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How to Follow the World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals
23 September 2021For the second time, the World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals will be held, now on the beach of Praia da Torre in Oeiras, Portugal, which HTBS wrote about on 16 September. This exciting...
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Ondřej Synek Hangs Up his Sculls
Ondřej Synek says good-bye. Photo: Ondřej Synek website. 24 September 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Ondřej Synek is retiring. Yesterday, Czech sculler Ondřej Synek, a month shy of his 39th birthday,...
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2021 Open Baltic Cup Regatta
Trakai is a historic city and lake resort 28 kilometres (17 miles) west of the capital Vilnius. The town is surrounded by four lakes, including Lake Galve, where the weekend races will take place. In...
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The Distress Signal
26 September 2021 By Philip Kuepper What decided itwas how we looked at it.Were we bailing water from the boat,or boat from the water? (29 August 2021)
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Results World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals
In the Junior Women’s Solo (CJW1x) of the 2021 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals, Hela Belhaje Mohamed (on the right) of Tunisia won over Zuzanna Sarek of France (on the left). Overall, great...
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A Golden Age Captured in Monochrome
A composite picture of 1908 from a photo album belonging to the man on the left, Angus Gillan (1885-1981). On the right is his longtime friend, Alister Kirby (1886-1917). Together, they won many...
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Book Review: The Hammers
29 September 2021 By Peter Mallory Rowing historian and writer Peter Mallory reviews The Hammers by Hovey Kemp, who rowed four years (1972-1976) at Harvard. I recently started reading a new...
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2021 World Rowing Ordinary Congress
World Rowing President Jean-Christophe Rolland 25 October 2021 The agenda papers for the 2021 World Rowing Ordinary Congress have been released and with them the candidates for the positions on the...
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Allan Seager’s Joy on the River Isis
A bump – not at “Toggers” but at Eights Week on the River Isis, by William Barnes Wollen, 1891. 29 October 2021 Göran R BuckhornExactly 59 years ago today, author Allan Seager had a hilarious story...
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The Triumph of the Amateurs Book Talk in New Haven
30 October 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Not to be missed! Yale University Bookstore in New Haven has a few spots left for William “Bill” Lanouette’s book talk about his The Triumph of the Amateurs on 2...
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What Brought a Smile to His Face
31 October 2021 By Philip Kuepper Inconceivably, a leafset him to thinkingof the shell he rowed,when still a boy, the leaf floating past himas he stood looking at the river,a leaf facing up,like the...
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Coffee Table Book on Historic German Boathouses
1 November 2021By Stephan Ploke Three years ago, Tim Koch argued on this site that “German Boathouses were not Jerry Built”. Those who have a deeper interest in the topic might be interested in the...
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Kjetil Borch on Anti-Doping and Fairness
Kjetil Borch, Olympic silver medallist in the single sculls at the Tokyo Games in July this summer. Photo: Martin Slottmo AP. 1 November 2021 By Kjetil Borch Earlier today, Kjetil Borch, Norwegian...
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Fizz in a Can
World Cup gold medallist with the can, Kjetil Borch (in the middle), silver medallist Sverre Nielsen (on the left) and bronze medallist Oliver Zeidler (on the right). Photo from Sverre Nielsen’s...
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Callum Turner to Play Joe Rantz in “The Boys” Movie
The British actor Callum Turner will play Joe Rantz in George Clooney’s movie The Boys in the Boat. 3 November 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Deadline.com came with some breaking news on 1 November that the...
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Article on Boat Race Posters Removed
A Boat Race image from 1879. 3 November 2021By Göran R Buckhorn Regrettably, due to copyright issues, HTBS has had to remove Tim Koch’s three-part article “Underground Rowing”, which showed the London...
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Last Chance to Nominate the Best for 2021
Photo: FISA/World Rowing 4 November 2021 World Rowing gives everyone a last chance to nominate candidates to the organisation’s 2021 awards.On World Rowing’s website it reads: Nominations for the 2021...
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The Fastest Eight in the World
Photo: olympic.org.nz 5 November 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn One of the highlights of the 2020 Olympic rowing in Tokyo this summer was the final of the men’s eight with the Kiwis crossing the finish line...
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Time to Grow a Mo!
This is the 4,000th article on HTBS! Two professionals and their mos – American Charles Courtney (l) and Canadian Ned Hanlan (r). 6 November 2021 By Göran R Buckhorn Time to Groom and Grow a Mo....
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The Path Laid
7 November 2021 By Philip Kuepper Have you noticed,when you row,the water will not stay putwhere your blades have swept it.It flows directly back where it wasinto the path you are rowing. How like a...
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