[World Cup Rowing, Vaires/Paris, France]
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© Henk Schrik / June 1997 / © foto's: Henk Schrik [World Cup Rowing, Vaires/Paris, France] |
PARIS
International
Rowing Regatta
1997World Cup Rowing
Bumpy but fast rowing water
The second of three World Cup Rowing tournaments at Vaires-sur-Marne between Paris and Disneyland had an extra complete rowing team present, because the Australians had started their European Tour, visiting Paris, Amsterdam and Lucerne. The Italian team was absent a second time. With a limited budget, the Dutch team had made a choice this year for Cologne, Munich, of course Amsterdam, and Lucerne.
Although the water was bumpy in Vaires-sur-Marne, the tailwind made racing very fast (for the crews who could cope with this kind of circumstances of course). Fast times for instance in the men's single scull by Iztok Cop, and the British coxless four.
Zapping TV-stations at the right times, about half an hour of racing, some ten events, could be seen on German-ZDF and the BBC; a few impressions and the results as far as I could collect.A few impressions
Unlike in Munich the Norwegian Olympic silver medallists in the double scull, Kjetil Undset and Steffen Storseth, could not hold off their direct rivals from Munich, the German double, Stephen Volkert and Andreas Hajek; third this time the Australians.
It wasn't a surprise to see the German women quad win again. The crew, as it rowed in Munich with Kppen, Thieme, Evers, Lutze was the better crew over the Ukraine (3rd in Munich) and Denmark. The German womens' sculling headcoach, Jutta Lau, however did make a move in the double and single scull in Paris. Molle/Will rowed the double scull this time. The German crew won, but the win over the British double was not convincing enough. Miriam Batten and Gilian Lindsay have been in the double only for a few weeks. It looked as if the German double had done a little bit too much in the beginning, with claer water between them and the rest after 500m. During the third interval Batten/Lindsay came quite close, but then in the last 500 meters the Germans made a move again to finish one length ahead of the Britons.
Ekaterina Khodotovitch
In Munich, Boron and Rutschow had been the winners in the double scull. Boron tried the single scull this time, Rutschow didn't start at all because of sponsor discussions. Again, like in Munich, the final of the womens' single scull was dominated by Olympic champion Ekaterina Khodotovitch from Belarus. Boron finished second, 4 seconds behind. As the German papers reported, with Boron preferring, the double, we will undoubtedly see Boron/Rutschow again in the double in Lucerne (meanwhile it has been reported that Rutschow is available this season for the German team).
Mathematically speaking, the German mens' sweep headcoach Ralf Holtmeyer, made a strange move, by changing two variables in one race. From personnell, he left Landvoigt out, and got Guhl (from the strong coxless pair) in, and having Viefers in stroke position. The second variable was another type of boat then they used to row in. The outcome of the final was quite surprising. The Australian eight made a very strong impression, the clear winners in this final. The Romanians, in the bad outer lanes in Munich a few weeks ago, performed much better this time and finished second; Germany was left third place, leaving Holtmeyer with the question, was it the boat this time or the crew that was responsible for only a third place.
That powering away method from the start of most or if not all Romanian crews always makes you wonder during the race, how long can they keep this pace, at what stage do they have to give in and loose the race. Sometimes they loose, sometimes they keep the pace until the end and win, as was the case with the womens' coxless pair, with Victoria Cochela stroking the boat. During the third interval the other crews came closing in on the Romanians, but they countered the attack and won decisively.
This time no strong German coxless pair in the men's event, because Guhl had been taken into the eight. Therefore the British pair, Hunt-Davis and Thatcher, already surprisingly strong in Munich with a second place, had their go in this final in Paris, by leading the race almost through to the end. A clear lead they had the British pair, but then some 300 meters to go, Petkus/Bagdonas from Lithuania (OS96-10th who vary a lot between very strong races and very bad races) made a strong move and past the British pair. The French, who also put in a strong spurt, came too late to overtake the Brits. Croatias' pair that won in Munich only finished fifth this time.
