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Umpiring the Olympic Regatta

August 5, 2012 by Rebecca Caroe

Never an easy job but you know it’s been a great race when you are unaware of the umpire following behind and keeping an eye on proceedings.

Three times during this regatta there were potential conflict-inducing incidents and each time an umpire had to make a decision.

Read what happened below and let us know what you think.

New Zealand Womens Quad break a scull. They’d just got into qualifying position for the final and caught a crab causing a scull to break. Race goes on without them and they paddle over the line last with only three people rowing.
Great Britain Mens Pair steer out of their lane. during the final few strokes the pair drift towards bow side [pulled round by stroke in final sprint?]. The adjacent crew is New Zealand who are lengths in front and unaffected plus their hull mercifully stays just the right side of the buoys until they are over the finish line.
Great Britain Lightweight Mens Double Scull have equipment failure just after the start. They stop and bow man Zac Purchase appeals and the umpire stops the race, bringing all the crews back to a re-start.

Were Umpiring Decisions Correct?

Social media has provided us with some insight from the crowd. What do you think?

A twitter opinion of the LM2x restart decision

: David Biddulph explains his dilemma on Facebook

Filed Under: Olympics, Racing Tagged With: Britain, Great Britain, New Zealand, olympic games, rowing

World Championships medal table

August 31, 2009 by Rebecca Caroe

And to round up the end of this year's Worlds here is the self-compiled medal table. Any mistakes- please let us know. Source FISA

Medal table

Germany Gold = 4 Silver = 1 Bronze = 4

New Zealand Gold = 4 Bronze = 1

Great Britain Gold = 3 Silver = 5

USA Gold = 3 Silver = 3 Bronze = 1

Ukraine Gold = 3 Silver = 1

Poland Gold = 2 Silver = 1

Italy Gold = 2 Silver = 2 Bronze = 1

Netherlands Gold = 1 Bronze = 3

Belarus Gold = 1 Bronze = 1

Switzerland Gold = 1

Hong Kong Gold = 1

Greece Gold = 1 Silver = 1 Bronze = 1

France Silver = 3

Australia Silver = 2 Bronze = 1

Romania Silver = 2

Denmark Silver = 1 Bronze = 3

Czech Republic Silver = 1 Bronze = 2

Canada Silver = 1 Bronze = 1

Brazil Silver = 1

Estonia Bronze = 1

Slovakia Bronze = 1

Bulgaria Bronze = 1

Serbia Bronze = 1

[You're not going to believe how long this took to compile!] Enjoy.

Filed Under: World Rowing Championships Tagged With: Germany, Great Britain, Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, United States, World Rowing Championships

Some surprising results on the last day of the worlds. Old names fail to make the grade and new ones come storming through. Thanks to the Rowing Voice Mystic Worlds comptition it's clear that those who do well in the early rounds don't always dominate the finals!

All the results in an easy-to read format (so much better than FISA's site)

Breaking their 3-year gold medal drought, Germany wins the LM4- and we are delighted. They were robbed in Beijing by illness and on re-forming now clearly have a world-beating combination.

A classic quote from Coach Mike Spraklen about Canada's silver medal in the eight. "It was nice to get a silver medal in the eight,"

New Zealand topped the medals table with four golds and a bronze showing they are ramping up to hosting next year's Worlds at Lake Karapiro.

USA winning the W8+ for the 4th year in a row is fantastic especially as two of them already won gold in W2- the day before. The M2+ (Gold) and silvers to W4x and LM8+.

Great Britain finished off a satisfactory worlds with a photo finish for LW2x in which their new combination lost out to the host nation, Poland. The BBC is already leading speculation about who will return to the GB team for the rest of the cycle. It seems Thompson, Grobler and Williams will have their work cuto out to translate silver medals into golds. And A nice article about the GBR LW4x silver medal.

Row2k sums up the whole week with a lovely time-lapse photography video of the boat park called "Worlds Saturday in 3 minutes ".

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Filed Under: Racing, World Rowing Championships Tagged With: Great Britain, Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, United States, World Rowing Championships

Umpiring the Olympic Regatta

Were Umpiring Decisions Correct?

World Championships medal table

Medal table

World Championships day 8