2022 World Rowing Cup III
The 2022 World Rowing Cup series will conclude in Lucerne, Switzerland with the third and final regatta in the series. This will be the last major international racing opportunity for New Zealand before the all-important 2022 World Rowing Championships in September.
More than 600 rowers from 39 nations will be competing across 17 boat classes.
A showdown in the women’s single sculls was expected between our reigning Olympic Champion Emma Twigg, the 2018 World Rowing Champion Jeanine Gmelin of Switzerland and Austria’s Olympic Bronze medallist Magdalena Lobnig. This would have been the first time the three were going to be racing each other since the A-Final in Tokyo, where Emma took home the gold medal. Unfortunately Emma had to withdraw from Henley due to illness and is now unable to race at World Cup III again due to illness.
New Zealand Olympic Champions Grace Prendergast and Kerri Williams (nee Gowler) have been dominating the women’s pair and will face Great Britain’s Esme Booth and Emily Ford for the first time. Booth and Ford took home gold at World Rowing Cup I.
In the men’s pair, Matt MacDonald and Tom Mackintosh, winners in Poznan and at Henley are also up against Great Britain with Tom George and Oliver Wynne-Griffith, winners in Belgrade taking them on.
World Cup III will be the first time we see New Zealand Lightweight Olympic class boats line up at international competition again since 2019. Jackie Kiddle was world champion in 2019, and has teamed up with Rachael Kennedy for 2022.
The draw for the heats will take place today (Thursday 7 July). The Athlete Lane Selection (ALS), tested out in Poznan for the 2022 World Rowing Cup II, will be implemented again - this will provide athletes and coaches added tactical decision making by allowing the athletes to select their lane based on their ranking from their previous race.
Racing will begin on Thursday 7 July or Friday 8 July TBC. Racing then progresses through repechages, quarterfinals, semi-finals to the finals which will be raced over two days – Saturday 9 July for the international boat classes and Sunday 10 July for all Olympic boat classes.
There will be live video streaming of the A-finals on www.worldrowing.com
Regatta information can be found here https://worldrowing.com/event/2022-world-rowing-cup-iii
Entries can be found here
NZ Team crews for World Cup III listed below:
Women’s Pair
Grace Prendergast
Kerri Williams
Men’s Pair
Matt Macdonald
Thomas Mackintosh
Men’s Double Sculls
Jack O'Leary
Jordan Parry
Women’s Four
Catherine Layburn
Phoebe Spoors
Davina Waddy
Beth Ross
Women’s Single Sculls
Kirstyn Goodger
Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls
Rachael Kennedy
Jackie Kiddle
Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls
Matthew Dunham
Christopher Stockley
Women’s Quadruple Sculls
Kristen Froude
Charlotte Spence
Kate Haines
Stella Clayton-Greene