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2006 World Championships - Bronze medal for Lindsay

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World Champs Bronze Medallists 2006, Copyright Bert Cocu (ecbc@nlroei.nl)
Great picture of Lindsay with her medal.
This and other pictures are on 
the NLROEI web site

World Rowing Bronze Medallist

Here's Lindsay, back in the boat after the medal presentation. There are a few other equally good pictures by Bert Cocu on the NLROEI web site.

 

Pictured below: new World Champions China, who improved their own world best time by six seconds in the final, flanked by Denmark (silver) and bronze medallists Great Britain. GRC's Lindsay Dick is 3rd from the right.

World Champs Bronze Medallists 2006, Copyright Edward Hewitt/row2k Media.
For all the TV watchers who never got to see 
the presentation - here's Lindsay and her crew 
with their WORLD BRONZE MEDALS.
This and other pictures are on 
the Row2k web site

Congratulations

" The St Andrew Boat Club would like to pass on its congratulations to Lindsay Dick for a magnificent achievement in winning Bronze at the recent World Championships in the Womens Lightweight 4x.

" We wish her continued rowing success!"

(received 2/9/2006)

The World Championship Regatta at Dorney is the pinnacle of the 2006 rowing season.

GB Lightweight women 4x at Dorney 2006, Copyright www.bigblade.net
FINALLY! this picture of Monday's heat, and a few more 
like it are available for perusal and possible purchase
from the nice people at Big Blade
Lindsay at 2 and Hester Goodsell at 3. More info welcome.

This is particularly true for GRC's Lindsay Dick, who has achieved more than any Scottish-based rower has previously done by representing Great Britain at senior international level this summer

Already this year, Lindsay has competed at the World Cup regattas in Poznan and Lucerne (she missed out on Munich when her crew-mate was injured), but competing in the World Championships takes her to an even higher level. 

Lindsay will be rowing in the lightweight women's quadruple scull, sitting in the '2' seat and making the tactical calls. 

As she says, "the crew now has to try and understand a Scottish accent".

Monday (preliminary heats)

In the heats of the Lightweight women's quadruple sculls, the Chinese crew set a probably unbeatable standard, winning heat 1 from start to finish and soundly defeating last year's silver medallists in the process.

Lucerne - 2006 LW2x.
Lindsay at 
Lucerne.

In heat 2, it was the British crew, with  Lindsay in the 2 seat, that set the pace. 
They were never headed and beat both the USA and last year's gold medallists, Canada who will now need to race again in Wednesday's repechage.

China and GBR go straight to the final of the event on Sunday, as heat winners.

Monday results

Regatta Schedule.

"The heats of the lightweight women's quadruple sculls are at 09:48 and 09:54 on Monday. 
The repechage takes place on Wednesday (August 23) and the final at 13:15 on Sunday (August 27)."

Saturday 19  Opening Ceremony
Sunday 20  Heats - Group A
Monday 21  Heats - Group B
Tuesday 22  Repechages - A
Wednesday 23  Repechages - B
Thursday 24  Semi-Finals A
Friday 25  Semi-Finals B
Saturday 26  Finals A & B
Sunday 27  Finals A & B, Closing Ceremony 
2006 World Rowing Championships - Media - Race Programme

Wednesday (repechage)

The repechage (rescheduled due to looming storms) saw Portugal trailing in last, as expected. They are now eliminated from the event.

Denmark won comfortably, from Germany and USA who had their own very close race over the length of the course. The Danes led by a length by half way and had more than doubled the margin by the finish.
Less than 1/5 of a second separated the Germans and USA, who took 2nd place in the heat behind GB on Monday.

Wednesday results

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Sunday 1:15  - the FINAL

GB were in 4th place at the 1000 metre marker (thank-you to the  BBC, Eurosport and any other useless broadcasting corporation you can think of). 

By this stage, China led the field with clear water over Denmark and already looked unassailable. The Danes had a full length on Germany, with only a further few feet advantage on the British  girls, with the US and Canada trailing.

A concerted push through the 3rd 500 by GB put them a full length in front of Germany with 500 to go, and almost in  contact with Denmark. Meanwhile, the Chinese were going even further ahead.

In the last 500, in front of the roaring grandstands, The GB bow began to reach up the length of the Danish boat, but not quickly enough and it was silver for Denmark, with Lindsay and her GB crew mates collecting bronze.

China's gold medal time of 6:23 was another new world best time, 6 seconds faster than the record which they themselves set in Monday's heat.

Lindsay's crew improved their heat time by 8 seconds - not bad for their second race together, and within a second of the previous WB time!

Sunday results

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Results of Monday's LW4x heats.

Result  World Cup World Rowing Championships 2006, Eton - Race 36: LW4x  Heat 1
boat progression: 1->FA, 2..->R
Rank Boat 500 m 1000 m 1500 m Finish Lane
1 CHN 1:34.90  (1) 3:11.86  (1) 4:50.75  (1) 6:29.24 3
2 DEN 1:36.09  (2) 3:14.69  (2) 4:56.17  (2) 6:36.08 2
3 GER 1:37.83  (3) 3:19.50  (3) 5:02.96  (3) 6:46.59 4
4 POR 1:43.16  (4) 3:30.43  (4) 5:19.05  (4) 7:06.01 1
Key to terms: DNA=Data Not Available DNF=Did Not Finish DNS=Did Not Start DSQ=Disqualified EXC=Excluded BUW=Boat Under Weight

Result  World Cup World Rowing Championships 2006, Eton - Race 37: LW4x  Heat 2
boat progression: 1->FA, 2..->R
Rank Boat 500 m 1000 m 1500 m Finish Lane
1 GBR 1:36.62  (1) 3:15.81  (1) 4:57.18  (1) 6:38.21 3
Laura RALSTON, Lindsay DICK, Sophie HOSKING, Hester GOODSELL
2 USA 1:37.68  (2) 3:19.46  (2) 5:02.64  (2) 6:44.17 1
Anne FINKE, Abby BROUGHTON, Katie SWEET, Michelle TRANNEL
3 CAN 1:39.70  (3) 3:22.18  (3) 5:05.23  (3) 6:45.70 2
Jennifer HOGSDEN, Amber CUTHBERTSON, Sheryl PRESTON, Melanie KOK
Key to terms: DNA=Data Not Available DNF=Did Not Finish DNS=Did Not Start DSQ=Disqualified EXC=Excluded BUW=Boat Under Weight

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Result of Wednesday's LW4x repechage.

