Halfpipe WC Secret Garden, China
This WC venue was the site of the Beijing Olympics.
Women
Gold- Eileen Gu (90.00)
Silver- Li Fanghui (82.25)
Bronze- Svea Irving (80.00)
Big causality in women’s qualification, with Karker failing to land either of her runs
Men
Gold- Nicholas Goepper (95.00)
Silver- Alex Ferreira (92.25)
Bronze- David Wise (89.00)
Full Results
Day 1 Results - 07.12.2024
Top Group
A
- 2-7
CZE 2
GER -
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SUI -
NOR 0
B
- 3-4
- 12-4
SWE 2
FIN 2
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LAT 0
SVK 0
Challenger Group
C
- 5-3
EST 2
CAN -
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PHI -
AUS 0
D
- 5-4
- 10-3
DEN 2
POL 2
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THA 0
SLO 0
Our results are definitely not better, we always do so well in U19 and U23 and then at that point most of our rowers quit to find a career where they can actually make money. Romania and Italy at least have big teams for the Olympics. We've never had more than 4 boats.
For example, just look at our U19 women's team from 2022. We won gold in W1X, W2- and W2X.
W1X Gkogkou is now in her second year at Yale University. She didn't compete for the national team last summer in U23 even.
W2- Asvesta is at University of Texas and still rows I guess but didn't compete with our national team last summer. Argyraki has not competed since 2022, not even in club rowing, so she probably is focusing on her studies.
W2X Natsioula quit rowing at age 17 to study medicine and Dalidou is at Harvard University, but again, she did not compete with the national team in U23 last year either.
Only two years later and already none of these 5 girls are with the Greek national team, hopefully at least one or two will come back at some point after their studies but I've thought that in the past about some of the girls who go to the US and we never see them again...