GB team to an overall medal total for the event of seven golds, two silvers and three bronze.

17 January: Leander's Jono Clegg won gold on the opening day of racing in Sydney when he and his lightweight doubles partner Jon Preston triumphed over the five Australian crews which made up the A final in Penrith.

Their medal was one of seven won by the British rowing team on the opening day (3 gold, one silver, three bronze) when heats for the bigger boats promised further podium positions before the regatta concludes.

Jono Clegg and Will Satch compete together in the eight and also the quad, in which they had a comfortable heat win ahead of three Australians and one Chinese crew.

But Satch found the going tough in his third event - the single sculls. After finishing a promising second in his heat behind the Australian David Watts he slipped to seventh place in the final, in which his British team mate Jon Walton finished fourth.

GB RESULTS in SYDNEY

(Leander athletes in bold)

14 January: Leander athletes Will Satch and Jono Clegg have been chosen to compete as part of Team GB at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.

Satch and Clegg are among twenty young British rowers who will take to the water this weekend as the rowing events begin at Penrith Lakes, the setting for the 2000 Olympic Games Regatta.

Competition rules at the AYOF mean that each rower must compete in three different boat classes, one of which is the eight. The requirement to race multiple times across two-days of competition, combined with the seasonal temperatures in Sydney, means the British rowers will face a tough challenge.

2009 marks the fifth AYOF, which is held in alternate years and is part of the legacy of the 2000 Olympic Games. This year approximately 1600 athletes from 25 nations will take part. The British Olympic Association have selected 120 athletes and 63 officials in total to make up the British team.

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