Rowing at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Makedonas 2,200]

  On 7/30/2021 at 1:58 AM, OlympicsFan said:

Also interesting progression by the greek guy in single sculls ... from being completely irrelevant all of his career to olympic gold in such a short time.

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I'm sorry but I think you are quite misinformed. He has been improving year by year. Won his first medal at the 2015 World U23s as a junior, then in 2016 got 6th in Rio in LM4- as a 19 year old.

 

He won several medals at the World and European U23 Championships post-Rio but in different boats because his partners kept quitting the sport despite their success. So after the 2019 European Championships he decided to switch to the single scull and not deal with unreliable partners. In his first event he won silver at the World U23 Championships, then 11 at the World Championships which was not enough to qualify for Rio (in my opinion the competition was stronger there than it was in Rio).

 

Then last year he got 5th at the European Championships and 4th this year (he just missed a medal in the last 10-20 m and he was obviously tired because he has the European Olympic Qualifying regatta a few days before). Beat Zeidler by 14 seconds in earlier this year in a heat (I think it was the European Championships or maybe the World Cup event). It was pretty clear that he improved a lot in the past few years both as he got older and stronger (and switched from lightweight category) and as he spent more time working on the single sculls since he was still new to it in 2019.

 

So I would not say he was "completely irrelevant all of his career" when he was clearly a talented young rower. How many teenagers have made A Finals in recent Olympics besides the three Greeks who did it in Rio LM4- and W2X?

[hckošice 15,127]

Just watched todays finals and wow what a rowing we had this year at the Olympics.

 

and both eights &  

[hckošice 15,127]

Women's Single Sculls
Final Results

 

  Emma TWIGG

7:13.97 OB

 

  Hanna PRAKATSEN   

7:17.39

 

  Magdalena LOBNIG     

7:17.72

 

Final-A Results Here

Full Final Ranking Here

[hckošice 15,127]

Men's Single Sculls
Final Results

 

  Stefanos NTOUSKOS  

6:40.45

 

  Kjetil BORCH     

6:41.66

 

  Damir MARTIN      

6:42.58

 

Final-A Results Here

Full Final Ranking Here

[hckošice 15,127]

Women's Eight
Final Results

 

  Canada 

Lisa Roman

Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski

Christine Roper

Andrea Proske

Susanne Grainger

Madison Mailey

Sydney Payne

Avalon Wasteneys

coxswain: Kristen Kit

5:59.13

 

  New Zealand    

Ella Greenslade

Emma Dyke

Lucy Spoors

Kelsey Bevan

Grace Prendergast

Kerri Gowler

Beth Ross

Jackie Gowler

coxswain: Caleb Shepherd

6:00.04

 

  China     

Wang Zifeng

Wang Yuwei

Xu Fei

Miao Tian

Zhang Min

Ju Rui

Li Jingjing

Guo Linlin

coxswain: Zhang Dechang

6:01.21

 

Final-A Results Here

Full Final Ranking Here

[hckošice 15,127]

Men's Eight
Final Results

 

  New Zealand  

Thomas Mackintosh

Hamish Bond

Tom Murray

Michael Brake

Daniel Williamson

Phillip Wilson

Shaun Kirkham

Matt Macdonald

coxswain: Sam Bosworth

5:24.64

 

  Germany     

Johannes Weissenfeld

Laurits Follert

Olaf Roggensack

Torben Johannesen

Jakob Schneider

Malte Jakschik

Richard Schmidt

Hannes Ocik

coxswain:  Martin Sauer

5:25.60

 

  Great Britain      

Josh Bugajski

Jacob Dawson

Tom George

Mohamed Sbihi

Charles Elwes

Oliver Wynne-Griffith

James Rudkin

Tom Ford

coxswain: Henry Fieldman

5:25.73

 

Final-A Results Here

Full Final Ranking Here

[Orangehair43 258]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9842525/Jurgen-Grobler-accused-destroying-Team-GB-athletes-former-oarsmen-Josh-Bugajski.html
 

 

The reasons for the failure of GB rowing.

[Orangehair43 258]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/tokyo-olymics-russia-usa-rowing-b1893219.html

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/russian-rowing-silver-american-nasty-feeling

 

 

 

Good on them.

[Monzanator 4,611]

Well, I suppose 99% of Americans have no idea who Megan Kalmoe is and they still won't know who she is once the Games are over

[Orangehair43 258]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9848019/Jurgen-Grobler-forced-younger-members-squad-consulted-methods.html
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9848015/Row-ing-continues-Team-GB-mens-eight-bronze-medallist-appears-leave-team-mate-photo.html