The 2017 World Rowing Cup season wrapped up in one of rowing’s favourite locations, the Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland. This is the final World Rowing regatta before the all-important World Rowing Championships and it saw rowers aim to establish their position on the world level. Unrivalled at this regatta was New Zealand who won gold […]
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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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