Rowing WR World Championships 2023

dodge · September 4, 2023

50 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Do you need to qualify to take part of this tournament, or is it open to everyone ? Or there any other special reason why we are not participating ?

No real restrictions on entries. There’s plenty of info on the pre-event stuff here

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hckošice · September 4, 2023

10 minutes ago, dodge said:

No real restrictions on entries. There’s plenty of info on the pre-event stuff here

Click on information tab

Ok, it must be simply us then. For some reason we did not send anyone. No idea why, as far as I know, the national team was reinstated last year after the previous season drastic dissolution.

Roamingrover86 · September 4, 2023

:IND has not sent a team too. Our Rowing federation had governance issues previously and most rowers are from our Army/navy . They want to concentrate on the Asian Games so decided against sending a team for world championships which offers quota places !
I guess they evaluated we don’t stand a chance to win a quota place in these world championships so better to concentrate on the Asian Games ( we are sending a full team) where we might win medals , possibly Gold as well.

Makedonas · September 4, 2023

Not a great day for us. W2- seems like they will still get the quota regardless, but now the LW2X doesn't look so sure and W2X too young and inexperienced (20 yo and 18 yo). Their U23/U19 success in recent years can only take them so far in such a competitive boat class at the senior level.

That being said, I expect them to be much better next year to fight for a quota, as they'll each be one year older.

The other option is to send a W4- with the Kyridou sisters, Fragkou, and Tsamopoulou which should qualify and then hope a teenage combination of Dalidou with Lioliou or Natsioula can do it in W2X but it won't be easy.

At this point, only M1X and W2- seem 95% likely for us. LM2X and LW2X have been disappointing so far, and I didn't have such high expectations for M2X and W2X anyways.

phelps · September 4, 2023

good news for :ITA :

- the women's Double Sculls (despite being both lightweights, our girls proved themselves more than competitive also among the senior crews...a truly amazing quota place is not out of reach now -they're in the semis, they only need not to end last in the B Final and Paris will not be only a dream anymore)

-the men's Quadruple Sculls look in top form...they might even win it all

the bad news:

-almost everything not mentioned above, especially the women's Quadruple Sculls

the awful news:

Rodini & Cesarini...our women's Lightweight Double Sculls Olympic Champions most likely won't even qualify to the Paris Games...today they were just painful to watch

Adriano · September 5, 2023

W2- (11 places) - Romania, Chile, Netherlands, Australia, Greece, Spain, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Czech Republic.

One country will miss this place.

Germany is out!

Gianlu33 · September 5, 2023

15 hours ago, phelps said:

good news for :

- the women's Double Sculls (despite being both lightweights, our girls proved themselves more than competitive also among the senior crews...a truly amazing quota place is not out of reach now -they're in the semis, they only need not to end last in the B Final and Paris will not be only a dream anymore)

-the men's Quadruple Sculls look in top form...they might even win it all

the bad news:

-almost everything not mentioned above, especially the women's Quadruple Sculls

the awful news:

Rodini & Cesarini...our women's Lightweight Double Sculls Olympic Champions most likely won't even qualify to the Paris Games...today they were just painful to watch