Three very successful Olympic gold medal coaches are heading the bill. Aleksander Wojciechowski, coach of the Polish men’s quad will speak along with Richard Tonks who coached New Zealand’s Evers-Swindell twins to consecutive Olympic champion titles. Also Australia’s Chris O’Brien, the coach behind the Olympic champion men’s pair, Drew Ginn and Duncan Free.
O’Brien, Tonks and Wojciechowski will talk about the four years leading up to the Beijing Olympics. Amongst other things, they will cover the ups and downs along the way, their training programmes, periodisation and competition.
There will also be a review of coaching tools by FISA’s new competitive commission member, Henk-Jan Zwolle. The brothers behind the Concept2 rowing machine and oars, Peter and Dick Dreissigacker will review the developments in oar design. Conference organiser, FISA council member John Boultbee commented that now the Olympics are over, people are much more prepared to share information.
The conference starts on 6 November and runs though to Saturday 8 November with Sunday 9 November left open for sightseeing.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Thursday 6th November 2008
During the day - Arrivals
17.00 – 21.00: Welcome Reception and Dinner
Presentation: Frederic Delaive - The History of French Rowing
Friday 7th November 2008
08.30 – 08.40: Introduction to the theme “Successful Olympic Coaches” by John Boultbee. The three coaches will focus on the four-year cycle leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games
08.40 -10.20: Aleksandr Wojciechowski (POL) - Coach of the Polish men’s quad, Beijing Olympic gold medallists
10.20 – 10.50: Coffee break
10.50 – 12.30: Dick Tonks (NZL) - Chief coach for the successful New Zealand Olympic team and coach of the New Zealand women’s double – Athens & Beijing Olympic gold medallists
12.30. – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.30: Mladen Marinovic - former Technical Director of Croatia and now professor at the University of Split - “Motivational and personality traits of junior and senior rowers”
15.30 – 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00: Jean-Raymond Peltier (FRA) – “Developing men’s sculling from potential to performance”
17.00 – 18.00: FISA update part 1.
19.15: Dinner
Saturday, 8th November 2008
08.30– 10.00: Chris O’Brien (AUS) - Crew coach for the Olympic champions in the men’s pair
10.00 – 10.30: Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.30: The three Olympic coaches - Panel interview
11.30 – 12.30: The three Olympic coaches - Questions from the floor
12.30 – 14.00: Lunch
14.00 – 15.00: Henk-Jan Zwolle (NED) - “A review of coaching tools”
15.30 – 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00: Dick and Peter Dreissigacker (USA) – “Developments in oar design and construction”
17.00 – 18.00: FISA update part 2.
19.30: Gala Dinner – including athlete and coach of the year awards.
Sunday, 9th November 2008
Sightseeing and departures
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