Guiseley’s Debbie Flood has been named in the Great Britain team for the World Rowing Championships.
They will be held in Bled, Slovenia, from August 28 to September 4 and double as a qualifier for the 2012 Olympics.
The experienced 31-year-old Flood is one of five scullers selected to fill the women’s quadruple scull and single scull at the World Championships.
The double Olympic silver medallist, who rows for the Leander Club, won the world title last year with double 2008 silver medallist Annabel Vernon, Beth Rodford and four-times world quadruple sculls champion Fran Houghton.
The latter missed the recent Lucerne Regatta due to injury and was replaced by Melanie Wilson, who is the fifth name on the list while Houghton proves her fitness.
Other Yorkshire rowers selected for Slovenia are Andy Hodge, in the men’s pair with Pete Reed, and Bradford’s Matt Wells.
It is another chance for Reed and Hodge, who is from Hebden, near Skipton, to have a crack at the New Zealanders, who pipped them to the title last year by three-tenths of a second.
Wells is in the double sculls with his regular partner Marcus Bateman.
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