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Rowing At The 2004 Summer Olympics
Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre and featured 550 competitors taking part in 14 events. The medals were split among 22 countries, Romania topping the medal table, their women winning 3 golds, with the traditionally strong Germany, Great Britain and Australia picking up four medals in total. Romania's Elisabeta Lipă won her fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal and fifth overall. Lipă, who was part of Romania's women's eight, won her first in Los Angeles in 1984 followed by gold medals in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004, a record span of 20 years between her first and last gold medal. It was also her eighth overall, which is more than any other rower, having won a silver and a bronze in 1988 and an additional silver in 1992. In winning her medal at age 39, Lipă became the oldest rower to win a gold medal and the oldest athlete in an endurance sport to win a gold medal. Matthew Pinsent also won his fourth consecuti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schinias Olympic Rowing And Canoeing Centre
The Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre (''Ολυμπιακό Κωπηλατοδρόμιο Σχοινιά'') was built to host the rowing and canoe sprint events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece. It is the most northerly venue of the 2004 Games situated to the east of the town of Marathon. It covers 1.24 km² and has a spectator capacity of 14,000. It is a part of Schinias National Park. Although not fully completed until January 31, 2004, it held its first successful competition, the World Rowing Junior Championships, in August 2003. During these championships, many boats became waterlogged due to gale-force winds and the resulting water conditions. Most of the final rounds were raced over a shortened course to avoid worse water in the second half of the 2 km lake. During construction there was controversy over environmental destruction as wetlands were remodelled for its construction. The centre is one of only three FISA-approved training centers in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Coode
Edward Coode, MBE (born 19 June 1975) is a British rower, twice World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist. Early life Born in Cornwall in 1975, Coode boarded at Papplewick School and Eton College. He studied marine biology at University of Newcastle upon Tyne and Keble College, Oxford, and rowed in the Oxford crew at the 1998 Boat Race. Career Coode won his first World Championship in 1999, as a substitute in the British men's coxless four, rowing with Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell. When Tim Foster returned to the four, Coode was put into the coxless pair with Greg Searle. They finished fourth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics having led for most of the race and being overtaken by three crews in the last 600 m, finishing 12/100th of a second (about 2 feet) out of third place. In 2001, he won a second World Championship in the men's coxless four with Steve Williams, Rick Dunn and Toby Garbett. In 2002, he missed the World Championships due to injury, Josh West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Tufte
Olaf Karl Tufte (born 27 April 1976 in Tønsberg) is a Norwegian representative rower, firefighter and farmer. He is a seven time Olympian, and as a single sculler he was twice the Olympic champion and twice the world champion. He's been consistently selected in the Norwegian men's senior national rowing squad since 1996 including his selection as a 2021 Tokyo Olympian where he made his seventh Olympic appearance racing in a quad scull for Norway. Early rowing career Tufte started rowing at aged 17, initially as a means to improve his handle on motor cross. He rows from the Horten Roklubb in Horten, Vestfold on the Oslofjord. He quickly displayed an aptitude for the sport and one year later in 1994, he debuted internationally for Norway rowing a single scull at the 1994 Junior World Rowing Championships. He finished sixth. In 1995 he raced in a Norwegian U23 quad scull which took silver at the Nations Cup in Holland. Representative rowing career Tufte's senior debut for Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Long (rower)
Matthew Long (born 27 June 1975) is an Australian former Olympian rower. He was an Australian national champion, a representative at World Championships and won a bronze medal in the coxless pair at Sydney 2000 Club and state rowing Long attended Newington College and coached by Olympian and Old Newingtonian Michael Morgan. He rowed three times in Newington crews at the New South Wales GPS Head of the River, and twice won the 1st VIII event in 1991 and 1992. Long's senior club rowing was initially from the Sydney Rowing Club and later after his relocation to Victoria, from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. Long was selected at stroke in the New South Wales state representative men's eight to contest the 1998.King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. In 2002 he raced the King's Cup in the Victorian state eight and won that event. International representative rowing Long made his Australian representative debut while still a scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It marked the second time the Summer Olympics were held in Australia, and in the Southern Hemisphere, the first being in Melbourne, in 1956. Sydney was selected as the host city for the 2000 Games in 1993. Teams from 199 countries participated in the 2000 Games, which were the first to feature at least 300 events in its official sports programme. The Games' cost was estimated to be A$6.6 billion. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch before the arrival of his successor Jacques Rogge. The 2000 Games were the last of the two consecutive Summer Olympics to be held in a predominantly English-speaking country fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. These were the fourth Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics to be hosted by the United States, and marked the centennial of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the inaugural edition of the modern Olympic Games. These were also the first Summer Olympics since 1924 to be held in a different year than the Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics, as part of a new International Olympic Committee, IOC practice implemented in 1994 to hold the Summer and Winter Games in alternating, even-numbered years. The 1996 Games were the first of the two consecutive Summer Olympics to be held in a predominantly English-speaking world, English-speaking country preceding the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. These were also the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowing At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's Coxless Pair
