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Our Olympians made us proud
The team of Mosman athletes did a great job on the biggest sporting stage there is, and while unfortunately there was no silverware, although a world record is probably worth a mention, all the team represented both Mosman and Australia well.
Super Coach Nick, Zoe and Amy from the Aussie women's Quad, Dan from the men's quad and Tom from the men's eight and Pete in the single, are deserving of the great respect those at the Mosman Rowing Club have ...
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Mosman’s Olympians in Action
Over the last few days there has been some very quick racing in the early rounds of the Beijing Olympic Rowing Championships. As the fields all try to squeeze into the 6 lane finals, this will lead to some fantastic racing over the next few days.
Already going as quick as anyone has gone before is Mosman's own Dan Noonan, who stroked the mens quad to a new World Record in the first heat of the men's quad. ...
Olivia Heath back from World Juniors
Another of Mosman's shining young stars has just returned from Austria. Olivia Heath was competing for Australia in the Junior World Championships. She stroked the coxless four which came fifth in the A final against very formidable competition. It was a great result for her first try at international competition. Well done Olivia!...
Henley Cocktail Night
As you may already know Cadeyrn and I are going to represent Macquarie University at the Henley Royal Regatta from 2-6th July this year. This crew will actually be the first Australian crew ever to race the Prince Albert Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta as well as the first Macquarie rowing team to tour internationally.
In mid-2006 the Macquarie rowing shed was burned to the ground by arsonists (Cadeyrn and I are having a much ...
Hardcastle beats Drysdale (NZ) in 500m USA Challenge
UPDATE: NSWRA has done an Article on Pete, full article available here:
NSW and Australian representative Peter Hardcastle (Mosman RC) has capped off an amazing international racing season after beating World Champion Mahe Drysdale in the 500m Sprint at the USA World Rowing Challenge: Floodlit Night Regatta on the weekend. In an incredibly close finish that saw the top four athletes finish within a second, Pete piped them all to take the line-honours in a time of 1:35.379. What ...
World Masters Championships
As the selfappointed Social and Cultural attache of F troupe I apologize for the lateness of my tour report. Our campaign started at Lake Bled where we trained for 4 days. On the final evening we attended a civic reception with oompah bands and free beer to celebrate Slovenias world champions and the announcement of their 2011 world titles.Luke and all mosman elites, this is something to aim for as this is the most beautiful place.
We arrived in Zargreb and ...
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Note from Amy
Hi everyone!!!
Just wanted to say thanks on behalf of all of us for all the support, it means so much. It was an amazing experience to say the least, and personally I struggled to keep positive through the toughest parts of it.
But knowing that we had the whole MRC team behind us was a huge spirit booster for me, so thank you all!!
Zoe and I are in Myrtle Beach at the moment visiting my family - about to head out ...
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World Champs - Day 8
Crunch day for the Aussies. It was cool but with no wind, so conditions were totally fair. Olympic qualifying beckoned, so even the B Finals were very competitive.
Forget about the race-by-race, here's the Mosman news: Amy did it!!! I must confess that I thought, based on their form in this regatta, that winning the B final was beyond them but they won comprehensively over Romania. Amy was over the moon - she told me afterwards that the winning change came ...
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Note from Zoe
Hi All!
Well... just wanted to start by saying thank you to everyone for your support over not only the past week but the past 12 months. You have all been absolutely fantastic and I don't think I would've made it over here without any of you! I have had a pretty awesome week. Although I didn't qaulify the boat for Beijing, I have learnt much that can't be bought or told. It's something that I needed to learn by competing ...
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World Champs - Day 7
The weather was as for yesterday: cool, with a slight cross-tail breeze. A curate's egg of a day - triumph but also bitter disappointments. There was plenty to race for even in the B Finals with Beijing qualifications hanging on the results, so the racing was intense.
First though, news about the Mosman girls. We took Zoe out for dinner last night, and Alfie and Amy twere there too. While Zoe is understandably upbeat (the Serbian girl she beat to win ...
