Rowing: Canada wins silver in women’s double
Posted September 4, 2011 12:33 pm.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
BLED, Slovenia — Canada’s lightweight women’s double won silver Sunday at the world rowing championships.
Victoria natives Lindsay Jennerich and Patricia Obee picked up the medal one day after securing a spot in 2012 Olympics.
Jennerich was the 2010 World Champion in this event with Tracy Cameron. However, an injury in early August took Cameron away from training and Obee, just 19 years old, stepped in.
“I’m about 99 per cent as happy as last year,” said Jennerich. “You can never be happier than with a win, but given our circumstances and what we’ve had to overcome … it’s great.
“I’m really proud of how we just mentally stuck to the job and it paid off today.”
Greece won gold in six minutes 59.80 seconds, Canada was second in 7:03.46 and Britain third in 7:04.33, over 2,000 metres.
“I felt more and more confident with each race,” said Obee, who also rowed on the under-23 team this year.
Meanwhile, Canada’s adaptive mixed coxed four won a silver medal in 3:31.84. Britain won the race in 3:27.10 while Germany finished third in 3:33.27.
Last year, Canada was able to edge out Britain at the line, but this year they settled for silver.
“We had an aggressive race, but came short of the goal,” said coxswain Laura Comeau. “Last year we threw the ball in (Britain’s) court, and this year they threw it back. We love to play, so it’s game on for the Paralympics in London next year.”
The four consists of Victoria’s Tony Theriault, David Blair of Ottawa, Meghan Montgomery of Winnipeg, Toronto’s Victoria Nolan and Comeau, who is from St. Catharines, Ont.
Elsewhere, Canada’s men’s four won the B final to finish seventh overall and qualify for the Olympics.
Canada won in 5:58.55 to beat New Zealand (5:58.76), Belarus (5:58.82), Italy (5:59.43), Serbia (6:00.18) and the Czech Republic (6:02.62) followed in sixth.
The men’s four is Derek O’Farrell of Montreal, Will Dean of Kelowna, B.C., Winnipeg’s Kevin Kowalyk and Vancouver’s Anthony Jacob.
The lightweight men’s double of Doug Vandor and Cam Sylvester secured an Olympic spot by finishing fifth in the B final.
Vandor, from Dewittville, Que., and Sylvester, from Caledon, Ont., had a time of 6:30.73 to grab the final Olympic berth.
