Tough competition for our Masters at Hamilton

PHOTO; SANDRA PREBBLE, DUNCAN CAMERON AND JANE MCQUILKEN GO OVER PROGRAMME.

PHOTO;ANN WOOLLIAMS

On 24th April, nine Masters competed in the Bank Link NZ Legion Masters and Corporate Rowing Regatta on Lake Rotoroa in Hamilton. The ladies returned the best results for the day with Jane McQuilken and Sandra Prebble getting a 2nd for Women’s D grade Double Sculls. Jane McQuilken, Sandra Prebble, Karen Morreau and Karen Clark came 2nd in Women’s Masters D grade Coxless Quad. Both events were exciting spectacles with Jane and Sandra leading the  field for most of the doubles race and being ‘pipped’ on the line. The quad race was particularly satisfying for the team, as it was the 2^ND regatta that Karen Clark had competed in and to be placed 2^ND  in the field was a real achievement.

In the men’s events, the competition was tough with New Zealand’s Olympic champion Eric Verdonk racing against the less experienced rowers from the Rotorua club. In the singles, Tom Clark was placed 9th in Men’s D grade Single Sculls and Rob Prebble was 5th in Men’s E & F grade Single Sculls. The best result for the men was the combination of Tom Clark and Rob Prebble in Men’s Masters E grade Double Sculls ; 4th in a field of 9. Steve Donn and Greg Hunt achieved a commendable 6th in Men’s D grade Double Sculls and Tom Clark, Gordon Meyer, Steve Donn and Greg Hunt also achieved a 6th in Men’s E grade Coxless Quads.

Overall the regatta was a success for the Rotorua club and it was a real buzz for the team to see our ladies doing so well. BY ROBERT PREBBLE

RESULTS

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Men's Masters D-H Single Scull Division 1

9^TH  Tom Clark (D)

Men's Masters D-H Single Scull Division 3

5^TH   Rob Prebble (E)

Women's Masters D-H Double Scull Division 2

2^ND   Mcquilken,Prebble (E)

Men's Masters D-I Double Scull Division 2

6^TH  Hunt,Donn (D)

Men's Masters D-I Double Scull Division 3

4^TH  Prebble,Clark (E)

Women's Masters D-H Coxless Quad Scull Division 2

2^ND  Clark,Morreau,Prebble,Mcquilken (E)

Men's Masters D-H Coxless Quad Scull Division 2

6^TH  Cameron,Hunt,Meyer,Donn (E)

Mixed Masters Double Scull Division 4

7^TH  Donn,Mcquilken (D)

Mixed Masters Coxless Quad Scull Division 4

there was a mix up in the results …we think … à

4^TH or 5^TH  Clark,Prebble,Prebble,Clark (E)

7^TH    McQuilken, Meyer, Morreau and Hunt.

 

AGE GROUPS FOR MASTERS EVENTS

A ;Minimum age 27 years or more        

B; Average age 36 years or more

C; Average age 43 years or more

D ;Average age 50 years or more

E; Average age 55 years or more

F ;Average age 60 years or more

G; Average age 65 years or more

H ;Average age 70 years or more

I ;Average age 75 years or more

J ;Average age 80 years or more

 

PHOTO; 2.3.09 ROB WADDELL DAWN TRAINING BEFORE TRIAL AGAINST MAHE DRYSDALE FOR NZ SINGLE SCULLER POSITION FOR 2009 SEASON WORLD CHAMPS. Photo by Ann Woolliams

VO₂ max

VO₂max is measured in ml/kg/min; millilitres per kilogram a minute. It's simple technical description is:

"the maximum amount of oxygen you can take in and make use of "

The operative words here are, "make use of".  At some point before we hit our VO₂max we come across the lactic threshold.  The lactic threshold is effectively the boundary point that stops us making use of our full VO₂max. 

