Archive for month: August, 2007

Everyone is invited to watch the FISA Rowing World Championships finals on Saturday at the ACT Rugby Union Club at 51 Blackall Street, Barton ACT. The first final (W1x) is at 18.10 and then every 15 minutes through to 22:10. The A finals are: Women’s single, Men’s single, Women’s pair (with Sarah Cook, YAY!), Men’s pair, Women’s double, Mens double, Adaptive Women’s single and Adaptive Men’s single. Finals are also scheduled for Sunday and include Mens and Womens fours, quads and eights. However due to the late racing times, arrangements have not presently been made to show these events. If any further details are required please contact Laurence Sandral on 0435 017 445. Youth Cup Regatta This comingweekend also has the Youth Cup Regatta at Nagambie and several of our club members are competing there. The athletes left Canberra early this morning. Its unclear where the results will appear, but probably on the Rowing Victoria web site. World Masters Rowing Championships – Zagreb Several Canberra masters rowers are in the process of travelling to Croatia for the World Masters Rowing Championships next week. Results will be available at

The ACT Rowing Association, along with its partners ACT Academy of Sport (ACTAS) and Rowing Australia offer a newly created position, Elite Development Program Co-ordinator. The position will be located in Canberra based at the ACT Academy of Sport (Bruce) with a package of salary and other benefits offered that is commensurate with the successful candidates experience and qualifications. A job description is here and job advertisement is here. Applications Close 5pm Friday 17th September 2007. World Rowing Championships – They have started Rowing Australia has good information about the progress of Australian crews at the World Rowing Championships. The athletes are going well! Follow the progress of our ACT athletes Sarah Cook in the W2- and W8+, and Sonia Mills in the W4x, and even our ex-ACT athlete Fergus Pragnal in the tough M2+.

The results of Sunday’s time trial can be found here. Saturday’s results, and the overall point score are still being compiled. ACT Youth Cup Squad – Selections announced On Friday, 10 August ACTRA announced the selections for the ACT Youth Cup Squad to compete at Nagambie on 31 August to 2 September in this annual event. The team members are listed here. Congratulations to them all. ACT Rowers at World Junior Championships – catch up Our ACT representatives at the World Junior Rowing Championships have been back home for a week now and we are only now getting this record-of-ACT-rowing up-to-date. In case you missed the media reports and results on both the Rowing Australia and FISA web sites: the WJ2- of Christabelle Northam and Veronica Tamsitt came 2nd in the B Final; and the MJ4x- with Nick Barnier and Zac Cleaver also came 2nd in their B Final. A post Day 1 media release is linked below. Some extras for you are: Post Day 2 media release; Post Day 3 media release; and some photos! ACTRA Monthly Newsletter – August The monthly newsletter can be found here [460Kb PDF]. Back numbers can be found here. The August newsletter includes the final ACT Regatta program for the coming season. World Rowing Championships – Next week Make sure you keep up to date with the World Rowing Championships being held next week in Munich. Stories and results can be found at the FISA. Of course, you need to watch out for locals Sarah Cook in the W2- & W8+, and Sonia Mills in the W4x. Ex-local Fergus Pragnal is in the M2+.

The first heats have been rowed and our ACT rowers have done well. Read the ACTRA media release here, which also has a quick note from Gordon Marcks, the coach of the WJ2- that came third in their heat. Also visit the Rowing Australia web site, and the FISA web site for more general information. Winter Time Trial #3 – Call for Entries Entries for the third weekend of ACT Winter Time Trials close this weekend for trialing on 18-19 August. See your club for more details. Entries are open to all. Winter Time Trial Point Score – Progress tables The points so far for participants in the ACT Winter Time Trial series is available here for small boats (Saturdays) and here for larger boats (Sundays) [both small PDFs] Youth Cup Bulletin #2 Issued The second regatta bulletin for the Youth Cup in September has been issued. You can see it here [pdf 500kb] ACT Rowing Course Feasibility Study If your interested in the study into a 2km course on Yarramundi Reach, you can find a copy here [pdf 3.5Mb]