Result  World Cup World Rowing Championships 2006, Eton - Race 90: LW4x  Repechage
boat progression: 1-4->FA
Rank Boat 500 m 1000 m 1500 m Finish Lane
1 DEN 1:39.54  (1) 3:21.43  (1) 5:05.17  (1) 6:48.59 4
2 GER 1:40.39  (2) 3:24.44  (2) 5:09.48  (2) 6:54.57 5
3 USA 1:40.71  (3) 3:24.61  (3) 5:10.44  (3) 6:54.70 3
4 CAN 1:41.87  (4) 3:27.79  (4) 5:14.00  (4) 6:58.92 2
5 POR 1:47.75  (5) 3:39.18  (5) 5:32.99  (5) 7:22.03 1
Key to terms: DNA=Data Not Available DNF=Did Not Finish DNS=Did Not Start DSQ=Disqualified EXC=Excluded BUW=Boat Under Weight

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Result  World Cup World Rowing Championships 2006, Eton - Race 226: LW4x  Final A
Rank Boat 500 m 1000 m 1500 m Finish Lane
1 CHN 1:33.58  (1) 3:09.77  (1) 4:46.72  (1) 6:23.96 4
Hua YU, Haixia CHEN, Xuefei FAN, Jing LIU
2 DEN 1:34.98  (2) 3:11.91  (2) 4:50.38  (2) 6:28.16 2
Kirsten JEPSEN, Sine CHRISTIANSEN, Katrin OLSEN, Juliane RASMUSSEN
3 GBR 1:36.69  (5) 3:14.72  (4) 4:52.78  (3) 6:30.02 3
Laura RALSTON, Lindsay DICK, Hester GOODSELL, Sophie HOSKING
4 GER 1:35.83  (3) 3:14.38  (3) 4:55.97  (4) 6:39.23 5
Nadja GAENSEWIG, Lena KERSTEN, Claudia SCHAD, Laura TASCH
5 USA 1:36.38  (4) 3:16.38  (5) 4:58.38  (5) 6:40.86 1
Anne FINKE, Abby BROUGHTON, Katie SWEET, Michelle TRANNEL
6 CAN 1:38.38  (6) 3:20.22  (6) 5:03.97  (6) 6:46.38 6
Jennifer HOGSDEN, Amber CUTHBERTSON, Sheryl PRESTON, Melanie KOK
Key to terms: DNA=Data Not Available DNF=Did Not Finish DNS=Did Not Start DSQ=Disqualified EXC=Excluded BUW=Boat Under Weight

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TV Schedule:

The BBC are providing extensive (relatively) coverage, and racing will also be televised on British Eurosport.

There is more information on the FISA World Rowing site.

The following details are from the Radio Times :
Thursday 24 August 
11:00am - 2:30pm Live Rowing Eurosport VIDEO Plus+: 2775144
12:10pm - 2:15pm World Rowing Championships BBC2 Scotland VIDEO Plus+: 35778927
Friday 25 August
11:00am - 1:00pm Live Rowing British Eurosport VIDEO Plus+: 51187
Saturday 26 August
11:00am - 2:15pm Live Rowing British Eurosport VIDEO Plus+: 58886442
12:00pm - 1:00pm World Rowing Championships BBC2 Scotland VIDEO Plus+: 84997
1:05pm - 2:15pm World Rowing Championships BBC1 Scotland VIDEO Plus+: 8024978
Sunday 27 August
11:45am - 1:15pm Live Rowing British Eurosport VIDEO Plus+: 834094
1:10pm - 3:35pm World Rowing Championships BBC2 Scotland VIDEO Plus+: 64209060
2:00pm - 3:30pm Live Rowing British Eurosport VIDEO Plus+: 53756

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News featuring the lw4x event

28-Aug From the British International Rowing website: More medals for GB on last day
On the BBC sport website:GB quad make do with world silver
Yet more Grainger-centricity from The Herald's "rowing correspondent":Tears as Grainger is pipped
24-Aug The Canuck perspective: 

Waterdown's Jenny Hogsden makes world rowing finals

and Three Canadian boats advance to semis at world rowing championships

The  view from the US:

After years of decline, Vesper crews among the country's fastest

and Four Pocock rowers advance to world finals

22-Aug More Grainger-worship from The Herald's "rowing correspondent". 

Grainger's crew book place in final

From the Times:

Grainger puts her experience to good use for Britain

21-Aug There must be one of those little plastic tunnels between the Herald and the Scotsman:

Grainger goes in search of excellence at Eton

Name-check for Lindsay in the BBC on-line report of Monday's racing: 

GB quadruple scullers claim win

On the official WC web site:

Event Review: Lightweight women's quadruple sculls (LW4x)

From the FISA web site:

New best time set by China at Rowing World Champs

On the official WC web site:

CLARIFICATION to youngest competitor

The usual effulgent praise from The Herald's "rowing correspondent". 

Rowing: Grainger and crew set sail on early venture

On the official WC web site:

Event Review: Lightweight women's quadruple sculls (LW4x)

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