The vagaries of a random advancement draw came to roost a bit this morning in the men's single, in which the two heat-winning heavyweight scullers ended up in one semi (Wyatt Allen and Mike Perry), and the two top "lightweight" scullers in the other (Steve Tucker and Gabe Winkler). Not that it necessarily will matter; the scullers who were fastest back in May, Wyatt and Steve, took top honors today in July as well, and you get the sense that the "right" sculler will win this weekend.
Whether or not they'll meet the time standard is another question altogether; in dead flat, windless conditions at 7am, it looked like Wyatt Allen was thinking time standard as he crossed 500 to go, but as he neared the finish line, when the 6:54 standard ticked past Wyatt abruptly dropped down to a paddle for the final 4-5 strokes of the race. By the last of the five races of the morning, a puff of a cross-headwind had set up, and still no one has beaten the standards in any of the events this week. This may be an ongoing problem; conditions for tomorrow morning are predicted to be a direct headwind, while it looks like a cross for Sunday morning's second final. The wind then comes around to a cross-tail, but that might be a bit late for some of these crews. If the winning crew fails to meet the standard, they will have another opportunity to do so on July 20.
Jamie Schroeder seemed to find some speed this morning; after placing third in his heat, and second in the rep, he qualified for the final behind Tucker while beating some of the people who had sent him to the reps yesterday morning. That's a lot of horsepower to reckon with; if he finds himself in this boat, he could be a formidable sculler.
The light men's single rep resulted in a FinishLynx moment (as opposed to a Kodak moment), when the top three scullers crossed the line within a foot of one another in the two-to-advance race. The critical margin between second and third – the qualifying cutoff – came down to 0.0066 seconds – that's just over six one-thousandths of a second, a margin likely possible only in this age of high speed cameras and high resolution displays. Alex Zosuls won the race, and Ben Hutz was on the right side of that quarter of a bowball, while Brian Tryon was on the downside.
The light women's semis were quite spread out, although Marika Page has been making a bid for frontrunner status the past two days.
See also today's row2k gallery from the racecourse.
Results:
#12 Men's Single Semi 1 (07:10:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 New York Athletic Club (W. Allen) 3 07:13.635
2 Ann Arbor Rowing Club (M. Perry) 4 07:21.053
3 Harvard University Boat Club (A. Holland) 2 07:27.694
4 Penn A.C. Rowing Association (T. Waddle) 5 07:33.294
#13 Men's Single Semi 2 (07:20:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Union Boat Club (S. Tucker ) 3 07:14.433
2 Princeton Training Center (J. Schroeder) 5 07:17.134
3 Providence Training Center (E. Winters ) 4 07:21.234
4 New York Athletic Club (G. Winkler) 2 07:24.569
#14 Men's Lightweight Single Rep 1 (07:30:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Union Boat Club (A. Zosuls) 5 07:25.150
2 Narragansett Boat Club (B. Hutz) 4 07:25.512
3 Ann Arbor Rowing Club (B. Tryon) 3 07:25.518
4 Undine Barge Club (D. Urevick-Ackelsb) 2 07:30.570
#16 Women's Lightweight Single Semi 1 (07:40:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Riverside Boat Club (M. Page) 4 08:01.752
2 Penn A.C. Rowing Association (M. Picone) 3 08:12.162
3 Union Boat Club (C. Infantino ) 5 08:18.834
4 Oak Ridge Rowing Association (E. Burton) 2 08:21.209
#17 Women's Lightweight Single Semi 2 (07:50:00)
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Pocock Elite Sculling Team (S. Twardowski ) 3 08:14.338
2 Union Boat Club (C. Wagner ) 4 08:17.028
3 Unaffiliated (A. Scott) 2 08:21.197
4 Penn A.C. Rowing Association (L. Krawczyk) 5 08:41.635
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