 Measuring VO₂ max

Accurately measuring VO₂ max involves a physical effort sufficient in duration and intensity to fully tax the aerobic energy system. In general clinical and athletic testing, this usually involves a graded exercise test (either on a treadmill or on a cycle ergometer) in which exercise intensity is progressively increased while measuring ventilation and oxygen and carbon dioxide concentration of the inhaled and exhaled air. VO₂ max is reached when oxygen consumption remains at steady state despite an increase in workload.

 

VO₂ max levels

World class male athletes, cyclists and cross-country skiers typically exceed 75 ml/kg/min and a rare few may exceed 85 ml/kg/min for men and 70 ml/kg/min for women. Five time Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain is reported to have had a VO₂ max of 88.0 at his peak , while cross-country skier Bjørn Dæhlie measured at an astounding 96 ml/kg/min. Dæhlie's result was achieved out of season, and physiologist Erlend Hem who was responsible for the testing stated that he would not discount the possibility of the skier passing 100 ml/kg/min at his absolute peak. By comparison a competitive club athlete might achieve a VO₂ max of around 70 ml /kg/min. World class rowers are physically very large endurance athletes and typically do not score as high on a per weight basis, but often score exceptionally high in absolute terms. Male rowers typically score VO₂ maximums over 6 litres/minute, and some exceptional individuals have exceeded                  8 litres /min.

 

To put this into perspective, thoroughbred horses have a VO₂ max of around 180 ml/kg/min. Siberian dogs running in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race sled race have VO₂ values as high as 240 ml/kg/min.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VO2_max

 

Yale reclaims Carnegie cup.

Distance: 2000m
Conditions: Light tail winds, building slightly for JV race then tapering off for 1F and 3V. Light tail current.

The Yale Heavyweight varsity eight brought home the Carnegie Cup with a 3 seat victory.

Unfortunately Harry Simperingham and the Yale Bulldogs Freshman 8 came in last.  Cornell was 1^st and Princeton Tigers 2^nd.

Rowing, begun as an undergraduate sport at Yale and Harvard in the 1840s, developing more slowly at Princeton. In 1876, Scottish-American steel maker, Andrew Carnegie was persuaded to build a lake for Princeton. He had built a number of lochs in Scotland. Lake Carnegie was dedicated in 1906.

The Carnegie Cup  was given by Andrew Carnegie's widow in 1920. Since its inception, Princeton has won the Carnegie Cup 36 times, while Cornell has won it 29 times. Yale has taken the Cup just 18 times. The Big Red (Cornell) finished first last season after coming in second the year before. No team has repeated as the winner since the Tigers won three straight from 2004 to 2006.

twitter yalecrew 2V results: Princeton 5:33.3, Cornell 5:33.3, Yale 5:42.0.

twitter yalecrew The 3V just beat out Cornell, open over Princeton to keep their season undefeated. Nice job boys.

twitter yalecrew The varsity brought home the Carnegie Cup with a victory over Princeton by 3 seats and Cornell by a length.

twitter yalecrew 4V lost to Cornell, still waiting on the official results to know the margin.

twitter TigerHeavies Cornell 1F by 0.2 secs over tigers. Yale back

RESULTS Varsity 8: Yale         5:25.6 Princeton 5:27.0 Cornell     5:29.7 2nd Varsity 8: Princeton (declared winner) 5:33.3 Cornell     5:33.3 Yale         5:42.0 3V: Yale         5:39.3 Cornell     5:39.8 Princeton 5:48.1 4V/2F: Cornell     5:46.9 Yale         6:02.7 Frosh/Novice 8: Cornell     5:33.9 Princeton 5:34.3 Yale         5:47.2

 

EARC HW Men
April 20, 2010

The first Collegiate Rowing Poll is out for Rotorua’s Harry Simperingham rowing for YALE University Heavyweight Men’s Freshman Eight

Frosh (FRESHMAN EIGHT)

