Rowing FISA World Championships 2019

[heywoodu 15,174]

Why is (for example) the M4- called 'coxless four', and M4x called 'quadruple sculls', even though the quadruple sculls also is coxless?  

[GoPoland 0]

Very good race for our W4- and 4th place.

[GoPoland 0]

Wow. What a race in W4x and silver for us.

[JoshMartini007 2,547]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Why is (for example) the M4- called 'coxless four', and M4x called 'quadruple sculls', even though the quadruple sculls also is coxless?  

 

Aren't the sculls events always coxless?

[Kaileena 1]

The wind is very mixed today. Some tracks are great and some are terrible. German women are not so weak that they lose 10 seconds with the first three in W4x. I wonder what happened to Australia in M4-.

[AlFHg 330]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Why is (for example) the M4- called 'coxless four', and M4x called 'quadruple sculls', even though the quadruple sculls also is coxless?  

Because there were other competitions in which we had, for example, a 2+ and a 4+ (like the Abbagnale brothers and Di Capua ) which were not sculls

[GoPoland 0]

Another medal for M4x. Silver. Very good results today for our team. Congrats.

[phelps 7,706]

women's Fours

Gold: Australia

Silver: Netherlands

Bronze: Denmark

 

men's Fours

Gold: Poland

Silver: Romania

Bronze: Great Britain

 

women's Quadruple Sculls

Gold: China

Silver: Poland

Bronze: Netherlands

 

men's Quadruple Sculls

Gold: Netherlands

Silver: Poland

Bronze: Italy

[phelps 7,706]

very, very disappointing results for Italy...

 

we lost 1 Gold (M4X) and 1 Silver (M4-) medal from last year in the space of less than half an hour...and earlier we saw the epic fail of our Golden Pair from 2017...

 

we might have got even more Olympic quota than expected, but if it wasn't for the usual suspects (LM2X), we wouldn't get a single medal in the Olympic classes...

 

definitely not a good way to enter the Olympic Games next year...

[OlympicsFan 858]

Absolutely ridiculous results so far. Ireland, Poland and the Netherlands are suddenly powerhouses. Meanwhile the powerhouses Great Britain and Germany barely win any medals.

The Netherlands have 5 medals in olympic events after the first day, more than Germany, GB, China and the US combined. No other nation has more than 3 medals. The Netherlands are making a complete mockery of this sport.