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World Champs - Day 6
The weather was cool, with a slight cross-tail breeze. Mixed, even disappointing, results for the Aussies with only two out of six crews qualifying for A Finals...but first: Zoe sculled really well to convincingly win the C Final (13th out of 29 scullers) and beat the Serbian girl who beat her in the heat. This was a great effort by Zoe, and she looks even better when we see the Swedish sculler (who beat her by only 3 seconds in ...
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World Champs - Day 5
The weather was cool, with a slight cross-head breeze that favoured Lane 6 over Lane 1. Mixed results for the Aussies...
W1X: Belarus, Bulgaria and China are the medal prospects here. Karsten beat Neykova in race two, but the Chinese sculler was impressive in sculling through the Czech and American girls to win the first semi-final.
M1X: Peter didn't expect to get a top three finish here, especially from Lane 1, but he did account for the Swiss sculler on the other ...
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World Champs - Day 4
The weather was cool with light but steady rain for today's races, and a very slight whisper of a head wind. Zoe made no mistake in her semi-final for the C/D finals, and had over six seconds lead at the 1000M.
She went on to win very comfortably in 8:06 flat. The other semi-final winner though, did 8:00 so it is between them for the C Final win. The selectors say this has been a very good effort for her first ...
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Pete on the RA website
Here is the Interview with pete from the Rowing Australia website:
Peter Hardcastle has taken another step to his goal of qualifying the single scull for the Beijing Olympics with a strong performance in the quarterfinal
He spoke to RA after his warm down.
RA: Peter, there was a pump of the fist as you crossed the line, was that from satisfaction or relief?
PH: A bit of both really. Words can’t really explain how satisfying it is when you achieve a ...
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World Champs - Day 3
It was the day-of-truth for a lot of athletes today - forward to semi-finals A/B or purgatory. Rain overnight and the weather was cooler with a slight cross-head wind, though not enough to be unfair. Time comparisons between events were therefore pretty meaningless.
Zoe was in good spirits this morning, and determined not to die wondering but she'd had no help from the Rowing Gods, drawing the Bulgarian world record holder Neykova, the Russian A finalist from last year, and Sweden's ...
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Pete into the top 12
Pete Hardcastle, just rowed what Nick referred to as "the race of his career"!
Just a few weeks ago he was on holiday until he got the call to represent Australia in the single scull -- now he has placed himself in the top 12.
In the heats Cyprus had the fastest finish out of the entire field of 32, the opponent you don't want to be chasing...At 1.62 seconds behind at the 1000m, Pete put it all in and rowed down ...
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World Champs - Day 2
Another perfect day for racing, totally calm and warm. Great results for the Aussies except in the women's quad, and several crews have emerged as medal prospects, even gold. I sat with the Aussie selectors, David Yates and Charlie Bartlett, and it was interesting to hear their insights into each of the crews. So here goes:
LM2-: Australia and Italy are the clear favorites after winning their heats in style in almost identical times. They were untroubled by any ...
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World Champs - Day 1
Great results for the Mosman rowers in the heats today, as both Zoe and Peter went through safely to the quarter-finals. The other Australian crews performed as expected except for the women's HW 2X (the world champions though this is a completely different crew). The stand-out performance of the day, and the biggest surprise, was the men's HW 4-, who came second in their heat and are a chance not only to qualify the boat for Beijing (they must finish ...
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Pete’s Marlow Victory
Having a great start to his international season, it looks like Pete Hardcastle won his race quite easily at the Marlow 2007 Regatta.
Results: here
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Karapiro, New Zealand 2007
Last weekend (27 and 28 January) a team organised by SRC competed at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand accompianied by Mosman Rowing Club's very own Luke Freeman and Newcastle's Hugh McLeod. The crews performed extremely well, every crew gaining a place in their final. MRC Representation was in the following events
Men’s Senior Four: 3rd Place
Simon Nola (lwt)
Jeremy Anderson (lwt)
Luke Woods (lwt)
Luke Freeman (lwt, MRC)
Men’s U21 Four: 2nd Place
Luke Woods (lwt)
Dom Grimm
Phil Matthews
Luke Freeman (lwt, MRC)
Men’s Club Double: 3rd ...
