Australian rowers Sally Kehoe and Sydney’s Genevieve Horton face World Cup test ahead of Rio Games

AUSTRALIA’S Olympic medal-chasing women’s double scullers look to advance their Rio Games rowing campaign at this weekend’s World Cup regatta in Poland.

Rowers Sally Kehoe and Genevieve Horton get fitted out for their trip to Rio.

AUSTRALIA’S Olympic medal-chasing women’s double scullers will look to advance their Rio Games rowing campaign at this weekend’s World Cup regatta in Poland.

Queenslander Sally Kehoe and Sydney’s Genevieve Horton won silver medals last month in the last World Cup event in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Kehoe, a dual Olympic finalist and 2014 bronze medallist is the double, is chasing her first Olympic medal in one of Australia’s form crews.

The other medal doubles from that regatta, winners Lithuania and bronze medallists Greece, are also backing up in Poznan, in which some of the heats are rowed on Friday night (Australian time) ahead of Sunday finals.

The Australian men’s quad scull crew who won at Lucerne, James McRae, Cameron Girdlestone, Alexander Belonogoff and Karsten Forsterling, have opposition against from a Britain crew who finished second there.

The women’s quad scull crew including two Queenslanders Madeleine Edmunds and Jessica Hall, will look to improve on their fifth placing in Lucerne.

Australia’s world champion single sculler Kimberley Brennan will compete again in Poznan, one of the sport’s regular World Cup venues, with New Zealander Emma Twigg, the 2014 world champion, also entered.

“The Australian team has had a good couple of weeks training and will be looking to consolidate on some good first up races in Lucerne,” Brennan said.

Originally published as Australian rowers Sally Kehoe and Sydney’s Genevieve Horton face World Cup test ahead of Rio Games