A.C.T. Sculler Luke Letcher finished up 16th out of the 30 single scullers racing in the World Under 23 Rowing Championships in Varese, Italy on Saturday. Although the result was disappointing, the 20 year old will benefit from racing the best in the world in this most competitive boat class.
Luke still has another two seasons to compete as an under 23, and he will be looking to be more consistent across his racing in the future.
David Bagnall – President
Start list and results for the Winter Time trial series are now under the competition tab.
Here is a link to the WTT3 event information
The ANU Boat Club is pleased to announce that it has finally achieved 50 years of age! And it has not just survived that first half century but thrived. The club now has 140 members, is one of the top performing clubs in Australian university rowing, and is ANU Sport’s Club of the Year.
To help celebrate its first 50 years the club invites you to the ANUBC Golden Jubilee Celebration dinner in the Federation Ballroom at the Canberra Hyatt Hotel on 18 October 2014. This will be a great opportunity to reconnect with friends from your rowing days at ANU, reminisce about those memorable mornings on Sullivan’s Creek and Lake Burley Griffin, and celebrate the club’s achievements.
Tickets available by emailing vice-president@anuboatclub.org
Luke Letcher progresses though first round of world under 23 Championships.
The Black Mountain Rowing Club single sculler Luke Letcher has progressed through the first round of racing as an Australian representative in the under 23 World Rowing Championships at Varese, Italy overnight. The 20 year old faced a big field of 29 other competitors, who are the best from their respective nations.
Luke rowed a controlled race to get third place in his heat behind the Serbian and Belarus scullers. The first four scullers from each of the five heats progress though to quarter finals on Friday morning (Italian time). Other heat winners were from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, and Greece.
The European scullers Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczk (Poland), Boris Yotez (Azerbaijan) and Michal Plocek of the Czech Republic are regarded as favourites for the event.
Luke will be competing in quarter finals against these impressive Europeans to progress through to semi finals on Saturday.
The A and B Finals for this event will be held on Sunday.
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The Australian Rowing Team is all set to compete this weekend in the final round of the World Rowing Cup. The event runs from Friday 11 July to Sunday 13 July on the Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland and sees Australia entering 22 crews across 17 events.
In the third and final World Rowing Cup event of the season, Australia will be aiming to claim victory not only in many of the events it is competing in but also get its hands on the World Rowing Cup, the trophy awarded to the country with the most World Rowing points at the end of the three events each year.
A list of all the crews competing for Australia at the World Rowing Cup III can be found here on World Rowing’s website, Australia features on Pages Four and Five. For detail on the form of the Australian Rowing Team check out the Rowing Australia website here.
Fox Sports Australia will be broadcasting the finals of World Rowing Cup III on Sunday 13 July from 1830 to 2330 (AEST) on Fox Sports 3. World Rowing will also be live-streaming the finals via www.worldrowing.com.
The Rowing ACT regatta dates for the upcoming season are now final. The Regatta Subcommittee met in late June to schedule the upcoming season. The calendar includes two pre premiership season events, the Disher Cup and Col Panton Memorial Marathon. The Premiership season then starts on the 1November with the Capital Lakes RC regatta. The Head of the Molonglo Marathon has been moved to November to allow crews preparing for the Head of the Yarra some preparation and to link to a very special November tradition to be announced soon.
The 2014 half of the season concludes on the 6th December with the Black Mountain RC regatta and the season recommences in January with the Australia Day Bridge to Bridge race for eights. Once again the ACT Schools Head of the Lake will feature in the program along with a sprint regatta to conclude the summer season.
The Regatta Subcommittee will continue to review and make changes where required to the regatta Order of Events and ACT Championships Order of Events. Once this process has been completed the final order of events will be published.
2014-2015 SEASON DATES
18 October 2014 – Disher Cup Regatta
26 October 2014 – Col Panton Memorial Marathon
1 November 2014 – Capital Lakes RC Regatta
15 November 2014 – Canberra Boys/Girls Grammar Regatta
16 November 2014 – Head of the Molonglo Marathon
22 November 2014 – Lake Tuggeranong Festival Cup Regatta
6 December 2014 – Black Mountain RC Regatta
26 January 2015 – Australia Day Bridge to Bridge Race
7 February 2015 – Australian National University BC Regatta
21 February 2015 – Radford College Regatta
14-15 March 2015 – ACT State Championships (CRC/Marist)
21 March 2015 – ACT Schools Head of the Lake (Daramalan)
18 April 2015 – ACT Sprint Regatta (ANUBC)
ACT athletes Cara Grzeskowiak and Sarah Davis have been outstanding as part of an Australian Under 21 team competing in the first leg of the Trans Tasman competition against New Zealand in Penrith. They are part of a team that are combining in a mixture of small and large boat events for the Rusty Robertson Trophy.
Cara was a convincing winner of the single Sculls event ahead of Sarah, followed by the Kiwi Representatives. This is Cara’s first International event. The two Canberra girls then joined in a quad with Melbourne and Sydney University lightweights Lucy Trembath and Holly Lawrence to comfortably win the quad sculls.
At the end of Saturdays racing Australia led New Zealand in the point score 128 to 102, with eight-oared races for men and women to be held this morning to complete the Australian leg of this competition. The Kiwis will hope to take some points from the Australian crews to keep this series alive.
The second leg of this Trans Tasman contest will be held at Lake Karapiro near Cambridge, N.Z in late August.