World Rowing Cup II - Day One
Anticipating adverse weather conditions on the Lake Malta course in Poznan, Poland, FISA race officials called for a last-minute schedule change for heats at day one of World Rowing Cup II.
15 New Zealand crews raced across 13 events in heats, with repechages and quarter-finals raced in the afternoon.
Women’s Double Scull (W2x) - Heat
In fourth position at 500m, Brooke Donoghue and Olivia Loe made an impressive move at the 1500m mark in their heat and recorded the fastest qualifying time overall of 06:47.64. Donoghue and Loe progress to the A/B semi-final ahead of Australia in second, and Germany in third.
Women’s Pair (W2-) - Heat
Crews entered in the women’s pair needed a first place finish across four heats to secure a lane in the A/B semi-final. Leading from the start, World Best Time holders Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler took first place in their heat in a time of 06:53.68, ahead of the USA's Megan Kalmoe and Tracy Eisser and with the fastest qualifying time.
Lightweight Women’s Double Scull (LW2x) - Heat
Needing a top two finish, New Zealand’s Zoe McBride and Jackie Kiddle took the lead after the 1500m mark and placed first in their heat in a time of 07:02.25, comfortably progressing to the A/B semi-final and securing the fastest overall time.
Women’s Four (W4-) - Heat
Needing a top three placing to progress to the A/B semi-final, New Zealand’s Eve Macfarlane, Phoebe Spoors, Hannah Osborne and Davina Waddy took a close third place behind Poland in second in the women’s four, safely avoiding a repechage race.
Women’s Single Scull - Heats and Repechages
In her first international race since 2016 Rio Olympics, New Zealand’s Emma Twigg took second place in her women’s single heat in 07:36.21 and moves to the event’s A/B semi-final.
Also competing in the women’s single, U23 world champion Samantha Voss moved into a repechage race after placing third in her heat. Voss needed a top three finish in her repechage to progress into the A/B semi-final, crossing the line behind Germany and Switzerland, again taking third.
Women’s Eight - Heat
Caleb Shepherd joins the women’s eight as coxswain for 2019 after previously leading the men’s eight crew. In heat one, Ruby Tew, Emma Dyke, Lucy Spoors, Kelsey Bevan, Beth Ross, Kirstyn Goodger, Ella Greenslade and Jackie Gowler took second place in 06:19.83 behind Australia.
With only first place crews progressing to the A final, New Zealand moves to a repechage on Saturday (local time).
Lightweight Men’s Single Scull (LM1x) - Heat
In a solid performance, Ben van Dalen took second place in his heat behind Hungary’s Peter Galambos and progresses to the A/B semi-final.
Men’s Pair (M2-) - Heats and Repechages
Taking a comfortable lead from the 500m mark, Michael Brake and Tom Murray took an easy win in their heat, crossing the line in 06:23.60, six seconds ahead of second place Turkey. Brake and Murray move to the A/B semi-final with the fastest qualifying time.
After placing fourth in their heat, Ian Seymour and Anthony Allen moved into a repechage in the men’s pair. Needing a top two finish to secure a lane in the A/B semi-final, Seymour and Allen missed out, taking fourth behind Brazil, Turkey and Argentina, and move to the D Final on Saturday (local time).
Men’s Double Scull (M2x) - Heat and Quarter-Final
Needing a top three placement to avoid a repechage, former world champions Chris Harris and John Storey were in the lead from the 500m mark of their heat, taking first place and progressing to the quarter-final.
In their quarter-final, Harris and Storey struggled to break away from fourth place, narrowly missing out on a lane in the A/B semi-final. Harris and Storey will contest the C Final on Saturday (local time).
Men’s Single Scull (M1x) - Heat and Quarter-Final
World Best Time holder Robbie Manson needed a top three placing in his heat to move to the quarter-final, finishing second in a time of 07:01.16 behind Lithuania’s Mindaugas Griskonis.
Needing a top three finish in his quarter-final to make the A/B semi-final, Manson finished second behind Germany’s Oliver Zeidler.
Lightweight Men’s Double Scull (LM2x) - Heat
Crews lining up for heats in the lightweight men’s double scull needed to take a first place finish to avoid a repechage race. New Zealand’s Harrison Somerville and Matthew Dunham successfully moved to the event’s A/B semi-final on Saturday (local time) after a tussle with Slovakia in second.
Men’s Quad (M4x) - Heat
In the men’s quad, New Zealand’s Jordan Parry, Isaac Grainger, Cameron Crampton and Nathan Flannary crossed the line second in 05:55.07 behind Great Britain in first. Parry, Grainger, Crampton and Flannery progress to the A final.
Men’s Eight (M8+) - Heat
New Zealand’s newly formed men’s eight of James Lassche, Phillip Wilson, Brook Robertson, Hamish Bond, Shaun Kirkham, Mahe Drysdale, Matthew Macdonald, Stephen Jones and coxswain Sam Bosworth raced World Best Time Holders and world champions Germany in their first heat. With Germany in the lead from the 500m mark, New Zealand battled Italy and Canada, taking second place behind Germany. Needing a first place finish to progress to the A Final, New Zealand moved to a repechage.
Facing Italy and Canada again in their repechage, New Zealand need to place in the top four to progress to the A Final on Saturday (local time).
Regatta Information
- There are 823 athletes from 45 countries competing in 23 boat classes.
- The largest boat class for the men’s category is the men’s single sculls and for the women it is the women’s pair.
