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Fly & Die 500 Metres
This event provided some great fun, and a couple
of exceptional results. All races were conducted on the 8+ setting.
The women’s races resulted in a tie between Kirsten Winkley (Sydney RC) and Prue Warden (Pymble Ladies College), who both scored 1min 22 secs. Warden’s
prognostic of 111.1% was a great result for a junior.
The men’s event was absolutely blitzed by Rob Giblin from the Australian Senior B Eight, in the tremendous time of 1min 10secs (114%) at a staggering 870 watts!!
That’s almost 1.2 horsepower in the language of the man on the street.
Summary and Thanks
All in all, a great regatta. Next year will be bigger and better, but we
still managed to start and finish the world’s first indoor regatta on time. Entries were a little small, especially in the senior ranks, but the quality of the athletes who did front was certainly exceptional, as evidenced by
the prognostic scores.
It’s not often you have a chance to be involved in something which as never been done before, and I want to thank all the athletes for their efforts and endless good humour on the day.
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addition, we would like to thank Terry Maher and Andrew Pierce from the NSWRA—their unswerving support was a reminder of all that is good in the sport of rowing. John Dollisson from Eyecorp kindly loaned 2 data projectors,
which added a new wonderful dimension, allowing the whole crowd the clearly see the efforts of the rowers. We would also like to thank Casper Rekers from the Netherlands (Mr “Care Rowperfect”) who commissioned the magnificent
major trophies and the medallions for the winners, which are actually a near perfect likeness of Frans Goebel, the Dutch lightweight World Champion sculler of 1989 & 1990, the first person to use Rowperfect.
Finally, to our hosts St Ignatius’ College, particularly Charlie Rowe, Alex Rybak, Tony Wilson and Brian Payne – thanks for your generosity and the use of this wonderful facility.
Mark & Gillian Campbell
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