COME FORWARD - August 2019
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[Type here] COME FORWARD - August 2019 The NSW Union of Rowers Annual General Meeting will be held at Sydney Rowing Club. 11.00am on Sunday August 25th. All members are welcome. The following sections list the NSW representatives in the various Australian teams for the World Rowing events that have taken place so far this year, and the results that the crews achieved. Full results and video of each race is available on the “World Rowing” web site NSW Rowers in the Australian Team for World Cup 2 and World Cup 3 For World Cup 2, Australia was 1st on the Medal Table with 4 Gold (ML1x, M2-, M4-, W8+), 3 Silver (PR1M1x, W2-, M4x) and 4 Bronze (ML2x, WL1x, W2x, W4-) For World Cup 3, Australia was again 1st on the Medal Table with 5 Gold (ML1x, M2-, M4-, W2-, W4-), 3 Silver (WL1x, W2x, W8+) and 1 Bronze (W4x) World Cup 2 World Cup 3 Lightweight Men’s Single Scull Gold Gold Sean Murphy Mosman Rowing Club LightweightMen’s Double Scull Bronze Leon Chambers Sydney University Boat Club 6th A Final Men’s Double Scull (#1) 5th A Final 6th in A Final Hamish Playfair UTS Rowing Club Campbell Watts Sydney University Boat Club Men’s Double Scull (#2) 1st D Final David Bartholot Sydney University Boat Club 6th in B Final Men’s Single Scull Men’s Coxless Four Gold Gold Timothy Masters UTS Rowing Club Nicholas Purnell Sydney University Boat Club Jack Hargreaves Sydney University Boat Club Jack O’Brien Sydney University Boat Club Mobile 0422 370 479 email [email protected] ABN 32 931 252 962 [Type here] Men’s Quad Scull Silver 4th in A Final Cameron Girdlestone Sydney University Boat Club Alexander Purnell Sydney University Boat Club David Watts Sydney Rowing Club Men’s Eight 5th A Final 6th in A Final Robert Black Mosman Rowing Club Angus Moore Sydney Rowing Club Joshua Hicks Sydney Rowing Club 1st in B Final Men’s Coxless Pair* Spencer Turrin Sydney Rowing Club Gold in Men’s Coxless Pair James Medway UTS Rowing Club Cox: Kendall Brodie Sydney Rowing Club Men’s Reserve Sam Hardy Sydney Rowing Club 1st in B Final Men’s Coxless Pair* PR1 Men’s Single Scull (World Cup 2 only): Silver Erik Horrie Sydney Rowing Club * Men’s Coxless Pair #2 Crew, so Australia won both A and B Finals. Women’s Lightweight Double Scull 2nd C Final 2nd in B Final Sarah Pound UTS Rowing Club Women’s Double Scull Bronze Silver Genevieve Horton Sydney University Boat Club Women’s coxless Pair (#2) 3rd C Final 3rd in B Final Georgina Gotch Sydney University Boat Club Women’s Quad Scull 4th A Final Bronze Fiona Ewing Sydney University Boat Club Rowena Meredith Sydney University Boat Club Women’s Eight Gold Silver Leah Saunders Sydney Rowing Club Georgina Rowe UTS Rowing Club NSW Rowers in the Australian Team for the U23 World Championships Australia =4th on the medal Table with 2 Gold (M4+ and W1x), 1 Silver (W2x) and 1 Bronze (W4+) The video of the W1x Ria Thompson is fabulous viewing… https://www.eurovisionsports.tv/fisa/#AHDELRTJ6C Women’s Lightweight Single Scull 3rd B Final Georgina Masters UTS Rowing Club Women’s Double Scull Silver Medal Harriet Hudson Sydney Rowing Club Women’s Coxless Pair 4th B Final Tara Rigney Sydney University Boat Club Dyone Bettega Sydney University Boat Club Mobile 0422 370 479 email [email protected] ABN 32 931 252 962 [Type here] Women’s Coxless Four 3rd B Final Grace Reid UTS Rowing Club Nicela Martincic UTS Rowing Club Men’s Coxless Four 3rd B Final Nick Lavery UTS Rowing Club Marcus Britt Sydney University Boat Club Will O’Shannessy Sydney University Boat Club NSW Rowers in the Australian Team for the U21 Trans Tasman Series 1st Leg The results for this regatta are too complex to detail here, but the full results are available here https://ra.rowingmanager.com/regattas/4759/results The broadest summary is that after the first round, New Zealand leads Australia 371 points to 305 points. The second Round is at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand from August 22nd to 24th. Women’s Single Scull Adelaide Scott UTS Rowing Club Women’s Coxless Pair Lauren Graham Sydney Rowing Club Isabelle Furrer Sydney Rowing Club Coxswains Talia Barnet-Hepples Sydney University Boat Club Andrew Le Sydney University Boat Club NSW Rowers in the Australian Team for the Junior World Championships Australia =5th on medal table with 1 Gold in the Junior Men’s Double Scull Women’s