Men's coxless pair competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This rowing event was a sweep event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Two rowers crewed each boat, with no coxswain. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking. Semifinals were named based on which finals they fed, with each semifinal having two possible finals. Heats *SF denotes qualification to Semifinal. *R denotes qualification to Repechage. Heat 1 (August 14) #: Drew Ginn, James Tomkins, 6:55.04 -> SF #: Nikola Stojić, Mladen Stegić, 6:58.11 -> SF #: Toby Garbett, Rick Dunn, 6:58.95 -> SF #: Walter Naneder, Marcos Morales, 7:02.29 -> R #: Matija Pavšič, Andrej Hrabar, 7:05.36 -> R Heat 2 (August 14) #: Donovan Cech, Ramon di Clemente, 6:57.06 -> SF #: Siniša Skelin, Nikša Skelin, 7:01.28 -> SF #: Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Ginn
Drew Cameron Ginn OAM (born 20 November 1974) is an Australian five-time world champion rower, a four time Olympian and triple Olympic gold medallist. From 1995 to 1998 he was a member of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome. Club and state rowing Ginn was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne where he took up rowing. His senior club rowing was done from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne. His first state selection for Victoria came in the 1993 youth eight contesting the Noel Wilkinson Trophy in the Interstate Regatta at the Australian Rowing Championships. He rowed again in the Victorian youth eight in 1994, this time to victory in the Interstate Regatta. On twelve occasions between 1995 and 2008 he was selected in the Victorian senior men's eight to contest the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. Eight of those Victorian eights saw King's Cup victories and Ginn stroked three King's Cup eights, two to victory. Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tomkins (rower)
James Bruce Tomkins, (born 19 August 1965) is an Australian rower, seven-time World Champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist. He is Australia's most awarded oarsman, having made appearances at six Olympic games (for three gold and one bronze medal); eleven World Championships (for seven world titles including one in each of the five sweep oar events); four Rowing World Cups (for two titles) and eighteen state representative King's Cup appearances – the Australian blue riband men's VIII event, (for fifteen victories, ten as stroke). Tomkins is one of only five Australian athletes and four rowers worldwide to compete at six Olympics. From 1990 to 1998 he was the stroke of Australia's prominent world class crew – the coxless four known as the Oarsome Foursome. Club and state rowing Tomkins took up rowing at Carey Baptist Grammar School. He stroked the Carey First VIII in both of his senior years, 1982 and 1983. His long senior club career was with the Mercantile Rowing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowing At The 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's Quadruple Sculls
These are the results of the Women's quadruple sculls competition, one of six events for female competitors in Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Quadruple Sculls women Heat 1 - August 15, 09:40 #: Alison Mowbray, Debbie Flood, Frances Houghton and Rebecca Romero 6:15.60 -> Final A #: Oksana Dorodnova, Anna Sergeyeva, Larisa Merk, Yuliya Levina 6:17.72 -> Repechage #: Mariya Vorona, Volha Berazniova, Tatsyana Narelik, Mariya Brel 6:20.72 -> Repechage #: Olena Morozova, Olena Olefirenko, Yana Dementyeva, Tetiana Kolesnikova 6:21.24 -> Repechage Heat 2 - August 15, 09:47 #: Kathrin Boron, Meike Evers, Manuela Lutze, Kerstin El Qalqili 6:16.49 -> Final A #: Michelle Guerette, Hilary Gehman, Kelly Salchow, Danika Holbrook 6:18.63 -> Repechage #: Dana Faletic, Rebecca Sattin, Amber Bradley, Kerry Hore 6:23.46 -> Repechage #: Dorthe Pedersen, Sarah Lauritzen, Christina Rindom, Majbrit Nielsen 6:28.16 -> Repechage Repechage - August 18, 11:00 #: Oksana Dor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathrin Boron
Kathrin Boron (born 4 November 1969 in Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany) is a German sculler, and four-time Olympic gold medallist. She's an athlete of the SV Dynamo / SG Dynamo Potsdam. Boron won the women's double sculls at the 1992 Summer Olympics with Kerstin Köppen and 2000 Summer Olympics with Jana Thieme, and the women's quad sculls at the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. At the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ..., she finished third in the quad sculls. In addition, Boron has won seven World Championship Gold Medals and five Silver, starting with gold in the double sculls at Tasmania in 1990. Boron was honoured for her outstanding career in rowing with the 2009 Thomas Keller Medal. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barney Williams (rower)
Barney Guillermo Williams (born March 13, 1977) is a Canadian rower who won a gold medal at the 2003 world championships in Milan and a silver in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also has two wins and a second in the four in Rowing World Cup events. On April 18, 2021Barney resigned from his position as head coach of the University of Victoria's women's varsity rowing programin mutual agreement with the athletic department. After several reports of demeaning and aggressive behaviour towards student athletes, Rowing Canada ruled he violated their code of conduct as well as the National Coaching Certification Program code of ethics. He was sanctioned with a 12-month ban from all Rowing Canada activities on April 20, 2021. Biographical details Born in the Argentine city of San Martín de los Andes, Williams was educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Victoria and then at Jesus College, University of Oxford where he was President of the Oxford University Boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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