Three Wallingford members are among the 11 local rowers to have been named in the British Olympic team.

Wheatley's Frances Houghton - in the women's quad - plus Richard Chambers, of Oxford Brookes, and Paul Mattick, of Wallingford, - in the men's lightweight four, are all reigning world champions.

The duo are joined in this crew by Alice Freeman, of Wallingford, and Katie Greves who learnt her rowing at Headington School.

Two Oxford University perennials, Colin Smith and Acer Nethercott, are stroke and cox in the men's eight.

Smith is due to take over as Dark Blues president after Beijing.

Former world bronze medallist Helen Casey, from Wallingford, completes the local involvement, filling her now habitual slot in the women's lightweight double.

Seventeen local crews are involved in the Henley Royal Regatta which started on Wednesday and culminates in the finals on Sunday.

It could have been more, but some hopefuls fell by the wayside in the qualifiers.

Six went over this hurdle including City of Oxford in the Thames Cup Eights and the women's eights from Osiris and Wallingford in the Remenham Cup.

Only three of these crews received selected status from the Stewards, the trio being two Oxford Brookes crews - in the visitors coxless fours and one in the Prince Albert coxed fours - and Abingdon School's team in the Princess Elizabeth Eights.

Radley and Abingdon School continued their run of trophies at the Reading Town Regatta.

Radley won the senior 4 and junior 15 eights as well as the junior 16 and junior 14 fours.

Abingdon, with three crews entered, monopolised the junior 14 octuples.