Lightweight men’s pair (LM2-)
Greek brothers, Nikolaos and Apostolos Gkountoulas won at the final Rowing World Cup for 2008, last month in Poland. Today they went one step closer to a world champion medal by leading heat three and finishing it off in by far the fastest qualifying time. This fast time can partly put down to the strong challenge thrown at the Greeks by Simon Niepmann and Mario Gyr of Switzerland. These two boats started out in the top two spots and remained there for the rest of the race. A huge yawning gap opened up back to the remainder of the field. Greece and Switzerland advance to the semi-final.
Lightweight men’s single sculls (LM1x)
Heat two did not set any records for fireworks rowing. In a reasonably sedate race, Greece’s Ilias Pappas got out into the lead, Belguim settled into second and the United States looked comfortable in third. No challenges were made. Nothing changed. At the line Greece, Belgium and the USA will be moving on to the quarterfinal.
Σημειώστε και αυτό.
The lightweight men’s single had a huge field of 31 countries competing which meant six heats were needed with the top three boats in all but the first heat advancing to the quarterfinal. The reigning world champion Duncan Grant of New Zealand set the standard in heat one. Grant grabbed the lead at the start but mahave been surprised to see his closest rival dressed in the colours of Iran. Mohsen Shadi Naghadeh of Iran has only been rowing 10 months, but last week he earned silver at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships. Naghadeh was giving Grant a run for his moneyy . Grant, however, did just enough to hold Naghadeh off. The rest of the field followed a good distance back. At the line New Zealand, Iran, Finland and, as there was one extra boat in this race, fourth placed Tunisia also gets to advance to the quarterfinal.
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