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Rowers from 45 nations are set to contest the third and final stage of the 2015 World Rowing Cup series in Lucerne, Switzerland.
This represents the highest number of national federations participating at World Cup regattas this season and is a reflection of teams moving towards finalising their line-ups for this year’s World Rowing Championships.
The lightweight men’s double sculls has the most entries at 26 with the reigning World Champions South Africa racing for the first time this season. James Thompson and John Smith will face World Cup leaders Jeremie Azou and Stany Delayre of France. The South Africans hold the World Best Time while Azou and Delayre recently set a new World Cup Best Time.
A large field has entered in the women’s single sculls and leading the way will be Australia’s Kim Crow. Crow won last month at World Rowing Cup II and this time she will race against Olympic Champion Mirka Knapkova of the Czech Republic. On the men’s single sculls side, the battle of the best will continue between Olympic Champion Mahe Drysdale from New Zealand and World Champion Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic. Belarus’s Stanislau Shcharbachenia is also racing and after beating Synek at World Rowing Cup II, Shcharbachenia is a sculler to watch along with Croatia’s Damir Martin.
Racing for the first time internationally this season are the World and Olympic Champions of the men’s pair Eric Murray and Hamish Bond. The duo’s strongest competition is likely to come from World Cup II winners Roel Braas and Mitchel Steenman of the Netherlands and World Cup I winners Germain Chardin and Dorian Mortelette of France.
Current World Cup leaders Germany has sent one of the largest teams with 22 crews entered. This includes their World Champion women’s quadruple sculls and European Champions in the men’s double sculls Marcel Hacker and Stephan Krueger. Also entered with 22 crews is Italy. They anticipate medals in the lightweight men’s double and open men’s double sculls. Last year’s top nation New Zealand has entered 21 crews and Great Britain has entered 19.
World Rowing Cup III will be raced on Lucerne’s Rotsee regatta course from 10-12 July 2015 with 18 boat classes to be contested. Racing starts at 9:00 CET on Friday 10 July.
The official hashtag for the event is #WRCLucerne. World Rowing will provide updates and short commentary via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @WorldRowingOfficial. The official Twitter account of World Rowing is @WorldRowing.
There were three World Best Times set and they includ the lightweight women’s double sculls. This was set during the semifinal by Great Britain’s Katherine Copeland and Charlotte Taylor, in a time of 6:48.38.
The 2015 World Rowing Cup II in Varese, Italy wrapped up with 19 countries winning World Cup medals and Great Britain finishing on top of the medals table.
Great Britain won a total of ten medals; five of them gold. This included a win in the para-rowing LTA mixed four as well as setting a new World Best Time in their heat and then breaking it two days later in the final. Gold also went to Great Britain in the men’s eight when the British crew overtook European Champions, Germany to finish first. The winning streak by Heather Stanning and Helen Glover in the women’s pair remained unbroken and the British were back on top in the lightweight women’s double sculls.
A new World Best Time was also set in the lightweight women’s single sculls when New Zealand’s Zoe McBride broke a 21 year old record. McBride set the time during the semi-finals and a day later won the final. This was one of four gold medals for New Zealand that helped put them into second on the overall medals table. Olympic Champion Mahe Drysdale added to the New Zealand gold medal count by winning the men’s single sculls in an impressive race that saw 2014 bronze medallist Angel Fournier Rodriguez of Cuba come through to take silver with Stanislau Shcharbachenia of Belarus edging out World Champion Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic to win bronze.
Australia, which finished third on the medals table, collected three golds. This included a golden performance by women’s single sculler Kim Crow who completely dominated her competition. Crow won by open water with Genevra Stone of the United States taking silver and Austria’s Magdalena Lobnig getting the bronze.
A new World Cup Best Time was set by the French lightweight men’s double sculls of Jeremie Azou and Stany Delayre. This earned Azou and Delayre gold and also helped put their country into fourth place on the medals table.
This was the first international regatta this season for the United States team and they opened their 2015 campaign by finishing fifth on the medals table with seven medals, two of them gold. The US Olympic and World Champion women’s eight remained unbeaten with the win at Varese with Canada in second and Great Britain in third.
World and European Champions in the women’s quadruple sculls Germany continued to dominate this boat class when they held off Poland and the United States to retain the World Cup leaders bib.
The World Rowing Cup series now moves to Lucerne, Switzerland for World Rowing Cup III, the third and final of the 2015 season. This regatta takes place from 10-12 July 2015.
The World Rowing Cup series was launched in 1997 and consists of a series of three events. The overall World Rowing Cup winners are determined after the third event. This year, the three stages of the series include Bled, Slovenia (9-10 May), Varese, Italy (18-21 June) and Lucerne, Switzerland (10-12 July).
Results, race reports, photos and videos are available on http://www.worldrowing.com.
Entries are in with 42 national rowing teams and over 750 rowers racing at the second stage of the 2015 World Rowing Cup to be held in Varese, Italy.
The men’s single sculls has the largest number of entries including a full field of the best in the world of single sculling. Olympic Champion Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand will make his first international appearance for 2015 and will, for the first time, face the winner of the European Rowing Championships Damir Martin of Croatia. In winning the European Championships, Martin beat World Champion Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic and Synek is back looking to reclaim the top spot. Also in the mix is the great Cuban sculler Angel Rodriguez Fournier, winner of the first World Cup in Bled and the current World Cup leader.
