TWO Hereford Rowing Club members are having trials for England's Commonwealth Games team this weekend following success at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta.
Adam Gibbs and Tracey Matthews will be striving to impress the national selectors in the Nottingham-based trials.
Gibbs, aged 22, rowing for the prestigious Leander club, won a gold medal when he stroked the men's eights to a three-length victory over Nottingham County Rowing Association in the final at Henley.
The Great Britain hopeful is a sports science student at the University of Gloucester-shire in Cheltenham and has been rowing for Henley-based Leander for the past 18 months.
He will be joined in Nottingham by Tracey Matthews, who, rowing for Tideway Scullers in the women's eight, became the first Hereford woman to reach a Henley Royal final.
Matthews' crew had a brilliant win in the first round, beating the selected England Commonwealth eight, and then defeated Upper Thames before losing in the final to Oxford Brookes.
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