YORK City Rowing Club star Tom Ransley is bound for the World Championships in Slovenia next month.

The 25-year-old University of York graduate was named in the Great Britain eights crew and will line-up at the event in Bled between August 28 and September 4.

Ransley was a member of GB’s silver medal-winning crew in New Zealand last year.

The World Championships signal the start of the London 2012 qualification process.