2005 BearingPoint Rowing World Cup
Stage two in Munich, Germany
A total of 551 athletes (396 men and 155 women) will take
part in the second leg of the 2005 BearingPoint Rowing World
Cup series to be held in Munich, Germany from 17 to 19 June
2005. Hailing from 36 countries the athletes will race in
240 boats.
After a wake-up call at the first BearingPoint Rowing World
Cup in Eton last month, many teams are back in the game and
have sent full crews to test the post Olympic international
waters on the famous 1972 Olympic regatta course. Some of
the top rowing nations, such as New Zealand are back on the
scene and have put together some interesting new lineups.
The New Zealand twins Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell
will be battling it out not as a crew, but as opponents in
the women’s single sculls, taking on the likes of Eton
silver medallist Mirka Knapkova from the Czech Republic, and
Russia’s Yulya Levina.
The men’s single also provides some potential excitement
as Czech Republic’s Vaclav Chalupa, in his seventeenth
international rowing season, sees himself not only up against
the usual field of top single scullers including Olaf Tufte
of Norway and Marcel Hacker of Germany, but also his country
counterpart and Eton surprise winner Ondrej Synek.
Another re-shuffle includes Athens medalist in the single
scull Rumyana Neykova of Bulgaria pairing up again in the
double sculls, as in Eton, with Miglena Markova.
As a nation it will be Germany to look out for as, with 23
crews entered in all but one boat class, and the home crowd
to encourage them, they will be up for gaining many of the
sought after BearingPoint World Cup points to bring them closer
to the overall title for the BearingPoint Rowing World Cup.
Germany is currently second behind Great Britain in the points
table after the first stage in Eton, but with an advantage
of 14 more crews entered than Great Britain it will be an
interesting match to see who is in the lead after Munich.
The points standings currently rank Great Britain 1st with
45 points, Germany 2nd with 36 points, and Czech Republic
3rd with 27 points.
In addition to the traditional racing programme featuring
the 14 Olympic boat classes as well as five International
events, this year’s Munich event will stage an exciting
sprint race between Germany’s women’s eight, 5th
in Athens, and 2004 Olympic silver medalists USA. The race
is a fundraising and awareness raising event for the Susan
G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and will take place at 13:55
CET on Sunday. You will find more information on the Komen
Foundation on www.komen.org.
Outside of Europe the finals will be transmitted live from
the www.worldrowing.com website. Within Europe various European
terrestrial channels such as BBC and ZDF will show the regatta
– see your local TV listings for more information. Eurosport
will show delayed coverage on Monday 20 June at 13.00 hrs
CET. Live scoring and results will be available throughout
the regatta on www.worldrowing.com.
Visit the official World Rowing and BearingPoint Rowing World
Cup website www.worldrowing.com, for a full list of entries,
a racing timetable as well as an extensive boat class preview.
During racing, this website will provide live scoring, interviews,
press releases, start lists and full results. Internauts from
outside of Europe will also have the possibility to follow
the finals live through the Live video streaming feature on
the site.
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