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NSW brings down the house!
Congratulations to Mosman rowers Alistair Matthews, Alicia Bohem, Ali Williams and Luke Freeman for their efforts in the Youth Olympics There is a great article in on the AOC website as follows:
In a day dominated by Great Britain, New South Wales saved their best for last by winning gold in the men’s eight, the final event of the 2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival rowing competition.
Read on...
Full NSW Squad Results:
Women's Single Scull
Chloe ...
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Three Times a Champion - Jane Igoe
Mosman Daily: Three times a champion JULIA Veness-Collins is fast becoming one of Australia's top adaptive rowers after snatching the title of female national champion for the past three years.
The 21-year-old of Mosman - who is on Mosman's Sporting Wall of Fame - recently returned from representing Australia at the 2006 World Rowing Championships in Eton in the UK.
Veness-Collins is now no stranger to the national and international sports stage - this was the second time ...
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World Championship Success
Hi All,
Australia had great success at the World Rowing Championships below are the results.
Gold
W4- (Robyn SelbySmith,Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley, Kate Hornsey)
M2- (Drew Ginn and Duncan Free)
W2x (Liz Kell and Brooke Pratley)
AM1x (Dominic Monypenny)
Silver
LW2x (Marguerite Houston and Amber Halliday)
Bronze
W4x (Catriona Sens, Sonia Mills, Dana Faletic and Sally Kehoe)
W8+ (Robyn Selby Smith, Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley, Sarah Cook, Kim Crow, Sarah Heard, Emily Martin, Kate Hornsey and ...
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Aussie crews reach rowing finals
Great article from The Age
Australians Drew Ginn and Duncan Free overcame a mishap near the finish line to claim a spot in the final of the men's coxless pair at the World Rowing Championships....
Ginn and Free won their semifinal in 6min 22.87sec, one second faster than second-placed Great Britain, to go through to Saturday's medal decider at Eton...
Chris Morgan and Craig Jones will race off for 13th to 18th in Friday's `C' final ...
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Eton World Championships Report 1
Hi All,
Nick has sent a report from the FISA World Rowing Championships in Eton.
The report can be found at mosmanrowing.com/news/eton-report.
Photos are in the Gallery.
And the entire 2006 European Tour can be found here.
Cheers,
Luke
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US Masters - over and out
Currently in London on route to Mumbai. Getting through security here is harder than winning a medal in the US Masters!
The final day of the US Masters was the best weather on tour and the racing started with John Dollisson and Mark Williams competing against each other in two E4x's with composite crews. After a false start John's crew won Gold and marks Silver well ahead of the rest of the field....
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Day 3 - US Masters Rowing Seattle
Started well in the D4- but over rated, led till the 850 metre mark and passed by a better Kent Mitchell Rowing Club crew (privately owned with sponsored rowers, all ex-nationals) to take silver.
In the D4x started very well and led by 1 length at the 300 metre mark when we hit a buoy (booee) (unfortunately course buoys are 12 inches high), Campbell's blade broke around pin (send to Croker) and that was the end of the ...
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Report From Seattle, USA, US masters Rowing
After day 1 of rowing we have made our way to the final of the D4- and D4x and have heats in the C4x and D4+ today for the finals on Saturday and Sunday.
Annie Taylor won a bronze in the WE2x yesterday.
Weather is great, not to hot and a little rain yesterday as you would expect from Seattle.
We are camped at the University of Washington in dormitories with great facilities. They have an $18 million boat shed and football training ...
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Pain and penury - the rower’s life
An article from Tuesdays SMH
Big Tom in the M8+ and a great point about RA funding.
Early start ... Australian rowers take an early morning training
session.
Photo: Tim Clayton
Jessica Halloran
August 1, 2006
THE members of the Australian men's Olympic rowing squad have been training their hearts out while shacked up in cabins for the past week.
The men's eight, who are expected ...