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Event Information
(Published 20 June)
The entry level is more than double that of World Rowing Cup I and the biggest World Cup ever to take place in Poznan. Overall the last time there was a World Rowing Cup of this size was in 2011 and happened before an Olympic Qualification Regatta. Likewise, later this year, Olympic Qualification will take place during the World Rowing Championship regatta in Linz-Ottensheim, Austria in August.
The Poznan regatta has attracted 45 nations and, for the first time this season, Australia and New Zealand will compete along with a number of Latin American nations. Big teams have entered from Germany, Italy and Great Britain. Germany has the largest team with 28 boats entered. This includes entries in all of the Olympic boat classes.
Germany brings its men’s eight that has gone unbeaten in a final for the last two years. The crew will face a new-look New Zealand eight that includes Olympic Champions Hamish Bond and Mahe Drysdale. Also racing for the first time this season is Australia’s eight who took silver at last year’s World Rowing Championships.
The women’s pair has attracted the biggest field of the women’s boat classes and includes World Champion Hillary Janssens of Canada racing with new partner, Sydney Payne. New Zealand’s silver medal crew of Kerri Gowler and Grace Prendergast are racing as well as Italy’s 2018 fourth-placed crew of Sara Bertolasi and Alessandra Patelli.
This World Rowing Cup regatta includes para-rowing boat classes and features the ongoing battle between World Champion Erik Horrie of Australia and Paralympic Champion Roman Polianskyi of Ukraine. They will race in the PR1 para men’s single sculls. Returning to the PR1 para women’s single sculls is World Champion Birgit Skarstein of Norway who faces competition from five nations.
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Venue Information
Lake Malta regatta course is located in the centre of Poznan. It is one of the most modern venues in the world and over the last twenty years has hosted large international events in water sports. Poznan hosted the 2007 and 2015 European Rowing Championships, the 2009 World Rowing Championships, the 2016 World Rowing Cup III and the 2017 World Rowing Cup II.
Poznan is located in west-central Poland along the Warta River. It is the fifth largest city amongst one of the oldest cities in Poland. Its population is approximately 550,000.
The origins of the first Poznan rowing club go back to the year 1904. Its initiator and founder was Maciej Wierzbinski who settled then in Poznan after a long-term stay in England. In 1912 the Tryton Poznan Association was established, and in 1919 the Students’ Sport Association began life. In the same year the Polish Federation of Rowing Associations (Polski Zwiazek Towarzystw Wioslarskich, PZTW) was established in Poznan. It was one of the first sports federations created in the reborn Poland, and was founded by 13 sports clubs. In 1924 Polish rowers took part in the 9th Olympic Games in Paris for the first time, entering two crews, a single and a four, into competition. They won their first Olympic medal (bronze) during their second Olympic appearance in 1928 in Amsterdam. From 1925, Polish rowing crews participated in the European Championships until their last appearance in 1938. The rowers returned to the European Championships after the Second World War in 1947, in Lucerne.
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World Rowing Cup II Team
Note: some crews have changed since our last announcement.
Women’s Single Scull 1
Emma Twigg (Hawkes Bay Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Mike Rodger (coach)
Women’s Single Scull 2
Sam Voss (Cambridge Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
James Coote (coach)
Women’s Coxless Pair
Kerri Gowler (Aramoho Whanganui Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Grace Prendergast (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Gary Hay (coach)
Women’s Double Scull
Olivia Loe (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Brooke Donoghue (Waikato Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
James Coote (coach)
Women’s Lightweight Double Scull
Zoe McBride (Nelson Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Jackie Kiddle (Star Boating Club, Central RPC)
James Coote (coach)
Women’s Eight
Beth Ross (Petone Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Ella Greenslade (Wairau Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Emma Dyke (Timaru Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Jackie Gowler (Aramoho Whanganui Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Kelsey Bevan (Counties-Manukau Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Kirstyn Goodger (Wairau Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Lucy Spoors (Canterbury Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Ruby Tew (Star Boating Club, Central RPC)
Caleb Shepherd (coxswain) (Waikato Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Gary Hay (coach)
Women’s Four
Davina Waddy (Canterbury Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Eve Macfarlane (Canterbury Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Hannah Osborne (Te Awamutu Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Phoebe Spoors (Canterbury Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Marion Horwell (coach)
Men’s Single Scull
Robbie Manson (Wairau Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Mike Rodger (coach)
Men’s Coxless Pair 1
Tom Murray (Blenheim Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Michael Brake (North Shore Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Gary Roberts (coach)
Men’s Coxless Pair 2
Anthony Allen (Waikato Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Ian Seymour (Wairau Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Tony O’Connor (coach)
Men’s Double Scull
Chris Harris (Aramoho Whanganui Rowing Club, Central RPC)
John Storey (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Calvin Ferguson (coach)
Men’s Lightweight Double Scull
Harrison Somerville (Blenheim Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Matt Dunham (Cambridge Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Calvin Ferguson (coach)
Men’s Lightweight Single Scull
Ben van Dalen (Cambridge Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Calvin Ferguson (coach)
Men’s Quad
Cameron Crampton (Timaru Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Jordan Parry (Tauranga Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Isaac Grainger (Auckland Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Nathan Flannery (Union Christchurch Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Mark Stallard (coach)
Men’s Eight
Brook Robertson (Nelson Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Hamish Bond (North End Rowing Club)
James Lassche (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Mahe Drysdale (West End Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Matt Macdonald (North Shore Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Phillip Wilson (Petone Rowing Club, Central RPC)
Shaun Kirkham (Waikato Rowing Club, Waikato RPC)
Stephen Jones (West End Rowing Club, Auckland RPC)
Sam Bosworth (coxswain) (Avon Rowing Club, Southern RPC)
Tony O’Connor (coach)