The only American in action on Wednesday at the World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands was Colin Ethridge in the lightweight men’s single sculls. Ethridge is competing in the class with the largest number of entrants, 25, and thus that event needs an extra round and had quarterfinals on Wednesday while the rest of the classes were off. Ethridge was second in his heat, just over two seconds behind Ireland, and advanced to the semifinals as one of the top three from his heat.

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Ethridge will have to go again on Thursday in the semifinals where a top half finish will advance him to the final A. He’s not the only American going on Thursday as Yohann Rigogne, Thomas Peszek, and Louis Lombardi Jr compete in the men’s coxed pair semifinals, Mary Jones competes in the lightweight women’s single sculls semifinals, and Andrew Weiland and Peter Gibson compete in the lightweight men’s pair semifinals. All of them need to finish in the top half of their semifinals as well to advance to their respective finals.

Coverage:

The World Rowing website has a liveblog going on and will have updated results on their schedule page after the races have happened. Starting tomorrow their will be live video somewhere… I’m not sure if this is on their YouTube channel, on the main World Rowing website, or on this Eurovision.tv site. To get a certain answer of where the video stream is follow their twitter feed and I’m sure they will promote it.

Previous World Rowing Championships Coverage:
Tuesday Update