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Training turns into rescue
Report From the Manly Daily - 02 Aug 06
CRAIG Jones was eating breakfast at the Mosman Rowing Club's boathouse at The Spit when he heard a faint cry for help.
He had been training with other members of the Australian rowing team on Monday morning when he spotted 75-year-old Brian O'Donohoe struggling in the water.
Grabbing the team's head coach, Nick ...
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Jaxon Rudduck makes National Team
Dear all,
Great news!
Jaxon Rudduck has just been named in the Australian Rowing Team to compete in the coxless four in the World championships at Eton in August.
This is Jaxon's first national team (of many to come), and comes just 7 months after coming down to Mosman after returning from the US.
I'm sure Jaxon joins me in a heartfelt thankyou to everyone who helped make it happen, with fantastic support in many, many ways especially boats and oars and encouragement.
Now ...
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Henley Finished
Hi,
Sorry haven't updated, no internet access (I am in a apple store using a display computer).
Tom and I are in london, enjoying ourselves.
In the final we came second to Kings. Being the lighter crew with the lighter boat, they got out in front at the start like we expected but as can be expected with match racing we kept coming up to only half/quarter of a length and they just matched our every move after the start.
Hope all ...
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Henley Begins
Well,
The first day of the regatta began today. It is a great experience down at the course with all the people, the stewards enclosure is great (hot in a suit). Several people have said that this is the most people they have seen down watching on a Wednesday (more of a friday crowd).
Went to oxford yesterday, it is an amazing city! How much history can one place have!
Got a heap of photos with the boys (all wearing massive sunglasses). It ...
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Henley II
Hi All,
It is okay, I am still alive!
Have not had the chance to get to an Internet Cafe yet as things have been quite busy and tiring.
Things are going great over here, we raced at a typical English local (with the addition of international crews due to henley) regatta, Reading Regatta. It was a great atmosphere, terrible two lane course, and when we won we got these great pewter beer mugs.
The draw came out yesterday for the Fawley Challenge Cup. ...
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Arrived at Henley
Well, we arrived yesterday after a very long, uncomfortable trip (30hrs airport to airport).
Got the boat and started rowing yesterday afternoon, painted the blades today, rowed twice today... after sleeping about 11 hours (was asleep before my head hit the pillow).
Keep forgetting that we are in England, just a little warmer than home, 7 digit number plates, short stretch of water, houses crammed together and pommy accents which give me a shock.
The place we are staying (Fawley Court - Polish ...
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Poznan Report
Hi all,
Well so far Poznan has lived up to the 3 main memories I have since last here in 1995
1 Sickness- in 1995 many people got really ill with food poisoning- ditto 2006- yesterday 7 French crews withdrew and went home with severe food poisoning
2. In 1995 one of the Teams had their Mercedes bus stolen from outside their accommodation as they were inside checking in - yesterday it was the Kiwis turn. Their team truck with riggers, spares, boat ...
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Varese Departure Report
Dear all,
Had a rough trot since last week, with sickness knocking the squad, and the team around bigtime.
The weather finally came good, with the lake assuming it's usual mirror-like surface, however it coincided with the rowers packing up Diahorrea, vomting, and subsequent weight loss, as well as quite bad colds have upset training no end. Most of this week we have had just 2 of the 6 in the sculling squad well, and poor old Peter ...
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Varese Report
Having settled in to the Hotel Continental we had a couple of days getting over stomach upsets post -Munich, and so rowed just the quad, while David Crawshay and Dan Noonan recovered. James Gatti was not 100% either, so we kept the intensity out of the training.
From memory we had good water on Tuesday last, but since then the wind that has bedevilled most of Southern Europe has been with us, producing white-capped surf on the normally glass-like lake forcing ...
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Munich World Cup
The double of Craig Jones and Chris Morgan settled into their brand new Filippi very quickly, in a contrast with the quad, who had some difficulties adapting to their new Filippi - a different hull shape from the Mosman K45 Empacher that they trained in prior to leaving Australia. However I was confident that with 3 or 4 days in it and a few height and pitch adjustments, they would adapt. Unfortunately however we only had 4 days after arriving ...
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