A TEENAGE rower from York has won a silver medal for Great Britain at a major European championship.

Lucy Edmunds, 16, was a member of the Great Britain girls’ quad which won silver at the Coupe de la Jeunesse in Poznan, Poland, last weekend.

Edmunds, who rows for York City Rowing Club where she is affectionately known by everyone as 'Lu', was selected for the GB Junior Rowing Team last month and was delighted to represent her country.

“I’m thrilled and proud to have worn the red, white and blue of GB and absolutely delighted we won a silver medal,” she said. “I want to thank everyone at York City Rowing Club for their fantastic support and I especially want to thank my coach Phil Jones, who has been with me every step of the way.”

Edmunds, who recently sat her GCSEs at Huntington School, emerged successful from the gruelling final selection trials at GB Rowing headquarters in Caversham near Reading and the National Water Sports Centre in Nottingham.

She has been rowing only three years and has already won many regional regattas across the north of England and won bronze in the Junior 15 Single Girls’ Sculls at the British Rowing Junior National Championships in Glasgow last year.

She also won the Whitmore Trophy as York City Rowing Club’s Junior of the Year for 2015 and was nominated in the Young Female Sportsperson of the Year category at this year’s Active York Sports Awards.

The girls’ quad silver medal capped off a fantastic weekend for Team GB at the Coupe de la Jeunesse, where GB competed against 11 other nations at the championships on Lake Malta, the venue for the senior Rowing World Cup in June.

The GB Junior Rowing Team swept the medals board at the two-day regatta, winning 15 golds, seven silvers and two bronze medals, as well as the men’s and women’s team trophies and the Coupe Trophy overall.

Edmunds is now planning to have a well-earned rest before returning to competition at York City’s Autumn Sculls in September.