Pan Am Finals, Saturday March 18 *FULL RESULTS*

Pan Am Finals, Saturday March 18 *FULL RESULTS*

Post by OliR » Mon, 20 Mar 1995 06:18:03


Rowing Finals, Day 1
March 18, 1995
Laguna de  los Padres, Mar del Plata, Argentina

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US Crews Capture 3 Gold and 6 Silver at Laguna de los Padres; Lightweight
Sculler Decision Reversed and Flemer Added to Lane 7 for Sunday Final

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Mar del Plata, Argentina

In the first day of finals in the rowing competition at Laguna de los
Padres, the US crews left with the most hardware of any country -- six
silver
and three gold medals, a total of nine from the 11 events contested today.
Argentina captured four gold, but only seven overall.  Three US men's
sweep
(one oar) boats earned gold medals.  The open four without coxswain,
lightweight eight and lightweight pair without coxswain all won.  Further
celebration surrounded the US lightweight sculler who protested the
results of
his race Thursday after a branch caught on his boat fin impeded his
performance.  Initially, the jury denied his protest, but upon further
review
has added him to the final in lane 7.

The lightweight pair of Christopher Kerber, Collingswood, N.J., and Andrew
Finch, Boston, Mass., overcame a poor start where they were fifth off the
line
and used short five stroke "punches" to work their way through the
competition.  For Kerber, the victory was all the more meaningful because
although he was a gold medalist at the 1991 Pan Am Games and at the 1993
World
Championships,he did not earn a seat on the 1994 National Team.  Bruce
Konopka, Philadelphia, Pa., coaches the pair who row out of Vesper Boat
Club
in Philadelphia, the club of past USOC president, John Kelly, Jr.The
lightweight eight, also coached by Konopka, benefited from their coxswain
Peter Cipollone, Ardmore, Pa., who had raced one hour earlier with the
silver
medal pair with coxswain.  The light eight captured the second gold medal
of
the day for the US.  Knowing the water conditions on the course, Cipollone
suggested the crew use the protected water of the first 500 meters to
establish a lead and then focus on longer, solid strokes through the
middle of
the race where the crosswind affected the boat more.  "Of the possible
wind
conditions today," he said, "this was the worst.  There were waves
breaking
over the port riggers, and they were breaking."

Perhaps the best news of the day went to Ross Flemer, Newport Beach,
Calif.,
and his coach Ted Nash.  Flemer protested Thursday's race results after he
dragged a 3 foot branch 1,200 meters which was caught on the fin of his
shell.
Initially his protest was denied by the Jury of Officials, but was
revisited
with the international federation officials and now is being upheld.  The
Jury
now is allowing Flemer to row in lane seven of the final for the
lightweight
men's single sculls.  Lane seven does have a few disadvantages, namely
that it
is a bit narrower than the other six lanes Coach Nash said, but this
allows
Flemer the opportunity to row.  It is only in very rare occasions that
juries
reverse their decisions, FISA president Denis Oswald said.

The remaining US medals came in the following events: lightweight men's
quadruple sculls, lightweight women's double sculls, women's single
sculls,
men's pair with coxswain and women's double.

        Country       Gold    Silver Bronze   Total

        Argentina       4       1       2       7
        USA             3       6       0       9
        Cuba            2       0       4       6
        Canada          2       3       1       6
        Brazil          0       1       0       1
        Mexico          0       0       4       4

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Regatta officials altered the Sunday schedule of events slightly.  The
order
of events is as follows:

        8:30 a.m.  Lightweight Women's Pair without Coxswain
        8:40 a.m.  Men's Quadruple Sculls
        9:00 a.m.  Men's Four with Coxswain
        9:20 a.m.  Lightweight Men's Double Sculls
        9:40 a.m.  Women's Quadruple Sculls
        10:00 a.m. Men's Pair without Coxswain
        10:20 a.m. Lightweight Women's Quadruple Sculls *EXHIBITION*
        10:40 a.m. Lightweight Men's Single Sculls
        11:00 a.m. Women's Pair without Coxswain
        11:20 a.m. Lightweight Men's Four without Coxswain
        11:40 a.m  Men's Eight

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RESULTS OF FINALS, SATURDAY, MARCH 18

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Men's Single Sculls

1. Argentina, Sergio Fernandez, 6:03.43;
2. USA, Cyrus Beasley, 6:14.81;
3. Cuba, Leonides Same Sanchez, 6:23.65;
4. Uruguay, Jesus Posse Vivas,6:35.43;
5. Canada, Reuben Thompson, 6:39.51.

Lightweight Men's Quadruple Sculls

1. Cuba, 6:36.54;
2. USA, Jeffrey Pfaendtner, Grosse Point, Mich.; Ed Hewitt, Ventnor,
   N.J.; William Carlucci, Rye Brook, N.Y.; Michael Dreher, Durham,N.H.,
   6:39.62;
3. Mexico, 6:43.73;
4. Argentina, 6:48.85;
5. Chile.

Lightweight Men's Pair without Coxswain

1. USA, Chris Kerber, Collingswood, N.J.; Andrew Finch, Boston, Mass.,
   7:38.50;
2. Canada, 7:52.58;
3. Mexico, 7:52.58;
4. Guatamala, 7:57.60;
5. Cuba, 8:05.55;
6. Brazil, 8:25.18.