The Italian team is using Varese for their 2015 international debut. With 30 boats entered, Italy has the largest team at the regatta. Their prominent crew is the men’s double sculls featuring world silver medallists Romano Battisti and Francesco Fossi. They will face 2014 World Champions Valent and Martin Sinkovic of Croatia and European Champions Marcel Hacker and Stephan Krueger of Germany. Lightweight single sculling World Champion Marcello Miani is also a top medal contender for Italy.
The women’s double sculls will feature the new combination from New Zealand of Zoe Stevenson and Eve MacFarlane who will meet European Champions Magdalena Fularczyk and Natalia Madaj of Poland along with European bronze medallists Katherine Grainger and new partner Victoria Thornley of Great Britain.
Nineteen countries are racing in the lightweight women’s double sculls with European Champions from Great Britain Katherine Copeland and Charlotte Taylor leading the way. They will face the World Champions from New Zealand Julia Edward and Sophie MacKenzie as well as last year’s silver medallists Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee of Canada.
Para-rowing races will take place in four boat classes with the para AS men’s single sculls attracting entries from 13 nations. This entry includes the current World Champion Erik Horrie of Australia. Horrie will face world silver and bronze medallists from last year Tom Aggar of Great Britain and Alexey Chuvashev of Russia.
Racing commences on the afternoon of 18 June 2015 with the para-rowing heats. It will then progress through repechages and semifinals with finals being held on 21 June starting at 11:00 CET. There will be a World Rowing television host production for the final races that can be viewed live on http://www.worldrowing.com throughout the world.
The 2015 rowing season has started with World Rowing Cup I in Bled, Slovenia.
Tight racing resulted in the World Cup regatta points trophy being shared equally between China and Germany. Germany won four gold medals. These came in the blue riband men’s eight race as well as the men’s double sculls and men’s and women’s quadruple sculls. The men’s double sculls saw former single sculling champion Marcel Hacker team up successfully with Stephan Krueger to create a potentially winning new 2015 combination.
Scoring the most number of medals overall was China. The Chinese came to Bled with a large team and they won gold in both the lightweight women’s double sculls and the lightweight men’s pair. China won silver and bronze in the women’s pair after getting five of their six entered crews through to the final. But it was the Dutch pair of Olivia van Rooijen and Elisabeth Hogerwerf who earned the gold. China also took silver and bronze in the lightweight men’s four.
Belarus won two gold medals, one by 42-year-old Ekaterina Karsten in the women’s single sculls. The six-time Olympian Karsten was a last minute entry in the single after her doubles partner had to withdraw due to injury. Belarus was also successful with gold in the men’s four.
As well as the women’s pair, the Netherlands won a second gold medal in the lightweight men’s double sculls. Brothers Tycho and Vincent Muda kept the lead in a close race to the line which saw the silver and bronze medals decided by less than a second.
Poland picked up six medals overall to finish third on the points table. Poland’s medals included gold in the women’s double sculls following an impressive performance by Magdalena Fularczyk and Natalia Madaj.
Overall 20 nations earned World Cup points.
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The World Rowing Cup series was launched in 1997 and consists of a series of three events. The overall World Rowing Cup winners are determined after the third event. This year, the three stages of the series are Bled, Slovenia (9-10 May), Varese, Italy (18-21 June) and Lucerne, Switzerland (10-12 July).
Results, race reports, photos and videos are available on http://www.worldrowing.com.
The 2014 World Rowing Cup series had its final day today in Lucerne, Switzerland. Twenty finals were raced with New Zealand finishing the World Rowing Cup series at the top of the medals table.
The World Rowing Cup series kicked off in Sydney (AUS) in March with Australia coming out on top. Following the second World Rowing Cup in Aiguebelette (FRA) last month, Australia remained as the leading country. Then a string of medals for New Zealand at the third World Rowing Cup in Lucerne (SUI) today, put them ahead of Australia.
New Zealand secured gold medals in the men’s pair with the Olympic and World Champion crew of Eric Murray and Hamish Bond continuing their unbeaten winning streak. Mahe Drysdale and Emma Twigg then made it a double header by winning the men’s and women’s single sculls respectively. A fourth gold was taken in the lightweight men’s four with the New Zealanders keeping ahead of World Champions Denmark.
With New Zealand earning 141 points for the series, Great Britain finished in second with 126 points and Australia was third with 125. Overall 36 countries earned World Cup points.
But the most successful nation at Lucerne was Great Britain. The British earned 64 points helped by gold medal success in the women’s pair. Olympic Champions, Heather Stanning and Helen Glover held off New Zealand to take gold. The formidable British men’s four then struck gold ahead of World Champions from the Netherlands with Canada taking third. Great Britain’s third gold medal came in the lightweight women’s double sculls. The crew of Imogen Walsh and Katherine Copeland held off strong challenges from Australia and Canada who took silver and bronze respectively.
One of the most highly anticipated races was the men’s eight with Olympic Champions, Germany racing World Champions Great Britain and new talents Russia. This was Germany’s first major race of the season and they proved to still have the winning edge by finishing ahead of Russia. Great Britain was third.
The 2014 World Rowing Cup series is now complete. Up next is the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Varese (ITA) from 23-27 July 2014. Then the World Rowing Junior Championships will take place in Hamburg (GER) from 6-10 August 2014. The highlight of the season, the World Rowing Championships, will be held from 24-31 August in Amsterdam (NED).
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