Latest News / Rowing World Cup Series 2010 Slovenia : 30.04.10

Sophie Hosking will commence her 2010 rowing season in the World Cup series from 27th to 30th May on Lake Bled, Slovenia.

38 nations and a total of 656 athletes in 281 boats are entered in this first stage of the 2010 Rowing World Cup series.



Transmission times on the BBC are as follows:

Sunday 30/05/10
BBC Red Button and Online    9.00am - 1.00pm

Rowing: World Cup - Bled
Live coverage

Monday 31/05/10
BBC2 12.55pm - 2.00pm
Rowing: World Cup - Bled Highlights
Highlights from the World Cup at Lake Bled, Slovenia, the first of the summer's three regattas that bring together the world's best rowers. 


With the 2012 Olympics now only two years away, the World Cup is a key barometer ahead of the London Games. Great Britain won their third successive series last season, but they will face a real challenge from Germany, who topped the medal table at the 2009 world championships.

Sophie won a World bronze medal in the lightweight women's double at the 2009 World Championships in Poznan.  Coached by Paul Reedy, Sophie, and crewmate Hester Goodsell, were the first GB boat in this discipline to medal since 2007.  A strengthened Greek boat led out and proved too strong for GB, and in the race for the line just two-hundredths of a second separated Poland and GB, with Poland taking silver and GB a creditable bronze.

Sophie had established herself as the leading lightweight woman in 2009, winning the GB Rowing Senior Trials in the single and with Hester, winning GB's first ever lightweight women's World Cup gold in the double in Munich.  In Lucerne they won gold again establishing themselves as a strong partnership for the World Championships. 

Sophie started rowing at the age of 14 at Kingston Grammar School after gaining a sport scholarship.  She progressed through the school winning her first international vest in the J16 GB - France match winning the eight.  The following year Sophie raced in the four at the 2003 World Junior Championships winning a silver medal.  In 2004 she raced in the same event in Banyoles and came 6th. 


In 2006 Sophie won silver in the lightweight single at the World U23 Championships and bronze in the senior quad at the World Championships in Eton 1 month later.   She won silver in the lightweight quad at the 2007 World Championships.

Sophie joined Durham University in the autumn of 2004 and graduated in Chemistry and Physics in the summer of 2007 before joining Cognition’s Technical Department as a Chemist.