7th WORLD UNIVERSITY ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP
Nottingham, Great Britain
August 22nd to 24th, 2002
The 7th edition of the World University Rowing Championships took place at the National Water Sports Center's 2000-meter rowing course at Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire. Twenty-one nations sent crews to participate in the event.
Among the winners of Thursday August 22nd heats who qualified directly for the finals on Saturday were the single scullers Jane Rumball of Canada and Miroslava Knapkova of the Czech Republic, and the lightweight sculler Eva Lutz of Germany and another Czech, Daniela Nachazelova. Knapkova was the 2002 World Cup winner and winner of the under-23 world title this year, while Nachazelova won the silver medal in the lightweight category at the under-23 world championships. In the afternoon Rumball, who trains with the Canadian national squad in London, Ontario, enjoyed a second triumph when she won her double sculls heat with her partner Laura Middleton.
Winners of the men's lightweight sculling heats were the Czech Republic's Michal Vabrousek, world champion in 2000, and the unknown German, Markus Harburg. The best race of the morning was in the lightweight coxless fours, in which the six entries were racing to get the best lanes in their final on Saturday. Only three seconds separated the first five, Poland coming through to pip France, with Ukraine, South Africa and Ireland close behind. Britain's sculler Pete Wells of London University, the world under-23 champion, was beaten by the Swiss André Vonarburg in a race for lanes in Saturday's final, the second time that he has lost to the Swiss this year. This put them alongside each other in the final, with the French sculler Frédéric Perrier also claiming a center lane after finishing close to Wells. These three played cat and mouse, well ahead of the rest. On Friday, August 23rd, Britain's eight qualified for the finals finishing first in the repechage, or second chance-round, in a well-measured race. Italy also joined heat winners Canada and Germany in the final by trailing GB across the line by a length. Poland and the Netherlands completed the final line-up, first and second in the other repechage.
Finals
Poland headed the medal table with three gold, one silver and two bronze medals. Canada and the Czech Republic also won three gold medals, with two going to Germany and one each to Hungary and Switzerland. The host country Britain won only one medal, as silver went to Pete Wells in the single sculls. Fifteen countries shared in the medals of the 13 events held over three days at Britain's National Water Sports Center. The Poles triumphed in the men's double sculls, light fours and open men's fours. Canada won the men's eights and the women's fours and double sculls. The Czech Republic won the women's single sculls and the men's and women's lightweight single sculls.
PARTICIPATION
1. AUS - 22 2. AUT - 7 3. CAN - 19 4. CHN - 16 5. CRO - 13 6. CZE - 14 7. EST - 9 8. FRA - 35 9. GBR - 25 10. GER - 25 11. HUN - 16 12. IRL - 14 13. ITA - 17 14. NED - 31 15. NOR - 6 16. NZL - 16 17. POL - 37 18. RSA - 8 19. RUS - 14 20. SUI - 18 21. TPE - 12 22. UKR - 6 TOTAL: 380
RANKING (A-FINALS)
Men's Coxless Pairs
1 Germany 7:06.40; 2 South Africa 7:09.52; 3 Russia 7:12.43; 4 GB (J. Bottomley, David Gilbert) 7:13.88; 5 Australia 7:16.59; 6 Czech Rep. 7:26.38.
Women's Single Sculls
1 M. Knapkova (Czech Rep.) 8:05.71; 2 J. Rumball (Canada) 8;17.28; 3 P. Estens (Australia) 8:23.81; 4 K. Ots (Estonia) 8:26.29; 5 M. Mol (Netherlands) 8:35.47; 6 Y. Belousova (Russia) 8:50.02.
Women's Coxless Fours
1 Canada 7:12.98; 2 Germany 7:14.58; 3 Poland 7:19.32; 4 GB 7:26.21; 5 Australia 7:27.31; 6 Hungary 7:45.19.
Women's Lightweight Single Sculls
1 D. Nachazelova (Czech Rep.) 8:18.23; 2 L. Fluri (Switzerland) 8:21.73; 3 E. Lutz (Germany) 8:27.20; 4 M. Taupe (Austria) 8:29.44; 5 M. ten Buur (Netherlands) 8:40.99; 6 C. Gourdin (France) 8:50.15.
Men's Double Sculls
1 Poland 6:45.51; 2 Germany 6:48.88; 3 Estonia 6:52.03; 4 Switzerland 6:56.85; 5 Italy 7:07.33.
Men's lightweight coxless fours
1 Poland 6:26.00; 2 France 6:29.16; 3 Ukraine 6:30.76; 4 South Africa 6:33.47; 5 Ireland 6:37.92, 6 Netherlands 6:53.00.
Men's Lightweight Double Sculls
1 Hungary 6:57.52; 2 Switzerland 7:01.18; 3 France 7:02.09; 4 Germany 7:02.49; 5 Russia 7:03.34; 6 Poland 7:06.42.
Women's Lightweight Double Sculls
1 Germany 7:43.96; 2 France 7:49.75; 3 Poland 7:58.22; 4 NZ 8:12.68; 5 Norway 8:22.44.
Men's coxless fours
1 Poland 6:17.59; 2 NZ 6:20.24; 3 France 6:28.24; 4 Ireland 6:33.95; 5 Russia 6:37.76; 6 Switzerland 6:38.31.
Men's Single Sculls
1 A. Vonarburg (Switzerland) 7:14.73; 2 P. Wells (GB) 7:16.23; 3 F. Perrier (France) 7:20.65; 4 M. Dzog (Poland) 7:29.72; 5 D. Kucera (Czech Rep.) 7:40.72; 6 G. Grasso (Italy) 7:55.20.
Women's Double Sculls
1 Canada 7:25.32; 2 Poland 7:33.50; 3 Czech Rep 7:38.46; 4 Ireland 7:42.03; 5 GB 7:51.36; 6 Italy 8:09.34.
Men's Lightweight Single Sculls
1 M. Vabrousek (Czech Rep) 7:24.85; 2 M. Hartung (Germany) 7:27.39; 3 R. Delis (Netherlands) 7:29.62; 4 B. Feuerstein (Austria) 7:42.79; 5 N. Latt (Switzerland) 7:45.34; 6 R. Klimczewski (Poland) 7:48.17.
Men's Eights
1 Canada 5:48.54; 2 Netherlands 5:54.32; 3 Germany 5:54.53; 4 Poland 5:57.01; 5 GB 5:58.73; 6 Italy 6:19.15.
