Men’s Lightweight 8+:
Navy finished third overall [15:37.129] and second among collegiate eights. NYAC, nearly all of the 2009 World Championships silver medalists, finished first among 21 entries, only 8.8 seconds in front of the Mids after 3 miles. Princeton rowed the fastest time of the event [15:22.725], but finished second after a 10 second buoy violation.
Yale LWs finished sixth [15:55.939], trailing Georgetown and Cornell. Harvard posted a finishing time of 15:36.07, good enough for third place, but were penalized a full minute for course violations, adjusting their final result to 18th. The Yale lightweights also had a second entry in the Lightweight Eights comprised of only freshmen. The boat moved up one position from its starting sport and finished with a time of 16:38.716.
Men’s Lightweight 4+:
Men’s Lightweight 8+:
Navy finished third overall [15:37.129] and second among collegiate eights. NYAC, nearly all of the 2009 World Championships silver medalists, finished first among 21 entries, only 8.8 seconds in front of the Mids after 3 miles. Princeton rowed the fastest time of the event [15:22.725], but finished second after a 10 second buoy violation.
Yale LWs finished sixth [15:55.939], trailing Georgetown and Cornell. Harvard posted a finishing time of 15:36.07, good enough for third place, but were penalized a full minute for course violations, adjusting their final result to 18th. The Yale lightweights also had a second entry in the Lightweight Eights comprised of only freshmen. The boat moved up one position from its starting sport and finished with a time of 16:38.716.
Men’s Lightweight 4+:
The Yale men’s lightweight crew team finished first among all collegiate crews in the Men’s Lightweight Fours event among 16 crews. Yale had two entries in the event and the Bulldogs took fourth and sixth places, separated only by perennial foe Navy [17:39.264].
In the Lightweight Fours, Yale finished in fourth place with a time of 17:28.655, only two seconds behind Don Rowing Club’s winning time of 17:26.637. Along with second and third place finishers, Riverside Boat Club and New York Athletic Club, the top four crews were separated by only two seconds, in what was a very tight race over the 3 mile course of 17 minutes.
Men’s Championship 4+:
Among 19 entries, Navy HWs [17:39.877] finished 12th, immediately ahead of Yale [17:44.691] in 13th, 11.6 seconds back of the winning Wisconsin 4+.
Women’s Championship 4+:
Among 19 entries, Yale Women [19:21.578] finished 6th overall, 5th among 13 collegiate crews.
Men’s Championship 8+:
Among 37 entries, Yale HWs [15:10.270] finished 12th, with the Navy HWs in 16th place [15:23.041]. The winning crew of international all stars from the 2009 World Championships [see picture above] won the event in a time of 14:33.239, despite some last minute repairs and some interesting steering.
The men’s victory was all the more impressive in that they had almost no warm-up, having broken their fin immediately before the race (and for the second time this week). They pulled into the BU docks, the BU folks went into boat triage mode, and the crew scrambled back in the boat just in time to stuff their bow into the starting chute and start racing.
Even that wasn’t sufficient, and at least three times the crew had to have the port-side bow man stop rowing, and the coxswain stab a hand into the water, to make the sharp turns that define parts of the Charles course.
And with all of that, the “Great Eight”, still finished 22.3 seconds ahead of UC Berkeley who led Washington by the narrowest of margins — 0.24 seconds after 3 miles!
Women’s Championship 8+:
The Yale Bulldogs were the top collegiate finishers in the Women’s Championship Eights, bested only by the World Champion USA eight and ASR Nereus–a composite crew of the top four pair rowers from the world championships.
In the premier event of the regatta, the Championship Eights, the Bulldogs finished third overall with a time of 16:43.750. ASR Nereus won the gold with a time of 16:08.165. As the top collegiate finisher, Yale even beat out the Canadian national team (17:04.191) and Nautilus Rowing Club (16:45.547), which is a British entry of national team athletes.
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On Saturday, in a day of very tough conditions, the Eli HWs were first by 3.6 seconds in the Men’s Club 8+, besting 46 other entries. Yale posted the fastest cumulative times at Riverside and Cambridge by small margins [+0.03; -0.08 – Weld; +0.53], taking BMA Boat Club by 3.6 seconds in the finishing stretch.
The Yale Women also finished second in the Club Eights in a time of 17:12.375, bested only by University of Virginia [17:03.732].
Aside from the Y150 squad’s actual performance in the regatta, another point of note was the high number of alumni participating in the race. Yale managed to put several alumni eights on the water, and after Harvard, Yale had the highest number of boats participating in the regatta with 28.
You can get complete results of the HOCR at
http://www.hocr.org/results/results.asp
and review comments from Navy Sports, Yale Sports and Row2k in articles copied below. There is the usual fine stuff from www.row2k.com including commentary, videos and photos.
The Navy lightweight team will return to action with the Navy women’s team at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta on Saturday, Oct. 24, in Philadelphia. One day later, both the Navy heavyweight and lightweight teams along with the three Yale squads {LW, HW and Women] will compete at the 3-mile Princeton Chase on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J.
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