Seven Oxfordshire ro-wers have been named in the British team for next week’s World Cup Regatta in Munich, a first step perhaps to an Olympic vest in London 2012.

Three World Cup regattas at Munich, Hamburg and Luc-erne will be followed by the World Championship finals in September in Slovenia, an event which doubles as the Olympic qualifier.

In the GB women’s eight, Lindsey Maguire, from Wall-ingford, and cox Caroline O’Connor, from Oxford Bro-okes, remain from last summer while Oxford’s Katie Solesbury is back in the crew.

Richard Chambers, formerly Oxford Brookes, and Paul Mattick ,of Wallingford, remain in the lightweight four, the boat in which they were 2010 world champions.

Another reigning world champion, Frances Houghton, from Wheatley, is elected in the women’s quad scull as she aims for a fourth Olympic Lily van den Broecke, a member at Headington, will cox the adaptive mixed four.

l Radley College won six events at Bedford Regatta on Saturday. They took two golds in the eights and four more in coxed fours.

Abingdon School landed four events in eights, one of these being the elite class.

The St Edward’s Schools girls squad won two events, while Magdalen College, St John’s College and City of Oxford gained one victory apiece.