Sculls in a sentence

The 29-year-old, who finished seventh in the women’s quadruple sculls in Tokyo three years ago, will compete in Paris as part of the double sculls alongside Becky Wilde, with son Freddie set to join her in Paris.

The Indian rowing contingent had a disastrous day at the Asian Games, having missed out on as many as four medals including in fancied events like men’s single sculls and double sculls.

Basic skills Sculls Sculls (hand movements used to propel the body) are the most essential part to synchronised swimming.

Ben Pritchard, who came fifth in Tokyo, beat the world-record holder, and an Italian with an illegal communications device, to claim gold in the PR1 men’s sculls.

Great Britain's Emily Craig and Imogen Grant win gold in the last women's lightweight double sculls to appear in the Olympics, after narrowly missing out on a medal in Tokyo.

Hodgkins-Byrne booked her place at Paris 2024 at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta with Becky Wilde in the women’s double sculls.

Meanwhile, Ayers and Altschwager dominated the mixed double sculls final (PR3) in seven minutes, 26.74 seconds, just under two seconds faster than the Brits.

Rowles retained her PR2 mixed double sculls title with then rowing partner Laurence Whiteley in Tokyo, and has sights set on another successful defence alongside former Royal Engineer Commando Stevenson.

Kathryn Ross of Australia broke away from the rest of the field early in the women's PR2 single sculls, before enjoying a commanding victory.

Lucy Browne, Harriet Holmes, Fleur Griffiths and Tomi Wilcock then took to the water in their single sculls.

Russia won the PR3 mixed double sculls final ahead of Austria and the US.

Commonly used sculls include support scull, stationary scull, propeller scull, alligator scull, torpedo scull, split scull, barrel scull, spinning scull and paddle scull.

However, Luigi dreams of sing beautifully as he sculls along the Grand Canal.

Rowing crew Boat positions main The boat positions within an 8+ rowing shell In all boats, with the exception of single sculls, each rower is numbered in sequential order, low numbers at the bow, up to the highest at the stern.

The combined blade area of a pair of sculls is however greater than that of a single sweep oar, so the oarsman when sculling is working against more water than when rowing sweep-oared.

The girl rowed, pulling a pair of sculls very easily; the man with the rudder-lines slack in his hands, and his hands loose in his waisteband, kept an eager look-out.