Dame Katherine Grainger praises Rowan McKellar for leading British rowing resurgence

Rowan McKellar has been hailed by Dame Katherine Grainger for leading the way in British Rowing's rampant resurgence. Glasgow star McKellar, Heidi Long, Samantha Redgrave and Rebecca Shorten powered to gold at the World Championships by more than two seconds last year, bringing an end to their successful unbeaten season. Ad And with Britain coming top of the medal table with a total of 12 pieces of silverware in Racice, five-time Olympic medallist and London 2012 champion Grainger believes British Rowing are back to winning ways for good.

RowingBritish medal hopes ahead of target with 500 days to go to Paris 2024 — GraingerAN HOUR AGO The UK Sport chair, 47, said: «The British Rowing team, for a long period of time was very successful and consistently successful. »And Tokyo was the first time we almost saw a slight dip in performance and it was such a surprise that so many people because we believed that they would always win. «It was a real reminder of how hard this is.

It's not easy to win Olympic medals and it's not easy to time after time to deliver. »But what's exciting is that since those Games, there has been this incredible wave of newer, younger talent ready and prepared. «We have had a very successful world championships and it's lovely to see the women's team leading the way.

»In fact that women's coxless four, it's a very new Olympic event, it used to be the Olympics, it was dropped after 1992 and it's come back in much more recently. It's still a young, fresh event. «So there's always the wonder of which country is going to step out and take ownership of it.