A pair of Burnaby Lake rowers will be taking their oars to Florida as members of the Canadian rowing team to compete next month at the World Rowing championships.
Ellen Gleadow and Taylor Hardy were among 27 athletes chosen to man the boats for Canada at the competition, which starts Sept. 24.
Gleadow, 23, will make the shift from the double sculls to the quads, after competing in a number of international races for Canada.
She joins forces with lightweight women’s quadruple sculls teammates Jennifer Casson, Trish Mara and Jill Moffatt.
Gleadow and Casson formed the double sculls team that finished seventh, winning the B final at the World Rowing Cup III event in Switzerland last month. It was the pair’s first World Cup regatta.
Hardy, who turned 28 this week, will compete in the lightweight men’s double sculls with Victoria’s Patrick Keane.
Last month, Hardy and Maxwell Lattimer made the trip to Lucerne to compete at the World Rowing Cup III race, but had to withdraw due to an illness.
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