The Australian rowing team have been working hard at the Australian Sports Commission’s European Training Centre in Varese, Italy since Monday. The squad is almost half way through their eight-day training camp, in preparation for the 2009 World Rowing Championships.

The championships will run on the Lake Malta regatta course in Poznań, Poland, from 23 to 30 August.

Australia’s rowing team features 11 athletes who competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

2009 Australian rowing team

Men’s coxless four:

• Francis Hegerty (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Cameron McKenzie-McHarg (Victorian Institute of Sport)
• James Marburg (Victorian Institute of Sport)
• Mathew Ryan (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Coach: Tim Conrad (Queensland Academy of Sport)

Men’s quad scull:

• Dan Noonan (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Nicholas Hudson (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Jared Bidwell (Australian Institute of Sport/Queensland Academy of Sport)
• David Crawshay (Victorian Institute of Sport)
• Coach: John Driessen (Huon Rowing Club)

Men’s eight:

• Joshua Dunkley-Smith (Mercantile Rowing Club)
• Fergus Pragnell (Australian Institute of Sport/New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Richard Allsop (Australian Institute of Sport/New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Bryn Coudraye (Australian Institute of Sport/South Australian Sports Institute)
• Thomas Swann (Australian Institute of Sport/Victorian Institute of Sport)
• Mitchell Estens (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Sam Loch (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Tom Larkins (Australian Institute of Sport/Victorian Institute of Sport)
• Coxswain: Tobias Lister (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Coach: Noel Donaldson (Australian Institute of Sport)

Men’s lightweight coxless four:

• Angus Tyers (Victorian Institute of Sport)
• Ross Brown (Western Australian Institute of Sport)
• Darryn Purcell (Queensland Academy of Sport)
• Chris Bigg (Queensland Academy of Sport)
• Coach: Chris O’Brien (Victorian Institute of Sport)

Women’s coxless four:

• Emily Rose (Australian Institute of Sport/Western Australian Institute of Sport)
• Elizabeth Alderman (Australian Institute of Sport/Western Australian Institute of Sport)
• Laura Osti (Australian Institute of Sport/South Australian Sports Institute)
• Sophia Robson (Australian Institute of Sport/Victorian Institute of Sport)
• Coach: Laryssa Biesenthal (Australian Institute of Sport)

Women’s lightweight double scull:

• Bronwen Watson (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Alice McNamara (Victorian Institute of Sport)
• Coach: Ellen Randell (University of Technology Sydney Rowing Club)

Women’s coxless pair:

• Sarah Cook (New South Wales Institute of Sport)
• Kim Crow (Victorian Institute of Sport)
• Coach: Laryssa Biesenthal (Australian Institute of Sport)

Women’s double scull:

• Pippa Savage (Queensland Academy of Sport)
• Sally Kehoe (Queensland Academy of Sport)
• Coach: Phil Bourguignon (The University of Sydney)