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Picture: JANE REID Angus Reid, left, and Steve Fisher in training on Lake Burley Griffin on Thursday night for the NSW Rowing Association's championship regatta at Penrith this weekend. Follow the Swamp in colour on Sundays. Help
Picture: JANE REID
Angus Reid, left, and Steve Fisher in training on Lake Burley Griffin on Thursday night for the NSW Rowing Association's
championship regatta at Penrith this weekend.
ROWER IN WITH A CHANCE FOR LA
Steve Fisher, who has a good
chance of making Australia's
Olympic rowing squad, will pair
with Angus Reid in the NSW
Rowing Association's cham-
pionship regatta this weekend as a
lead-up to the nationals and Los
Angeles selection trials.
Fisher and Reid, who will con-
test the open men's pairs at
Penrith, are members of Can-
berra's Eastern Suburbs Rowing
Club and the ACT rowing squad.
Fisher having come to Canberra
from Perth last year to train in a
bid for Olympic selection.
At recent regattas they have
performed well against various
State crews and rate highly against
NSW crews.
The King's Cup, the national
regatta and Olympic selection
trials will be held at Lake Bar-
rington, Tasmania, from March 28
to April 1.
Fisher was a member of the
Australian senior B under-23 squad
which decisively beat New Zea-
land at four regattas in New Zea-
land last year.
At the Glebe regatta at Penrith
last week, Fisher and Reid were
joined by James Galloway and
Paul Thompson, of the Canberra
Rowing Club, for the open men's
four and reached the final. They
will contest this event again.
Other ACT squad members
competing at Penrith include An-
drew Randall and his sisters, Ellen
and Erica, Reuben Bettle and An-
drew Fairfield-Smith.
Andrew Randall and Bettle, the
leading ACT lightweight double
sculls crew, finished third in the
open double sculls last week, de-
feated only by heavyweight crews
and should achieve top seeding in
the lightweight double this week-
end.
Randall, who is ranked in the top
five single scullers in Australia,
should gain selection in the senior
B lightweight single sculls this
weekend.
Ellen and Erica Randal! are just
outside Olympic selection but are
among the top five women's pairs
in Australia and are hoping for
senior B selection for the nationals.
Fairfield-Smith, of Canberra
Grammar Rowing Club, is making
a bid for selection for the junior
world championships in Sweden in
August.
He completed his schooling last
year and is ranked as one of the top
two junior scullers in Australia. He
is concentrating on the junior un-
der-19 grade and if he achieves the
specified qualifying time as well as
winning this event he would earn
his place in the team to the world
titles.
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