Solo Irish rower, Jamie Carr, has successfully completed the 2022 Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge. It took him 53 days, 1 hour and 12 minutes to row the 3000 miles, alone, from the Canary Islands to Antigua. “There is absolutely nothing on this earth compared to what I just went through,” said Carr who arrived in English Harbour, on the 3rd […]
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Mixed Up
An exploration of mixed-gender events and inclusive rowing formats. The ultimate objective of crew rowing is absolute unity of motion. Daniel James Brown describes it best in The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, “All were merged into one smoothly working machine; they were in […]
Ten Questions with Christine Cavallo
Sitting in the two seat of OUWBC’s Blue Boat is former US lightweight Christine Cavallo. Cavallo, 26, is a Stanford alumni and represented USRowing at the 2018 and 2019 World Rowing Championships, and trialed for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic team but just missed selection for the lightweight double. Ahead of making her Boat Race debut […]
Swinging by the Stars and Stripes
A physical therapist once told me that many Olympic athletes are elite compensators. He meant that we are incredibly good at performing sub-optimal movement patterns, developing epic strength in those patterns, and then winning races using less-than-ideal skills. When you win using poor patterns, those patterns are reinforced because athletes will attribute their success to […]
Number Crunching
Race data analysis of the U19 and U23 World Rowing Championships Variable weather conditions throughout the U19 and U23 World Rowing Championships in Varese, Italy (even within a single day) makes it difficult to compare the absolute rowing speeds across different categories. The average winners’ speed in 12 comparable Olympic boat types (except lightweights) was […]
Pleading Innocent – Row360
The Czech Rowing Association (CVS) reacts to Radiožurnál journalist Artur Janoušek. CVS refute any wrongdoing regarding their boat buying practices, and have filed a complaint with the Czech Radio Board. In a statement seen by Row360 CVS refute the stated price differences and welcome the National Sports Agency investigation. They believe the ongoing investigation will […]
Row360 | Jürgen Grobler
In an exclusive broadcast by the Rowers Conference organised by Ludum, Jürgen Grobler, who is one of the most successful Olympic coaches of all-time, spoke to World Rowing commentator Martin Cross. Coming six months after his retirement in August last year, Jürgen openly discusses his coaching philosophy, career highlights and selection decisions. It is a fascinating […]
Checking Czech Cheques
The Czech Rowing Association (CVS) faces an investigation from their National Sports Agency, after the national news outlet, Radiožurnál, revealed suspicious boat buying practices. From 2019 to 2021, CVS paid CZK 1.8 million (approximately USD 81,100 or GBP 66,000) more for Empacher and Filippi boats than market rates, compared with contemporary official corporate boat manufacture […]