1997 World Rowing Championships

1997 World Rowing Championships
Venue	Lac d'Aiguebelette
Location	Aiguebelette-le-Lac, France
Dates	31 August to 7 September

The 26h World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 31 August to 7 September 1997 at Lac d'Aiguebelette, France.^[1] The annual week-long rowing regatta was organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation), and held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer. In non-Olympic years it is the highlight of the international rowing calendar.

Medal summary

Event:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze:	Time
Men's Events
M1x	United States Jamie Koven	6:44.86	Germany André Willms	6:47.49	Great Britain Greg Searle	6:47.57
M2x	Germany Andreas Hajek Stephan Volkert	6:13.35	Norway Steffen Størseth Kjetil Undset	6:14.98	Australia Duncan Free Marcus Free	6:16.05
M4x	Italy Agostino Abbagnale Giovanni Calabrese Alessandro Corona Rossano Galtarossa	5:42.50	Germany Jens Burow Marco Geisler Marcel Hacker Stefan Röhnert	5:45.88	Ukraine Oleh Lykov Oleksandr Marchenko Leonid Shaposhnykov Aleksandr Zazkalko	5:46.11
M2+	United States Nicholas Anderson Scott Fentress Jordan Irving (c)	6:56.30	Australia David Cameron Nick Mcdonald-Crowley David Colvin (c)	6:56.36	Greece Georgios Fotou Konstantinos Kariotis Lampros Rizos (c)	6:57.62
M2-	France Michel Andrieux Jean-Christophe Rolland	6:27.69	Italy Lorenzo Carboncini Mattia Trombetta	6:31.51	United States Adam Holland Edward Murphy	6:32.10
M4-	Great Britain James Cracknell Tim Foster Matthew Pinsent Steve Redgrave	5:52.40	France Gilles Bosquet Daniel Fauché Olivier Moncelet Bertrand Vecten	5:56.34	Romania Dorin Alupei Claudiu Marin Cornel Nemtoc Florian Tudor	5:57.10
M8+	United States Christian Ahrens Sebastian Bea Philip Henry Robert Kaehler Garrett Miller Timothy Richter Michael Wherley Robert Cummins Peter Cipollone (c)	5:27.20	Romania Valentin Robu Florin Corbeanu Viorel Talapan Florian Tudor Claudiu Marin Andrei Banica Cornel Nemtoc Dorin Alupei Marin Gheorghe (c)	5:27.76	Australia^[2] Robert Walker Geoffrey Stewart Alastair Gordon David Porzig James Stewart Daniel Burke Drew Ginn Richard Wearne David Colvin	5:28.14
LM1x	Denmark Karsten Nielsen	6:57.16	Switzerland Michael Bänninger	6:59.62	Czech Republic Tomas Kacovsky	7:00.92
LM2x	Poland Tomasz Kucharski Robert Sycz	6:14.57	Italy Michelangelo Crispi Leonardo Pettinari	6:15.98	Germany Ingo Euler Bernhard Rühling	6:18.38
LM2-	Switzerland Mathias Binder Beni Schmidt	6:32.81	Ireland Neville Maxwell Tony O'Connor	6:33.51	Denmark Jeppe Jensen Kollat Jacob Nielsen	6:34.11
LM4x	Italy Stefano Basalini Paolo Pittino Franco Sancassani Massimo Guglielmi	5:50.68	Germany Markus Baumann Oliver Ibielski Alexander Lutz Frank Mager	5:52.90	Ireland John Armstrong Neal Byrne Brendan Dolan Emmet O'Brien	5:55.04
LM8+	Australia Darren Balmforth Jon Berney Simon Burgess Alastair Isherwood Rob Mitchell Bob Richards Michael Wiseman Tim Wright Brett Hayman (c)	5:40.00	Great Britain Phil Baker James Brown Jim Hartland Alex Henshilwood Jason Keys Dave Lemon Jim Mcniven Ben Webb John Deakin (c)	5:40.03	Canada Jon Beare Chris Davidson Jeff Lay Graham Mclaren Anthony Shearing Ben Storey Bryan Thompson Edward Winchester Chris Taylor (c)	5:40.91
Women's Events
W1x	Belarus Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch	7:29.30	Denmark Trine Hansen	7:30.73	Sweden Maria Brandin	7:31.39
W2x	Germany Kathrin Boron Meike Evers	6:51.07	Great Britain Miriam Batten Gillian Lindsay	6:48.82	Romania Liliana Gafencu Viorica Susanu	6:50.16
W4x	Germany Kathrin Boron Kerstin Köppen Manuela Lutze Jana Thieme	6:16.15	Denmark Ulla Hansen Werner Sarah Lauritzen Dorthe Pedersen Stinne Petersen	6:19.35	Ukraine Inna Frolova Svitlana Mazii Dina Miftakhutdinova Olena Morozova-Ronzhina	6:20.16
W2-	Canada Alison Korn Emma Robinson	7:08.09	Romania Veronica Cochelea Georgeta Damian	7:14.77	Russia Albina Ligatcheva Vera Pochitaeva	7:17.10
W4-	Great Britain Alex Beever Lisa Eyre Elizabeth Henshilwood Sue Walker	6:40.30	Romania Doina Ignat Ioana Olteanu Doina Spircu - Craciun Anca Tanase	6:41.13	Germany Anna Coenen Pia Coenen Kristina Erbe Elke Hipler	6:45.70
W8+	Romania Georgeta Damian Viorica Susanu Ioana Olteanu Angela Cazac Liliana Gafencu Veronica Cochelea Doina Ignat Anca Tanase Elena Georgescu (c)	6:02.40	Canada Buffy-Lynne Williams-Alexander Laryssa Biesenthal Jessica Gonin Alison Korn Emma Robinson Dorota Urbaniak Kristen Wall Kubet Weston Lesley Thompson-Willie (c)	6:07.18	Great Britain Alex Beever Lisa Eyre Katherine Grainger Elizabeth Henshilwood Elise Laverick Sue Walker Rachel Woolf Francesca Zino Suzie Ellis (c)	6:10.00
LW1x	United States Sarah Garner	7:38.39	France Bénédicte Dorfman-Luzuy	7:42.48	Sweden Kristina Knejp Christensson	7:46.98
LW2x	Germany Angelika Brand Michelle Darvill	7:00.93	Denmark Lene Andersson Anna Helleberg	7:01.77	Romania Angela Alupei Camelia Macoviciuc	7:03.86
LW2-	Australia Eliza Blair Justine Joyce	7:18.32	United States Michelle Borkhuis Linda Muri	7:20.34	Great Britain Caroline Hobson Malindi Myers	7:23.97
LW4x	Germany Christiane Brand Nicole Faust Christine Morawitz Gunda Reimers	6:36.63	Canada Nathalie Benzing Brie Ellard Renata Troc Samara Walbohm	6:37.16	Netherlands Hedi Poot Brechtje van Eijck Sigrid Winkelhuis Floortje van Eijck	6:39.38

