The US women’s four team had another successful World Rowing Championships placing second, five seconds behind the winning British team, on Friday in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Kristine O’Brien had been part of the gold medal winning team last summer in this event and was joined by Molly Bruggeman, Emily Huelskamp, and Corinne Schoeller this summer. The US was actually a split second ahead going into the second km before the British boat really pulled ahead.
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That would be the only medal for the US in Rotterdam, though several other boats did reach the finals. Mary Jones in the lightweight women’s single sculls finished fourth, missing out on a medal by less than a second. Yohann Rigogne, Thomas Peszek, and Louis Lombardi Jr in the men’s coxed pair finished fifth, five and a half seconds behind third. The lightweight women’s quadruple sculls team of Ashley Amos, Monica Whitehouse, Morgan McGovern, and Emily Schmieg was one of only five boats in the competition. There had been only an exhibition race in Rotterdam for them until the final on Friday where they finish fifth, five seconds behind third. The final US boat in the final A was the lightweight men’s pair team of Andrew Weiland and Peter Gibson. They finished sixth in that event.
The W4- takes silver plus record-setting day for the juniors in Rotterdam! https://t.co/0Kmc5WzKkk #wrch2015 pic.twitter.com/3jkxbLjNPX
— USRowing (@usrowing) August 27, 2016
Colin Ethridge in the lightweight men’s single sculls was knocked into the final B on Thursday when he finished fifth in his semifinal. Ethridge went on to finish fourth in final B, tenth overall. The other Americans in a final B were Tobin McGee, Christopher Lambert-Rogers, Peter Schmidt, and Jacob Georgeson in the lightweight men’s quadruple sculls. They had been eliminated in the repechage round and finished fifth in final B, 11th overall.
Silver! Congrats to @mobruggie and her @usrowing boat mates W4- #Rotterdam2016 pic.twitter.com/D4JOmMl4xX
— Notre Dame Rowing (@NDRowing) August 27, 2016
This is the end of the biggest FISA events of 2016 for the rowers. The World Rowing Cup will have the first of three events in Belgrade, Serbia next summer May 5th-7th while next year’s World Championships will be in Sarasota, Florida from September 24th-October 1st.
Previous World Rowing Championships Coverage:
Tuesday Update
Wednesday Update
