Junior Women's Quadruple Sculls (JW4x) - Final

The Germans had scored the fastest qualifying time from yesterday’s semifinals. They had also won their heat on Thursday. The German’s of Reuss, Borms, Franziska Kampmann and Laura Kampmann got away the quickest and then settled into a very steady 33 stroke rate pace. Great Britain, who also won their semifinal and sat in second and remained there through the middle of the race. The United States sat very much on the pace in third.

This order remained the same as the boats came into the final 500m of the race. Then Anna Thornton in stroke seat of the British quad, caught a boat-stopping crab. The United States were now looking at a silver medal. The British, however, courageously managed to recover and rating 33 into the final 100m, they remained ahead of the United States. The US, at 36, had earned bronze while Germany rowed through at 38 to a very comfortable gold medal. This German crew is one to look out for in the future.

Results: GER, GBR, USA, FRA, SUI, CAN

Laura Kampmann (s) – GER – gold  JW4x
“The start was fantastic, we were directly in front. Then we did some bursts and in the middle of the race, GBR caught a crab so we moved on. We have everything we had in the last 250m.”

Susannah Duncan (b) – GBR silver
“We had a good start. We caught two crabs, one a buoy and one before 1000 metres. The most important is that we have no regrets, we had the best row we could. We are pleased with this result.”

Emily Delleman (2) – USA – bronze
“This medal means a lot. Last year we were in the B-final, so it is a lot of progress. The difference this year is that we had a lot more race experience before coming here.”

B-final

Romania only just missed out on making the A-final in yesterday’s semifinal and after an initial lead by New Zealand, Romania overtook them. But New Zealand held on with these two crews matching each other through the middle of the race. Romania proved to have just that bit more power and crossed the line in first.

Results:  ROU, NZL, RUS, DEN, ARG, JPN