strong row, albeit without European champions and runners-up Germany and Russia, who would have fired up the competition. Aiguebelette gave spectators a
feast of lightweight sculling, from commanding victories by China’s Wang Tiexin and Kiwi Julia Edward in the singles, to a radiant gold from home favourites and European champions, Stany Delayre and Jeremie Azou, roared home by the local crowd in the light men’s doubles. Italy’s stars Laura Milani and Elisabetta Sancassani predictably stayed away from the light women’s doubles competition, content to rest on their European and world laurels, which opened the door to Olympic champion Kat Copeland (GBR) to register her first ever world cup win with Imogen Walsh. Even more impressively, Great Britain understudies, Ellie Piggott and Charlotte Taylor, burned through Germany, China and Sweden in the last 500m to claim silver behind their teammates, which, with a singles silver for Ruth Walczak, made them the most successful squad of the regatta. The openweight sculling was no
less fast and furious. Australia’s Sally Kehoe and Olympia Aldersey fulfilled the promise of their win over world champions, Lithuania, at the Sydney regatta by beating both a very strong American duo and and the European champions from Poland. Whether they can beat Lithuania on European waters, when they meet at Lucerne or Amsterdam, remains to be seen. Lithuania’s other champion double, the M2x from the Belgrade, chose to sit Aiguebelette out, but their runners-up, Azerbaijan, were on fine form, claiming another silver. This time they battled Croatia’s new combination, brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic, who are having to do a double after a crew- mate’s injury put paid to their famous quad for this season. Sinkovic strength eventually pushed through, leaving the Azerbaijanis finding one last surge to keep second only inches ahead of the sprinting Australians. Germany’s victory in the women’s quads was unruffled, and Britain’s steadily-improving quartet had a confident win over Germany and surprise bronze medallists Canada in the men’s quads. ROW360
ABOVE Croatia’s Martin and Valent Sinkovic claim gold in the Men’s Double Sculls ahead of Lithuania and Austria.
2014 World Cup 2 (Aiguebelette) medals table RANK
COUNTRY 1st
2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
8th 9th
Great Britain New Zealand USA
13th
Germany Australia Croatia France Canada Azerbaijan China Czech Republic Denmark Austria Belarus Cuba Norway Poland
GOLD
4 4 2 1 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GOLD MEDALS Great Britain W2-, LW2x, M4-, M4x New Zealand M2-, W1x, M1x, LM4- USA W8+, M8+ Germany W4x Australia W2x Croatia M2x France LM2x
SILVER
2 0 3 3 1
0 0 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 0
BRONZE
3 1
2 1 1
0 0 1
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
TOTAL
9 5 7 5 3 1 1
2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
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