Women’s Pair (W2-) – Repechage

by FISA on 22 Aug 2006 The first of two repechages featured current World Champions Nicky Coles and Juliette Haigh of New Zealand.

Coles and Haigh have stuttered this season but today they made a steady 35 stroke rate look easy. Overtaking Romania Coles and Haigh continued to advance their lead with Denmark (Majbrit Nielsen and Fie Graugaard) being the major threat to Romania’s second qualifying spot. In the final sprint the New Zealanders had enough of a lead to hold on to first with Demark and Romania sprinting for survival. Nielsen and Graugaard pulled it off. New Zealand and Denmark advance to the final.

Repechage two opened with Megan Cooke and Anna Mickelson of the United States at the head of the field. The versatile Mickelson comes to the pair with an Olympic silver medal from the eight and world championship experience in the quad. This year Mickelson, along with Cooke, are racing in the eight as well as the pair. The Netherlands’ Annemarieke van Rumpt and Annemiek de Haan set themselves up as the closest threat to Cooke and Mickelson’s lead and pushed the American duo to the line. Both boats advance to the final.

After the race Cooke commented on rowing in two events: 'It's awesome. Our training program sets us up for physical improvements every 2k we go down we get stronger. So it’s nice to do that.'

Repechage 1

Result  World Cup World Rowing Championships 2006, Eton - Race 77: W2-  Repechage 1
Boat progression: 1-2->FA, 3..->FB
Rank	Boat	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	Finish	Lane
1	NZL	1:43.82  (2)	3:29.78  (1)	5:17.48  (1)	7:06.46	3
Juliette HAIGH, Nicky COLES
2	DEN	1:45.48  (4)	3:33.90  (4)	5:22.49  (3)	7:08.96	5
Majbrit NIELSEN, Fie GRAUGAARD
3	ROM	1:43.48  (1)	3:31.16  (2)	5:20.71  (2)	7:09.13	2
Rodica FLOREA, Ioana PAPUC
4	CHN	1:44.16  (3)	3:33.61  (3)	5:25.48  (4)	7:13.90	4
Fei YU, Yan YANG
5	GBR	1:47.23  (5)	3:39.24  (5)	5:33.08  (5)	7:25.21	1
Baz MOFFAT, Jessica-Jane EDDIE
Key to terms: DNA=Data Not Available DNF=Did Not Finish DNS=Did Not Start DSQ=Disqualified EXC=Excluded BUW=Boat Under Weight

Repechage 2

Result  World Cup World Rowing Championships 2006, Eton - Race 78: W2-  Repechage 2
boat progression: 1-2->FA, 3..->FB
Rank	Boat	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	Finish	Lane
1	USA	1:43.33  (1)	3:30.79  (1)	5:18.82  (1)	7:04.95	2
Megan COOKE, Anna MICKELSON
2	NED	1:45.03  (3)	3:32.79  (2)	5:19.33  (2)	7:05.83	4
Annemarieke VAN RUMPT, Annemiek DE HAAN
3	AUS	1:46.00  (4)	3:34.26  (3)	5:23.47  (3)	7:11.02	3
Emily MARTIN, Sarah HEARD
4	BLR	1:44.19  (2)	3:35.78  (4)	5:27.59  (4)	7:13.39	1
Tatsiana NARELIK, Alina MAKHNEVA
Key to terms: DNA=Data Not Available DNF=Did Not Finish DNS=Did Not Start DSQ=Disqualified EXC=Excluded BUW=Boat Under Weight