Ladner Olympian rower Maxwell Lattimer will be back in Canadian colours for next weekend’s FISA World Rowing Cup 1 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Lattimer, 24, will be teaming up with Patrick Keane for the men’s lightweight double sculls event. It’s one of seven Canadian crews that will be competing in the first World Cup event of the 2018 season.
“It’s wonderful to have such solid Canadian crews competing at the World Rowing Cup,” said Rowing Canada High Performance Director, Iain Brambell. “We are sending our top performers to ensure we have an international benchmark within our 2018 Speed Order - National Team Selection Trials to be held in London, Ontario."
The RCA will announce the FISA World Rowing Cup 3 crews to compete in Lucerne following the June Speed Orders and National Team Selection Trials held in London, June 22-24. The 2018 RCA World Rowing Championships Team will be named in August.
“As we prepare to select and send crews to the World Rowing Cup 3 (Lucerne) and the 2018 World Championships in Plovdiv, we will continue to make some exciting adjustments within the HP program to best position the team for podium performances in 2020,” added Brambell.
Lattimer rowed for Canada in lightweight fours at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, finishing 13th. He won gold in the same event a year earlier at the Pan Am Games in Toronto.
He spent his university career initially at Western before transferring to UBC where he competed alongside his younger brother Aaron, who has also represented Canada.