With the Dutch eight of the last few years as an example (getting a number of experienced rowers from different disciplines in one boat) the French must have thought to try this policy also. Early March they came to Amsterdam to compete in a tournament to warm up. In Munich the eight was not succesful, partly because, like the Romanians, they rowed in one of the outer lanes. This time in Paris they started in two coxless fours to give the winning Britsh coxless four from Munich some hard competition. And both French crews with Olympic silver and bronse medallists on board gave the British crew with Pinsent, Foster, Redgrave and Cracknell a hard time. It needed almost a world record (0.27 seconds off that record, set by the Italians in 1995 in Lucerne), to win this race. The Brits won, ahead of both French boats.
Another winner after Munich again was single sculler Iztok Cop from Slovenia. This time he had Greg Searle (GBR), Andris Reinholds (LAT) Aly Ibrahim Aly (EGY), Frederik Bekken (NOR), and Harald Nussbaumer (AUT) next to him in the final. During the race Aly had a clear lead over the rest of the field including Cop, a clear lead that looked like to end in a clear win for the Egyptian, after his second place in Munich behind Cop. But surely Cop has sprinting qualities (remember the final in Tampere 1995 winning from Jaanson). Aly, clearly having some problems in the bumpy water over the last few hundred meters, was not able to answer the strong burst that Cop put in, in the last 200 meters. The outcome the same as in Munich, Cop first, Aly second.
Bernd Rühling and Ingo Euler (GER, Essen, 1997)
Yet another crew that not only won in Paris, but also in Munich, the German mens' lightweight double scull with Bernd Rhling and Ingo Euler. As i wrote earlier, last year Euler and Rhling battled against each other for selection in the German lightweight double; Euler formed the double with Uhrig, they finished 11th at the Games. This year Euler/Rhling seem to form a talented double, beating the Olympic champions, the Swiss brothers Gier, twice in Cologne. (see the reports on Cologne and Essen). In Munich they won their heat, the semi-final and the final. In Munich, the Swiss brothers Gier ended 5th in the unfortunate lane 5. This time they finished already closer to Rhling/Euler, they only came 0.33 seconds short. Third again, like in Munich, the French Touron/Dufour.
The results
In Amsterdam I spoke to the Australian teammanager (to my disgrace I forgot his name). He kindly provided me with all the final results of the Paris regatta; therefore the results below are now complete, including crew-names and split-times.
M2-
1. LIT Einius Petkus / Juozas Bagdonas 1.34.12 3.11.30 4.50.08 6.26.61 2. GBR Bob Thather / Ben Hunt-Davis 1.35.73 3.12.18 4.48.92 6.27.02 3. FRA Vincent Malizewski / Bernard Roche 1.36.04 3.13.59 4.51.38 6.28.33 4. ROM Cornel Nemtoc / Dorin Alupei 1.33.27 3.12.56 4.52.35 6.30.81 5. CRO Igor Boraska / Tihomir Frankovic 1.33.77 3.13.23 4.53.60 6.33.77 6. AUS Robert Jahrling / Stuart Mcrae 1.32.55 3.10.96 4.52.02 6.35.28 M2x
