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TORONTO - Sunday February 3, 2008 National Team Rowers Dominate Senior Women's Event at Canadian Indoors (BOSTON) FEBRUARY 25, 2007 - CANADIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONS STRIKE GOLD AT WORLD'S
Anna-Marie de Zwager completed her 2000 metre race in 6:43.3 (average split 1:40.9) finishing at the top spot of 279 competitors from all over the world. The World Indoor Rowing Championships were held in an ice hockey arena at Boston University, bringing out the best indoor racers from Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. - 1500 competitors in total. "She blew away the competion controlling the race all the way in a strong international field" explained an excited Joe Vince by cell phone this evening. Joe Vince, Technical Director at CIRC and Barbara Schneider, Entries Chair, were both in Boston volunteering their behind the scenes technical expertise to the World Indoor Race organizing team. Alex Wilson, of Fonthill Ontario also won his event in the 75-79 Heavyweight Men's age group. Alex was also a winner at CIRC in Toronto and won the airfare to compete in Boston. He just narrowly missed beating the world record by .4 seconds finishing with a time of 7.22.6 ahead of Tor Ahlsand of Oslo, Norway. The world record is 7.22.3. Michelle Prince, another 2007 Toronto race qualifier narrrowly missed the medals in Boston finishing fourth in the Open Lightweight Women's event. Michelle is from St. Catharines and rows for Ridley Graduate B.C. Her time was 7:12.1 just ahead of Julia Sidone-Wolff of Team Germany. As well in Boston in the Junior Lightweight Women category, Jenna Burke and Amy Rappotini of E.L. Crossley High School in Fonthill finished 5th and 7th respectively. At CIRC on February 4, Jenna won the Jr Lwt Women's event and Amy took the silver. For full World Championship results including race analysis for individuals click here.... _______________________________________________________________________________ Feb 4, 2007 - Heavyweight Women Make a Show of Strength at Canadian Indoors...
The women from Rowing Canada's London Training Centre came out in force on Sunday to race at the Canadian Indoor Rowing Championships in Toronto. In one of the most hotly contested races of the day, Anna-Marie de Zwager of the London Centre won the heavyweight women's category in 06:41.6 - a personal best time on the erg (or indoor rowing machine)."I did better than expected. I didn't know whether I'd have the legs to go for it at this time of year," said de Zwager, a Victoria, B.C. native. More...
Feb 3, 2007 - National team rowers rev up training months before returning to water Neil Stevens, Canadian Press
(CP) - The big regattas are months away, but that doesn't mean Canada's rowers are taking the winter off. Au contraire. "We're training as hard as we would in the summer," says world champion Jane Rumball. Most of the work is on rowing machines, and this is a big weekend for it as rowers congregate in Toronto, Victoria, Regina, St-Hyacinthe, Que., and Dartmouth, N.S., for Rowing Canada's annual indoor championships. "It'll be intense," Rumball predicts. More.... --------------------------------------------------------- Feb 2, 2007 - Canadian Indoor Regattas Feature Top Rowing Talent This Sunday Jackie Skender, Rowing Canada Aviron This Sunday promises to be the Super Bowl of indoor rowing! The Canadian Indoor Rowing Championships in Toronto and the Monster Erg in Victoria - Canada's top indoor rowing events - are gearing up for some great racing on February 4. They will be joined by events across the country including the Prairie Rowing Championships (Regina, Sask.), the Quebec Indoors (Championnat Québécois d'aviron en salle - St-Hyacinthe, Que.) and the Atlantic Indoor Championships (Dartmouth, N.S.), which are all held on the same day. More.... --------------------------------------------------------- Feb 1 , 2007 - Indoor Regatta Season: On The “Row” to the CRASH-B Sprints Bill Patton, Concept2 in Vermont, U.S.A. From November to February, temperatures are dropping, but inside arenas, clubhouses, boathouses and gyms across the U.S. and Canada, things are really heating up. At races everywhere from Baltimore to Long Beach, thousands of athletes will test their endurance in hopes of winning a medal, achieving a world record or just beating their personal best on Concept2 Indoor Rowers. The indoor rowing regatta season starts in November and peaks in Boston in mid-February with the mother of all races: the World Indoor Rowing Championships—a.k.a. the C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints. More ...
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Canadian National Team member Anna-Marie de Zwager won the women's open race today in Boston at the World Indoor Rowing Championships 6 seconds ahead of 2nd place finisher Jenny Van Dobben de Bruin of the Netherlands. Winning today adds another gold medal to her collection from the indoor circuit this winter. Earlier, on February 4, she won the women's event at the Canadian Indoor Rowing Championships in Toronto edging out many of her national team mates and qualifying for the airline ticket to Boston from Concept 2.