Medals table

Place	Nation	01 !	02 !	03 !	Total
1	Germany	5	3	2	10
2	United States	4	1	1	6
3	Great Britain	2	2	3	7
4	Italy	2	2	0	4
5	Australia	2	1	2	5
6	Romania	1	3	3	7
7	Denmark	1	3	1	5
8	Canada	1	2	1	4
9	France	1	2	0	3
10	Switzerland	1	1	0	2
11	Belarus	1	0	0	1
11	Poland	1	0	0	1
13	Ireland	0	1	1	2
14	Norway	0	1	0	1
15	Sweden	0	0	2	2
15	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
17	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
Total		22	22	22	66

References

↑ "1997 World Rowing Championships". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
↑ "1997 Aiguebelette World Championships - Australian Rowing History". Retrieved 19 March 2016.

External links

Results on World Rowing website

World Rowing Championships

Editions	Lucerne 1962 Bled 1966 St. Catharines 1970 Lucerne 1974 Nottingham 1975 Villach 1976 Amsterdam 1977 Cambridge 1978 Bled 1979 Hazewinkel 1980 Munich 1981 Lucerne 1982 Duisburg 1983 Montreal 1984 Hazewinkel 1985 Nottingham 1986 Copenhagen 1987 Milan 1988 Bled 1989 Tasmania 1990 Vienna 1991 Montreal 1992 Račice 1993 Indianapolis 1994 Tampere 1995 Motherwell 1996 Aiguebelette 1997 Cologne 1998 St. Catharines 1999 Zagreb 2000 Lucerne 2001 Seville 2002 Milan 2003 Banyoles 2004 Kaizu, Gifu 2005 Dorney 2006 Munich 2007 Ottensheim 2008 Poznań 2009 Cambridge 2010 Bled 2011 Plovdiv 2012 Chungju 2013 Amsterdam 2014 Aiguebelette 2015 Rotterdam 2016 Sarasota 2017 Plovdiv 2018 Ottensheim 2019

Venues	Rotsee (1962) Lake Bled (1966) Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course (1970) Rotsee (1974) Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre (1975) Lake Ossiach (1976) Bosbaan (1977) Lake Karapiro (1978) Lake Bled (1979) Hazewinkel (1980) Oberschleißheim Regatta Course (1981) Rotsee (1982) Wedau (1983) Notre Dame Island (1984) Hazewinkel (1985) Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre (1986) Copenhagen (1987) Idroscalo (1988) Lake Bled (1989) Lake Barrington (Tasmania) (1990) Vienna (1991) Notre Dame Island (1992) Račice (Litoměřice District) (1993) Eagle Creek Park (1994) Kaukajärvi (1995) Strathclyde Country Park (1996) Lac d'Aiguebelette (1997) Fühlinger See (1998) Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course (1999) Jarun (2000) Rotsee (2001) Guadalquivir (2002) Idroscalo (2003) Lake of Banyoles (2004) Nagaragawa International Regatta Course (2005) Dorney Lake (2006) Oberschleißheim Regatta Course (2007) Ottensheim (2008) Lake Malta (2009) Lake Karapiro (2010) Lake Bled (2011) Plovdiv (2012) Tangeum Lake (2013) Bosbaan (2014) Lac d'Aiguebelette (2015) Willem-Alexanderbaan (2016) Nathan Benderson Park (2017) Plovdiv (2018) Ottensheim (2019)

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