1. GER Stephan Volkert / Andreas Hajek 1.30.23 3.05.49 4.38.47 6.14.58 2. NOR Kjetil Undset / Steffen Storseth 1.32.13 3.07.30 4.41.22 6.16.53 3. AUS Duncan Free / Marcus Free 1.29.66 3.05.92 4.42.06 6.17.04 4. BEL Tom Symoens / Bjorn Hendrickx 1.30.68 3.06.77 4.42.55 6.19.30 5. POL Adam Korol / Marek Kolbowicz 1.31.88 3.08.97 4.46 47 6.25.79 6. UKR Leonid Schaposchnikow / Oleg Likow 1.32.92 3.08.68 4.45.33 6.27.90 M4-
1. GBR Jame Cracknell, Steven Redgrave, 1.23.51 2.50.95 4.19.26 5.48.16 Tim Foster, Matthew Pinsent 2. FRA-1Jean Christophe Rolland, Michel Andrieux1.25.03 2.51.37 4.19.74 5.48.93 Gille Bosquet, Daniel Fauche 3. FRA-2Oliver Moncelet, Bertrand Vecten, 1.26.73 2.54.21 4.22.56 5.50.75 Antoine Beghin, Laurent Beghin 4. POL Arkdiusz Nowak, Wojcieck Jankowski, 1.24.74 2.54.56 4.24.16 5.55.07 Pitr Basta, Maciejc Lasicki 5. GER Stefan Heinze, Uwe Steenblock, 1.24.47 2.53.58 4.24.56 5.56.35 Stefan Forster, Kai Horl 6. ROM Viorel Talapan, Andrei Banica, 1.25.61 2.52.88 4.23.35 5.56.86 Claudio Marin, Florian Tudor M1x
1. SLO Iztok Cop 1.36.35 3.18.37 5.00.61 6.43.10 2. EGY Aly Ibrahim Aly 1.35.72 3.17.17 4.59.20 6.44.30 3. NOR Frederik Bekken 1.38.24 3.20.48 5.02.70 6.51.63 4. LAT Andris Reinholds 1.36.94 3.21.12 5.04.55 6.52.37 5. AUT Horst Nussbaumer 1.40.18 3.23.50 5.09.02 6.57.79 6. GBR Greg Searle 1.39.86 3.24.79 5.10.77 7.01.29 M4x
1. BLR Denis Tabako, Guennadi Tapounov, 1.24.22 2.52.38 4.19.85 5.48.63 Oleg Solokakhine, Konstantin Belevitch 2. AUS Richard Roach, Stuart Reside, 1.26.18 2.54.71 4.22.84 5.49.82 Martin Inglis, Craig Jones 3. SUI Andre Vonarburg, Andreas Bihrer, 1.25.15 2.53.34 4.20.72 5.50.54 Michael Erdlen, Simon Sturm 4. FRA Mario Vera, Yvan Deslaviere, 1.24.79 2.53.75 4.22.11 5.51.32 Eric Rousseaux, Sebastian Vieilledent 5. SWE Jacob Knejp, Pontus Ek, 1.26.41 2.54.17 4.22.49 5.52.47 Mickael Nilsson, Per Andersson 6. NOR Kristian Skorgevik, Knut-Georg Engebu 1.27.54 2.56.01 4.24.01 5.53.83 Tor-Albert Ersdal, Stian Kjennvold M8+
1. AUS Crowley McDonald, Geoff Stewart, 1.12.65 2.44.46 4.07.43 5.29.52 Alastair Gordon, Daniel Burke, David Colvin, Richard Wearne, Robert Walker, David Porzig, 2. ROM Valentin Robu, Florin Corbeanu, 1.23.12 2.45.91 4.08.69 5.31.09 Viorel Talapan, Florian Tudor, Claudio Marin, Andrei Banica, Cornel Nemtoc, Dorin Alupei 3. GER Mark Kleinschmidt, Jochen Lerche, 1.21.08 2.45.42 4.09.25 5.34.25 Ingmar Guhl, Wolfram Huhn, Robert Sens, Sebastian Thormann, Enrico Schnabel, Ulrich Viefers 4. GBR David Beckley, Damian West, 1.22.11 2.47.60 4.11.66 5.36.24 Simon Dennis, Richard Dunn, Christian Cormack, Louis Attrill, Toby Garbett, Peter Wilson 5. FRA Ludovic Jean, Fabien Nion, 1.24.80 2.49.91 4.17.11 5.44.68 Bertrand Haas, Sidney Chouraki, Charles Henri, Maxence, Romain Noel, Michael Parmentier, Sbastien Casset MLW2x