1	HAR	1.06
2	PRI	2.5
3	BOS	3.31
4	COR	4.18
5	NAV	4.43
6	PEN	6.06
7	COL	7.375
8	GEO	7.75
9	YAL	9.25
10	BRO	10
11	SYR	10.81
12	WIS	10.93
13	DAR	11.25
14	NOR	11.5
15	HOL	13.93
16	GWU	14.25
17	RUT	15.87

 

4/22/10

Yale to Race for Carnegie Cup

Princeton and Cornell will meet the Bulldogs at home, at the Gilder Boathouse, for the Carnegie Cup, to determine who will hold the Carnegie Cup for the next year. In the last three years, all three teams have won the cup: Yale in 2007, Princeton in 2008 and Cornell in 2009.

 

 

 

A rowing legend- Rob Waddell

 

PHOTO; 2.3.09;ROB WADDELL ALONE AT KARAPIRO WARMING UP AT 7AM BEFORE HIS TRIAL RACE AGAINST MAHE DRYSDALE FOR THE POSITON OF SINGLE SCULLER ON THE NZ ELITE TEAM FOR THE 2009 WORLD CHAMPS (Ann Woolliams)

PHOTO; MAHE DRYSDALE POWERS OVER ROB WADDELL AT NZ ROWING TRIALS (Ann Woolliams)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Waddell

 

Robert "Rob" Norman Waddell, ONZM, (born January 7, 1975 in Te Kuiti) is a New Zealand rower, yachtsman and rugby union player. Waddell has one of the highest VO₂ max intake levels of any athlete ever tested. He holds the fastest 2000 meter indoor rowing machine time in the world, clocking a time of 5 mins 36.6secs (5:36.6).

 

DISTANCE             TIME      AGE          YEAR

2000m                   5:36:6    32           2008

2000m                   5:38:3    24           1999

 

                                                                      

 He also holds the record for 5000m on the rowing machine with a time of 14:58. This made him the first person to go sub 15min for this distance . In 2008 he made a comeback to rowing after leaving the sport after the 2000 Sydney Olympics in pursuit of a sailing career as a grinder. With 8 years out of the sport he broke the 2000m and 5000m on the rowing machine and defeated Mahe Drysdale, the then world champion in the single sculls, who was also a New Zealander. As it was an Olympic year and only one crew can be sent to the Olympics in each boat class the stage was set for a battle to see who would fill the Olympic single sculls spot. Despite Rob getting the better of Mahe Drysdale in the domestic regattas the selectors created a 3 race trial to decide who would go. With the wins for each sculler tied at 1-1 it came down to a final race in which Mahe won. Rob was later selected into the double with the young Nathan Cohen. They finished a disappointing 4th at the Olympics.

Olympic Games
Gold	2000 Sydney	Single Sculls
World Championships
Gold	1998	Single Sculls
Gold	1999	Single Sculls

 

 

New Zealand’s Olympic Women’s Rowing Medals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_rowing_(women)

DOUBLE SCULLS

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2004 Athens details	New Zealand (NZL) Georgina Evers-Swindell Caroline Evers-Swindell	Germany (GER) Peggy Waleska Britta Oppelt	Great Britain (GBR) Sarah Winckless Elise Laverick
2008 Beijing details	New Zealand (NZL) Georgina Evers-Swindell Caroline Evers-Swindell	Germany (GER) Annekatrin Thiele Christiane Huth	Great Britain (GBR) Elise Laverick Anna Bebington

COXLESS PAIRS

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1988 Seoul details	Romania (ROU) Rodica Arba Olga Homeghi	Bulgaria (BUL) Radka Stoyanova Lalka Berberova	New Zealand (NZL) Nicola Payne Lynley Hannen

 

New Zealand’s Olympic Men’s Rowing Medals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_rowing_(men)

 

