OCTOBER E-NEWS

Over 400 international competitors from over 24 countries gathered in Sidney, BC to compete in the first ever World Coastal Rowing Championships held in North America. 

The A finals were streamed live and raced over a six-kilometre course beginning with a beach start followed by five buoy turns, and a beach finish. Olympian and Sidney resident Julien Bahain not only served as Regatta Director for the event, but won gold with his rowing partner and brother-in-law, Mitchel Steenman.

“It was bigger than what we expected,” said Bahain. “It was a good surprise for everyone and definitely brought some awareness of the sport.”

Congratulations to Regatta Director, Julien Bahain, Event Operations Director, Brenda Taylor, and Regatta Manager, Marla Weston, the entire organizing committee and all the volunteers for a very successful event.

One of the goals of the event is to leave a legacy of equipment to support the development of coastal rowing in BC, Canada and North America. 

Please contact Charles@eurodiffusions.com for more information.

Check out this short highlight clip @WorldRowing twitter
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Full Results

The RCA Annual Excellence Awards is a prestigious event celebrating the outstanding achievements and contributions of our best volunteers, coaches and clubs. Your final opportunity to nominate a deserving coach, volunteer or club is November 15, 2018. The event will be held at the 2019 RCA National Conference in Calgary, AB on January 26, 2019.
Please click on the links below to submit a nomination:

• Club – “Outstanding Achievement of the Year” presented by Pearson Dunn Insurance Inc.
• Coach of the Year
• Jack Nicholson Coaching Bursary
• Lifetime Achievement Award
• Long Service Award
• Volunteer of the Year

Congratulations to Hillary Janssens and Caileigh Filmer named 2018 World Rowing Award Finalists! Hillary and Caileigh had an outstanding season in the Women’s Pair winning Gold at World Cup I in Belgrade followed by a Silver medal at World Cup 3 in Lucerne. Janssens and Filmer capped off their season with a new World Championship title, defeating the reigning World Champions and world best time holders Prendergast and Gowler of New Zealand. 

“Caileigh and I are honoured to be named finalists as there were many phenomenal crews and performances this year,” said Janssens this week. “We are very proud to have earned this recognition for not only ourselves, but our entire team, organization, and country. We are truly grateful for everyone who supported us and played a part in our success this year.”

The winners will be announced on Friday November 23rd at the World Rowing Awards dinner in Berlin, Germany. 

Women’s Crew of the Year Finalists:

Caileigh Filmer, Hillary Janssens, Canada, Women’s pair
Sanita Puspure, Ireland, Women’s single sculls
Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska, Marta Wieliczko, Maria Springwald, Katarzyna Zillmann, Poland, Women’s quadruple sculls
 

Congratulations to Grace VandenBroek (Drouro-Dummer/Peterborough Rowing Club/Trent University) finishing 12th overall in the Youth Olympic Games junior women’s single sculls event after finishing fourth in the C final in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Her time of 1:52:30 was the 14th fastest of the 24 rowers in the six final rounds.

Grace caps off an impressive season of international events, including the U23 World Championships in Poland and World Junior Championships in Czech Republic. Grace was supported at the Youth Olympic Games by RCA NextGen Coach Lead, Carol Love. 

The Youth Olympic Games are an elite sporting event for young people all over the world. The sports programme is based on that of the Olympic Games, with 28 sports featured on the summer programme.

The rowing events include men’s and women’s single sculls and pairs. The course had 4 lanes with a race distance of 500m.