Rowing Day 3 Review: Eight heats highlight Monday’s Rowing
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(BEIJING, August 11) — Four re-scheduled Men’s and Women’s Eights heats opened Rowing events in spectacular style on August 11 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.
In the opening race of the day, the US Women’s Eight crew justified their status as pre-regatta favorites with an emphatic all-the-way win. Making the most of the ideal rowing conditions, the United States advanced directly to Sunday’s final A after opening a one-length lead on Great Britain in the first 500m and holding it for the rest of the race.
They’ll meet defending, three-time consecutive Olympic champions Romania in the gold medal race after the Doina Ignat-stroked crew controlled heat 2 from the start to defeat the Netherlands and Australia.
Two members of the Romanian crew, Ignat and Georgeta Andrunache, can collect their fifth career Olympic gold medals with victory on Sunday. Andrunache also has a realistic chance to add a historic sixth as a confirmed A-finalist in the Women’s Pair with triple gold medalist partner Viorica Susanu.
An upset was delivered in the heats of the Men’s Eight when Great Britain jumped the outstanding race favorite from the United States early in the 2000m journey to a 3.71 second victory. They’ll head straight to Sunday’s final A possibly as the new favorites after posting the fastest time of the heats, 5:25.89.
Not so surprising was that the world champion Canadian Men’s Eight were untroubled in also advancing directly to Sunday’s final A by defeating Poland, Netherlands and an Australian crew that experienced a race-ending rudder breakage at the 500m mark.
Semifinal places were on offer in the four quarterfinals of the Women’s Single Sculls. In the first, Michelle Guerette of the United States fought back from a nine-second heat loss on Saturday to event favorite Ekaterina Karsten of Belarus to claim a semifinal berth. Other winners were Miroslava Knapkova of the Czech Republic, fastest quarterfinalist Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria and Karsten.
Marcel Hacker of Germany produced a remarkable form reversal from a disappointing Saturday heat to take the first race of Men’s Single Sculls. With A/B semifinal places on offer to the first three place-getters in the four quarterfinals, tactical racing was the order of the day. Other winners were favorites Olaf Tufte of Norway, Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic and world champion Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand.
The United States, Croatia and Denmark advanced to the A/B semifinals of the Men’s Pair after staging one of the races of the day, while Germany, Great Britain, the United States and Czech Republic secured berths in the Women’s Double Sculls final A on Saturday.
Russia, Belarus and Bulgaria have booked places in the A/B semifinals of the Men’s Double Sculls after their repechage, as have the Czech Republic, France and Belarus in the Men’s Four.
The E/F semifinals of the Men’s Single Sculls completed the day’s racing.
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