Thornley received silver within the girls’s singles scull on the 2017 World ChampionshipsDates: 23 July-8 August Time in Tokyo: BST +8Protection: Watch reside on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer, BBC Purple Button and on-line; Pay attention on BBC Radio 5 Reside, Sports activities Further and Sounds; reside textual content and video clips on BBC Sport web site and app.
Nice Britain’s 2020 Olympic rowing frustration continued as Vicky Thornley was edged out of a medal regardless of a late push within the girls’s single scull.
The 33-year-old Welsh rower completed 0.67 seconds behind Austria’s Magdalena Lobnig within the race for bronze.
Thornley, who received silver with Katherine Grainger in Rio 2016’s double sculls, was bidding to turn out to be the primary British lady to say a medal within the occasion.
Britain have now completed fourth in six occasions on the Sea Forest Waterway.
New Zealand’s Emma Twigg cruised to gold within the single scull, with Hannah Prakatsen, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, taking silver.
“She left herself an excessive amount of to do, however I believe that was Vicky Thornley’s finest race in the entire regatta,” mentioned two-time Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell.
Grainger, in her position as an analyst for BBC tv, mentioned she was “so, so proud” of her former rowing accomplice.
“Lots of people would not have anticipated her to get to the ultimate, essentially,” mentioned the five-time medallist.
“Though it’s a fourth – once more – that’s historical past made. It’s the highest any feminine scull has come on the Olympic Video games.”
Extra to observe.
