THE SPORT OF ROWING Robert Miller / University of Washington Crew Archives, Conibear Shellhouse Klub Trud Leningrad 1958 Grand Challenge Cup Winner Bow Oleg Vasiljev 5’11” 180cm 176lb. 80kg, 2 Yury Rogozov 180lb. 82kg, 3 Yury Popov 192lb. 87kg, 4 Georgy Bruljgart 6’4” 193cm 192lb. 87kg, 5 Jaroslav Chiorstvy 190lb. 86kg, 6 Anatoly Antonov 183lb. 83kg, 7 Georgy Guschenko 187lb. 85kg, Stroke Boris Federov 185lb. 84kg, Coxswain Igor Polyakov Washington drew the Soviet Klub Trud3995 Leningrad. Historian, journalist and coach Andy Anderson: “It was largely the same crew that had rowed in the 1956 Olympics”3996 and the 1957 Henley Regatta. The Times of London: “Though the club names were different, the men were the same, and as Trud Club, Leningrad, the eight were certainly stronger than as Krasnoe Znamia3997 last year.”3998 This was actually the third trip to Henley for the stern-pair, Georgy Guschenko, a ship engineer, and Boris 3995 “Labor” in Russian. 3996 Anderson, op. cit., p. 51 3997 See Chapter 79. 3998 Superb Racing on Final Day of Henley, The Times, July 7, 1958 Federov, a carpenter.3999 They had been defeated by UBC in 1955 and Cornell in 1957. The 1958 boat behind these two athletes had been virtually intact since Melbourne, where they had failed to qualify for the four-boat Olympic final. Besides the stern-pair, 3-seat Yury Popov was a metalsmith, and the 32-year- old coxswain Igor Polyakov, a World War II veteran, was a deep-sea diver and former Soviet Army flyweight boxing champion. The other five crew members were students in Leningrad.4000 Georg Meyers: “The Russian shell was crammed with Olympic veterans, 23 to 27 years old. They had rowed the second fastest race in history at Henley in 1957, 3999 Georg N. Meyers, Meet Oleg and His Crew, The Seattle Times, July 1, 1958 4000 Ibid. 1108