1. GER Ingo Euler / Bernard Rhling 1.32.28 3.08.30 4.41.91 6.18.76 2. SUI Markus Gier / Michael Gier 1.33.05 3.07.25 4.42.38 6.19.09 3. FRA Frederic Dufour / Pascal Touron 1.32.04 3.07.86 4.42.70 6.19.88 4. AUT Martin Kobau / Helfried Jurtschitsch 1.32.51 3.09.44 4.43.72 6.24.63 5. AUS Gary Lynagh / Anthony Edwards 1.33.57 3.08.94 4.45.53 6.28.64 6. POL Tomasz Fizka / Robert Sycz 0.00.00 3.10.94 4.48.17 6.28.91 MLW4-
1. DEN Thomas Ebert, Thomasd Poulsen, 1.25.09 2.52.70 4.20.66 5.51.54 Eskild Ebbesen, Victor Feddersen 2. FRA Xavier Dorfmann, Laurent Porchier, 1.27.15 2.54.36 4.22.93 5.54.58 Yves Hocde, Frdric Pinon 3. GER Marcus Mielke, Roland Hndle, 1.26.04 2.55.08 4.24.95 5.56.73 Jan Herzog, Martin Weis 4. GBR-1Nick Strange, Ian Watson, 1.26.64 2.56.04 4.25.35 5.58.13 John Williamson, Andrew Butt 5. GBR-2David lemon, Jim McNiven, 1.26.29 2.56.40 4.27.26 6.01.41 Alex Hensilwood, Jim Hartland 6. IRL Derek Holland, Sam Lynch, 0.00.00 2.58.24 4.29.90 6.03.48 Nevil Maxwell, Tony O'Conner W2-
1. ROM Georgeta Damian / Veronica Cochela 1.43.46 3.29.97 5.18.72 7.09.24 2. GBR Dot Blackie / Cath Bishop 1.46.55 3.34.79 5.22.69 7.12.83 3. AUS Bronwyn Thompson / Rachael Taylor 1.44.19 3.31.91 5.22.11 7.15.28 4. GBR Sue Walker / Lisa Eyre 1.46.99 3.35.98 5.27.02 7.19.21 5. BLR Marina Znak / Tamara Davynenko 1.46.25 3.37.55 5.31.46 7.23.26 6. GER Kathleen Naser / Gerte John 1.48.46 3.42.14 5.35.47 7.27.38 W2x
1. GER Danielle Molle / Christiane Will 1.36.42 3.19.30 5.03.27 6.50.84 2. GBR Miriam Batten / Gillian Lindsay 1.37.77 3.21.12 5.04.67 6.52.71 3. SUI Bernadette Wicki / Caroline Lhti 1.38.43 3.21.69 5.06.73 6.55.41 4. ROM Viorica Susanu / Liliane Gafenuc 1.39.26 3.22.55 5.08.61 6.57.30 5. LIT Kristina Poplawskaja / Birute Sakickiene1.38.98 3.24.19 5.11.05 6.58.15 6. AUS Jane Robinson / Gina Douglas 1.41.06 3.27.31 5.13.66 7.03.25 W1x
1. BLR Ekatarina Khodotovitch 1.44.75 0.00.00 5.23.96 7.18.24 2. GER Kathrin Boron 1.46.01 0.00.00 5.26.61 7.22.31 3. BUL Roumania Neikova 1.46.52 0.00.00 5.27.41 7.24.71 4. SWE Maria Brandin 1.47.91 0.00.00 5.32.12 7.31.22 5. DEN Trine Hansen 1.48.24 0.00.00 5.36.79 7.36.69 6. NOR Kristine Bjerknes 1.51.69 0.00.00 5.42.29 7.39.54 7. FRA Celine Garcia 1.50.33 0.00.00 5.43.02 7.41.89 W4x
1. GER Manuela Lutze, Meike Evers, 1.31.34 3.07.97 4.43.00 6.22.19 Jana Thieme, Kerstin Kppen 2. UKR Dina Niftaqxhoutdinova, Svetlana Maziy, 1.32.39 3.10.78 4.48.18 6.25.94 Inna Frolova, Olena Ronzina 3. DEN-1Ulla Werner Hansen, Stinne Pedersen, 1.33.49 3.10.26 4.47.84 6.26.27 Inger Pors, Sarah Lauritzen 4. BLR Natalia Stassiouk, Alexandra Pankina, 1.35.55 3.13.21 4.52.94 6.33.76 Galina Avdeitchouk, Natalia Lavrinenko 5. GBR ??, ??, ??, ?? 1.38.17 3.19.04 5.01.16 6.43.61 6. DEN-2??, ??, ??, ?? 1.39.99 3.24.59 5.09.73 6.54.00 W8+