Lightweight Women's Double Sculls

1. Argentina, 8:06.13;
2. USA, Barbara Spitz, Philadelphia, Pa.;Elizabeth Gordon, S. Hadley,
Mass.,
   8:10.54;
3. Mexico, 8:17.50;
4. Paraguay, 8:53.02;
5. Puerto Rico, 8:59.10.

Women's Double Sculls

1. Canada, 7:57.95;
2. USA, Michelle Knox Zaloom, Annapolis, Md.; Andrea Thies, Irvington,
N.Y.,
   8:05.80;
3. Cuba, 8:22.73;
4. Peru, 8:34.15;
5. Argentina, 8:45.32.

Men's Pair with Coxswain

1. Cuba, 8:08.34;
2. USA, Chris Swan, Old Saybrook, Conn.; Tom Murray,Buffalo, N.Y.;
   Peter Cipollone, Ardmore, Pa., 8:11.33;
3. Argentina,8:19.18;
4. Peru, 8:28.10;
5. Chile, dnf.

Men's Double Sculls

1. Argentina, 7:23.17;
2. Brazil, 7:32.63;
3. Canada, 7:34.46;
4. USA, David Gleeson, Milwaukee, Wis.; Jason Gailes, Dighton, Mass.,
   7:35.90;
5. Cuba, 7:42.63.

Lightweight Women's Single Sculls

1. Argentina, Maria Garisoain, 9:20.80;
2. Canada, Wendy Wiebe, 9:30.65;
3. Mexico, Andrea Bradstret, 9:35.81;
4. USA, Lindsay Burns, Big Timber, Mont., 9:44.66;
5. Paraguay, 10:52.59;
6. Puerto Rico, Sandra Garcia Madera, 10:54.30.

Lightweight Men's Eight

1. USA, Peter Cipollone, Ardmore, Pa.; Steve Gantz, McLean, Va.; John
   Velyvis, N. Adams. Mass.; David Collins, Thousand Oaks, Calif.; Steve
   Robinson, Ardwyn, Conn.; Jonathan Moss, Tenafly, N.J.; Ed Grose,
   Juneau, Alaska, Tom Grace, Dallas, Texas, 6:24.70;
2. Argentina, 6:27.76;
3. Cuba, 6:34.58;
4. Chile, 6:38.53;
5. Mexico, excluded.

Men's Four without Coxswain

1. USA, Jamie Koven, Green Village, N.J.; Jon Brown, New York City, N.Y.;
   Bob Kaehler, Huntington, N.Y.; Sean Hall, Arlington, Va., 6:36.80;
2. Canada, 6:39.84;
3. Cuba, 6:48.31;
4. Argentina, 6:49.90;
5. Uruguay,7:03.68;
6. Brazil, 7:16.73.

Women's Single Sculls

1. Canada, Silken Laumann, 8:34.09;
2. USA, Ruth Davidon, Baltimore, Md., 8:46.63;
3. Argentina, Maria Garisoain, 8:54.70;
4. Cuba, Odalis Martinez, 9:32.16;
5. Mexico, Lourdes Montoya, 9:35.17.

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Results from the Sunday Finals will be posted as soon as they are
available
from the USOC Bulletin Board in Mar del Plata.

-or

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Pan Am Finals, Saturday March 18 *FULL RESULTS*

Post by Ronald K. Ch » Wed, 22 Mar 1995 02:08:01

Quote:

>Perhaps the best news of the day went to Ross Flemer, Newport Beach,
>Calif.,
>and his coach Ted Nash.  Flemer protested Thursday's race results after he
>dragged a 3 foot branch 1,200 meters which was caught on the fin of his
>shell.
>Initially his protest was denied by the Jury of Officials, but was
>revisited
>with the international federation officials and now is being upheld.  The
>Jury
>now is allowing Flemer to row in lane seven of the final for the
>lightweight
>men's single sculls.  Lane seven does have a few disadvantages, namely
>that it
>is a bit narrower than the other six lanes Coach Nash said, but this
>allows
>Flemer the opportunity to row.  It is only in very rare occasions that
>juries
>reverse their decisions, FISA president Denis Oswald said.

My goodness, how things get magnified!  The proceedings were somewhat
less earth shattering than this description might lead one to believe.  It
is true that at the initial Jury hearing, after we inspected the offending
"branch" (really, a hollow reed or stalk), the Jury decided to defer to the
umpire for the race and the President of the Jury (who was following the
race) that this did not justify rerowing the entire repechage and putting
all the other competitors at a possible disadvantage.  The President of
FISA, Denis Oswald, said this was the correct decision.  At that time, a
seventh lane was really not discussed, because the majority thought that
this would not be fair to the Brazilian sculler, who had already beaten
the USA sculler twice but was not advancing to the final.  After Ted Nash's
energetic entreaties to President Oswald, he agreed to present a creative
compromise to the Jury.  Ross Flemmer would be placed in a seventh lane,
but if he came in seventh in the final, he would be placed LAST overall
(tenth place) not seventh.  If he beat at least one other finalist, then he
would be given whatever ranking he achieved.  This was judged by the Jury
to be fair to all concerned (inlcuding the Brazilian sculler), and the
majority approved it.  In the end, Flemmer came in sixth, wand thus was
awarded sixth place overall.

I should say that some of the other countries were not particularly happy
with the Jury's reconsideration and decision, which I suppose goes to show
that if popularity is what you want, become a priest, not a sports official.

Ron Chen
(just off the plane from Buenos Aires)