Superb feat for ace Pete (From Streatham Guardian)

Superb feat for ace Pete

2:36pm Thursday 16th April 2009 in Sport

Chiswick resident Pete Reed was a winner at the GB Rowing Trials for the fifth year running in Belgium over the Bank Holiday weekend, writes Jane Hamilton.

With regular pairs partner Andrew Triggs-Hodge competing in the trials as a sculler for the first time, Reed had a new pairs partner in Alex Gregory, who only switched to rowing a few years ago having been a spare at the Olympics as a sculler.

Reed and Gregory will now have claim to whatever boat GB coach Jurgen Grobler elects as the lead.

In the past few years this has been the coxless four, in which Reed, Triggs-Hodge, Steve Williams and Tom James won gold at last year’s Beijing Olympics.

However, there is talk of Reed and Hodge forming a pair as the lead boat for the coming racing season, much as Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell did after their win at the Sydney Olympcis in 2000.

Triggs-Hodge, 30, finished fourth in the single scull final – eight seconds behind winner and fellow Olympian Alan Campbell.