SINGLE SCULLS

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1920 Antwerp details	John B. Kelly, Sr. (USA)	Jack Beresford (GBR)	Clarence Hadfield D'Arcy (NZL)
1988 Seoul details	Thomas Lange (GDR)	Peter-Michael Kolbe (FRG)	Eric Verdonk (NZL)
2000 Sydney details	Rob Waddell (NZL)	Xeno Muller (SUI)	Marcel Hacker (GER)
2008 Beijing details	Olaf Tufte (NOR)	Ondřej Synek (CZE)	Mahe Drysdale (NZL)

COXLESS PAIRS

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1932 Los Angeles details	Great Britain (GBR) Lewis Clive Hugh Edwards	New Zealand (NZL) Cyril Stiles Fred Thompson	Poland (POL) Henryk Budziński Jan Krenz-Mikołajczak
2008 Beijing details	Australia (AUS) Drew Ginn Duncan Free	Canada (CAN) David Calder Scott Frandsen	New Zealand (NZL) Nathan Twaddle George Bridgewater

COXLESS FOURS

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1972 Munich details	East Germany (GDR) Frank Forberger Frank Rühle Dieter Grahn Dieter Schubert	New Zealand (NZL) Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills	West Germany (FRG) Joachim Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Franz Held Wolfgang Plottke
1984 Los Angeles details	New Zealand (NZL) Les O'Connell Shane O'Brien Conrad Robertson Keith Trask	United States (USA) David Clark Johnathan Smith Philip Stekl Alan Forney	Denmark (DEN) Michael Jessen Lars Nielsen Per H.S. Rasmussen Eric Christiansen

COXED EIGHTS

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1972 Munich details	New Zealand (NZL) Tony Hurt Wybo Veldman Dick Joyce John Hunter Lindsay Wilson Athol Earl Trevor Coker Gary Robertson Simon Dickie	United States (USA) Lawrence Terry Franklin Hobbs Peter Raymond Timothy Mickelson Eugene Clapp William Hobbs Cleve Livingston Michael Livingston Paul Hoffman	East Germany (GDR) Hans-Joachim Borzym Jörg Landvoigt Harold Dimke Manfred Schneider Hartmut Schreiber Manfred Schmorde Bernd Landvoigt Heinri Mederow Dietmar Schwarz
1976 Montreal details	East Germany (GDR) Bernd Baumgart Gottfried Dohn Werner Klatt Hans Joachim Luck Dieter Wendisch Roland Kostulski Ulrich Karnatz Karl Heins Prudohl Karl Heinz Danielovski	Great Britain (GBR) Richard Lester John Yallop Timothy Crooks Hugh Matheson David Maxwell James Clark Fred Smallbone Leonard Robertson Patrick Sweeney	New Zealand (NZL) Ivan Sutherland Trevor Coker Peter Dignan Lindsay Wilson Athol Earl Dave Rodger Alex McLean Tony Hurt Simon Dickie

 Coxed fours

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1968 Mexico City details	New Zealand (NZL) Dick Joyce Ross Collinge Dudley Storey Warren Cole Simon Dickie (cox)	East Germany (GDR) Peter Kremtz Manfred Gelpke Roland Göbler Klaus Jacon Dieter Semetzky (cox)	Switzerland (SUI) Denis Oswald Peter Bolliger Hugo Waser Jakob Grob Gottlieb Fröhlich (cox)
1984 Los Angeles details	Great Britain (GBR) Richard Budgett Martin Cross Adrian Ellison Andy Holmes Steve Redgrave	United States (USA) Edward A. Ives Thomas N. Kiefer Michael Bach Greg T. Springer John S. Stillings	New Zealand (NZL) Brett Hollister Kevin Lawton Barrie Mabbott Don Symon Ross Tong
1988 Seoul details	East Germany (GDR) Bernd Niesecke Hendrik Reiher Karsten Schmelling Bernd Eichwurzel Frank Klawonn	Romania (ROU) Dimitrie Popescu Ioan Snep Vasile Tomoiagă Ladislav Lovrenski Valenti Robu	New Zealand (NZL) Chris White Ian Wright Andrew Bird Greg Johnston George Keys