Double Scull 1st in the D Final Sophie Houston Sydney University Boat Club Men’s Coxless Four 3rd in the B Final Torben Ungemach Mosman Rowing Club Nikolas Pender Mosman Rowing Club Men’s Coxed Four 5th in the A Final Nicholas Rath Mosman Rowing Club Lexi McClean Mosman Rowing Club Harry Keenan (Cox) Sydney Rowing Club NSW Rowers also competed at the Henley Royal and Women’s Regattas. In the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup for School Eights, The Scots College had a win and a loss in their first round heats which was not good enough to advance to the next round. In the Britannia Challenge Cup, Sydney Rowing Club won both their heats, but were beaten in the Semi- Final. In the Diamond Jubilee Challenge Cup for U16 Women’s Quads, a Kinross Wollaroi crew competed in the heat, but were beaten and did not advance to the next round. In the Wyfold Challenge Cup for Men’s Coxless Fours, the Sydney Rowing Club Four: Oscar Carr- Middleton, Oscar Olsen, Alex Nichol and Alex Potter were undefeated through three heats, the semi-final and the final and so are 2019 champions. As the commentator said, an outstanding achievement for such a young crew. Mobile 0422 370 479 email [email protected] ABN 32 931 252 962 [Type here] The photos below are screen-shots taken from paused moments in the video of each of the races. In the Henley Women’s Regatta, the Sydney Rowing Club crew of Lily Gavan, Jasmine Bowers, Lily Eales and Sarah Abrams, were 5th (out of 18 crews) in the time trial and qualified for the match racing rounds where they were beaten by the crew which was 3rd in the time trials and eventually beaten in the final. Balmain Para Rower Ruby Sutherland, in the PR3 Para Rowing single scull put up a good show against a very experienced and strong opponent, but was beaten in the first round. The Sydney University crew of Michaela Franz and Lizzie Treloar won their first round race, but were beaten in the semi-final. Mobile 0422 370 479 email [email protected] ABN 32 931 252 962 [Type here] The up-coming International Competitions are U21 Trans Tasman Thu 22/08/2019 – Sat 24/08/2019 Lake Karapiro New Zealand World Rowing Chs Sun 25/08/2019 – Sun 01/09/2019 Linz Austria World Masters Chs Wed 11/09/2019 – Sun 15/09/2019 Budapest Hungary NSW Rowers in the Australian Team for the INAS Global Games The following is a quote from the web site for the Games (See the link below) Indoor competition is Saturday 12th to Tuesday 15th October, and on-the-water competition is from Wednesday 16th to Friday 18th October. “The INAS Global Games is the largest sporting event for elite athletes with an intellectual impairment. In Brisbane 2019, over 1000 elite athletes will compete across nine sports in a captivating and inspirational celebration of sport, culture and ability.” https://www.inasglobalgames.org/#the-games Bronte Marshall Balmain Rowing Club Julia Story Drummoyne Rowing Club Ruby Sutherland Balmain Rowing Club Eleanor Taylor PLC Sydney/Balmain Rowing Club Stephanie Walker Balmain Rowing Club Lauren Webber Balmain Rowing Club William Clifton Leichhardt Rowing Club Nikolai Olding Balmain Rowing Club ARCHIVES Some things change, others don’t. Mortlake has changed so as to be unrecognizable, but the Putney Ferry has not changed all that much. Louis Petrin’s Archives include fabulous memorabilia and a visit whenever Louis has the archives open is highly recommended. Keep an eye out for notices of when these openings occur. Mobile 0422 370 479 email [email protected] ABN 32 931 252 962 [Type here] In early December there will be an open day at which the Union of Rowers will present certificates to those rowers clocking up 50 years in the sport as well as the Master of the year. More details nearer the time. Scholarship Club Mobile 0422 370 479 email [email protected] ABN 32 931 252 962 [Type here] The 2019 – 2020 Youth Development Scholarship Club is open and Members and Friends are encouraged to participate. Please check out the flyer and order form below: Membership A reminder that membership renewals are due. Over the course of the last 12 months we have found that at least a quarter of all the email addresses we have on file are faulty in one way or another, such as being inactive due to members having new email addresses. It is quite difficult and costly to contact members by snail mail. 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