Three U.S. crews – the junior men’s eight, junior women’s eight and junior women’s pair – advanced to Saturday’s finals on the second day of racing at the 2002 FISA Junior World Championships in Trakai, Lithuania.
After just missing an automatic berth into the finals during yesterday’s heat, the junior men’s eight of T.J. Massey (Quincy, Fla.), Chris Johnson (Ashby, Mass.), Mike Gottlieb (Falls Church, Va.), Alex Hearne (Princeton, N.J.), Adam Kosmicki (Marblehead, Mass.), Chris Richbourg (Woodbridge, Va.), Gary Champagne (Tiburon, Calif.), Kevin White (Cherry Hill, N.J.), and Mike Collins (Gladwyne, Pa.) came back to win Thursday’s repechage, or second-chance race, to advance to the final. In the second of two repechages, the U.S. crew clocked a 5:54.3 to finish 1.4 seconds ahead of Spain. Italy won the other repechage in a time of 5:51.2, with Germany finishing second in a 5:52.7. The four crews join Romania and the Czech Republic in the final.
In the junior women’s eight, the U.S. crew of Kate Gorman (Newton, Mass.), Rachel Jeffers (Los Gatos, Calif.), Stesha Carle (Long Beach, Calif.), Ashley Jones (Alexandria, Va.), Kate Davison (Bedford, N.H.), Alexis Peterson (Williamsville, N.Y.), Alison Crocker (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Katie Verhey (Chicago, Ill.), and Carla Bezold (Alexandria, Va.) finished second in its repechage behind the crew from Belarus. The U.S. boat clocked a 6:41.4 to finish 6.3 seconds behind Belarus, qualifying for Saturday’s final. In the other repechage, Germany and the Czech Republic qualified for the final. The four crews join heat winners Romania and Russia in Saturday’s race for the medals.
The junior women’s pair of Kim Bailey (Bethesda, Md.) and Sarah Bowman (Goshen, Ind./Brookline, Mass.) finished fourth in its repechage and advanced to the finals. The crew clocked a 7:51.71 to finish 0.36 seconds behind the third-place crew from China. Germany won the repechage in a 7:43.10, while Belarus finished second in a 7:47.30. The top four crews from the repechage joined heat winners Romania and Australia in Saturday’s final.
In the first repechage of the junior men’s four with coxswain, Chad Taylor (New Milford, Conn.), Brian Freund (Linwood, N.J.), Ben Niles (Groton, Mass.), Morgan Henderson (Kensington, Md.), and Nick Henderson (Kensington, Md.) finished third, just missing a spot in the final. The crew clocked a 6:43.31 to finish five seconds behind Germany, which earned the second and last qualifying spot for the final. Australia won the first repechage in a time of 6:35.8. Italy and France took the top two spots in the other repechage, joining Australia, Germany, and the heat winners from Poland and Romania in the final. The U.S. boat will now race in the “B” final, which determines places 7-12.
In the junior women’s four, Liz Pallas-Jacobs (San Diego, Calif.), Megan Keyes (Seattle, Wash.), Betsy McCormick (Seattle, Wash.), and Anna Sjogren (Winchester, Mass.) finished third, failing to make the final. The crew led at the 500-meter mark but could not hold off strong crews from Great Britain and France. The U.S. boat, which will now race in the “B” final for places 7-12, stroked a 7:17.26 to finish almost nine seconds behind the second-place crew from France. Great Britain won the repechage in a time of 7:04.33.
In the junior men’s four, Greg McKallagat (Andover, Mass.), Matt King (Piedmont, Calif.), Justin Stangel (Madison, Wis.), and Will Lippit (Seattle, Wash.) also finished third in their repechage. Like the junior men’s four with coxswain and the junior women’s four, the junior men’s four just missed advancing to the final. The crew clocked a 6:29.27 to finish 7.42 seconds behind Slovenia. Great Britain won the repechage in a 6:20.80. The U.S. boat will now race in the “B” final for places 7-12.
In the junior women’s single sculls, Abby Loughrey (Pittsburgh, Pa.) finished third in her repechage and will now race in a “C/D” semifinal for the right to compete in the “C” final, which determines places 13-18, or the “D” final, which determines places 19-24. Loughrey clocked an 8:30.9 to finish 5.9 seconds behind Japan’s Kyoko Aoyama, who placed second in the race and claimed the last qualifying spot in the top-level semifinals.
After finishing fifth in its repechage, the junior men’s double of Matt Morrow (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Craig Kilgo (Tallahassee, Fla.) also will race in a “C/D” semifinal. In the repechage, the duo clocked a 7:34.1, finishing more than 25 seconds in back of the fourth-place crew.
In the junior women’s double sculls, Stacey Bowen (Broomall, Pa.) and Laura Hill (Malvern, Pa.) finished fifth in their repechage and will now race in the “C” final for places 13-18. The crew clocked an 8:18.3 to finish nearly 23 seconds behind the fourth-place crew from Yugoslavia.
In the junior men’s single sculls, Peter Lynch (Dallas, Tex.) finished third in his repechage and will now race in a “D/E” semifinal for the right to compete in the “D” final, which determines places 19-24, or the “E” final, which determines places 25-30. Lynch clocked an 8:00.4 to finish 5.7 seconds behind the second-place Latvian sculler.
Racing continues Friday with semifinals and concludes on Saturday with the finals.