1. ROM Georgete Damian, Viorica Susanu, 1.28.05 3.02.96 4.37.92 6.14.02 Iona Olteanu, Angela Cazac, Elena Georgescu Veronica Cochela, Anca Tanase, Doina Spircu 2. BLR Marina Znak, Elena Mikoulitch, 1.13.27 3.10.54 4.47.79 6.26.43 Tamara Davydenko, Valiantina Skrabatun, Svetlana Poliashchuk, Natalia Lialina, Marina Kouzzmar, Olga Zagaeva WLW2x
1. SWE Monika Knejp / Kristina Knejp 1.43.02 3.27.75 5.13.88 7.01.38 2. GER Michelle Darvill / Angelika Brand 1.42.30 3.25.98 5.13.16 7.02.16 3. ROM Maria Sava / Camelia Macoviciuc 1.40.64 3.24.74 5.08.71 7.02.60 4. DEN Lene Andersson / Anna Helleberg 1.42.70 3.26.73 5.14.58 7.05.27 6. ROM Kryst Bislitzki / Aggeliki Gremou 1.44.28 3.30.83 5.23.40 7.16.40 M4+
1. GBR-1Gary McAdams, Alex Story, 1.29.79 3.04.66 4.40.20 6.15.40 Ed Coode, Steve Thopmore 2. FRA Nicolas Coassin, Antony Perrot, 1.32.45 3.07.86 4.41.75 6.15.95 Jean jacques Gauthier, David Michalski 3. GRB-2James Edwards, Damian Wright, 1.32.69 3.09.06 4.44.45 6.19.31 Nicholas Story, David Hutchins MLW2-
1. FRA-2Henri Pierre Dall'Acqua 1.35.39 0.00.00 4.56.09 6.40.66 2. AUS ??, ?? 1.36.16 0.00.00 4.57.20 6.42.56 3. FRA-1Alexandre Spicq, Stphane Barre 1.35.84 0.00.00 4.58.38 6.43.37 4. SWE ??, ?? 1.36.55 0.00.00 5.00.14 6.45.44 5. DEN Jeppe Kollat Jensen, Jac Oivind Nielsen 1.34.63 0.00.00 4.57.99 6.45.73 6. FRA3Jean David Bernard, Ludovic Kaminski 1.38.30 0.00.00 5.09.27 6.54.41 MLW1x
1. SUI Michael Bnninger 1.40.22 3.25.38 5.12.16 7.01.16 2. AUT Wolfgang Sigl 1.41.67 3.26.48 5.12.90 7.03.66 3. DEN Karsten Nielsen 1.39.66 3.25.75 5.14.10 7.05.89 4. GER Christian Dahlke 1.40.55 3.27.20 5.17.21 7.08.81 5. IRL Gearoid Towey 1.42.32 3.30.53 5.20.40 7.09.81 6. LTU Rolandas Kazlauskas 1.41.95 3.28.32 5.19.87 7.12.91 MLW4x
1. GER Markus Baumann, Frank Mager, 5.56.33 The clock was jumpy too Oliver Ibielski, Alexander Lutz therefore no split-times 2. IRL Emmet O'Brien, John Armstrong 5.59.36 Neal Byrne, Brendan Dolan 3. GBR Gareth Ireland, Richard Adams, 6.05.38 Stephen Lee, Stuart Whitelaw MLW8+
1. AUS Tim Wright, Matt Russel, 1.23.75 2.48.02 4.14.51 5.41.90 Darren Balmporth, Jon Berney, Brett Hayman Simon Burgess, Robert Mitchell, Michael Wiseman 2. GER Martin hasse, Stefan Locher, Jan Plock, 1.23.30 2.49.30 4.16.51 5.42.82 Matthias Edeler, Eric Klotz, Bjorn Endruweit, Dirk Jenny, Vladimir Vukelic 3. GBR ??, 1.25.06 2.51.94 4.18.99 5.45.40 4. DEN Morten Riis, Michael Jensen, 1.24.22 2.51.40 4.20.06 5.47.15 Jacob Mejdal, Willi Drekel, Dennis Romar, Carsten Glud, Jrn Hamdorf, Bo Svendsen WLW1x
1. POL Liona Mokronowska 1.50.11 3.46.43 5.45.01 7.42.59 2. FRA Myriam Lamolle 1.52.93 3.50.53 5.48.64 7.47.02 3. AUT Karola Schustereder 1.55.90 3.53.55 5.54.62 7.56.67 4. CRO Mirna Rajle 1.54.64 3.54.34 5.57.82 8.01.96 5. GBR Jane Hall 1.54.21 3.54.86 5.58.47 8.05.92 6. IRL Ruth Doyle 1.58.17 4.04.42 6.13.30 8.24.74
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