THE SPORT OF ROWING FISA 2005 DVD United States Lightweight Women’s Double 2005 World Silver Medal, Gifu Stroke Julia Nichols, Bow Renee Hykel Hykel: -5°, +25° to -25°, 0-8, 0-10, 3-10 Nichols: -5°, +35° to -20°, 0-7, 0-9, 3-10, ferryman’s finish Schubschlag, late arm break, high ratings, ticking the boat along, attacking late in the race. getting in the middle of an Abbagnale-Searle rematch.”6560 The American crew finished eighth, while the Abbagnales ended up second to the Searle brothers of Great Britain for the second straight year.6561 The Club Era Ends When Mike Porterfield rowed in the ninth-place Coxless-Four, and Tom Bohrer and Pat Manning came eighth in the coxless-pairs in Indianapolis, the balance of power in American rowing had shifted. The National Camp had become a year-round institution with permanent homes in Princeton, New Jersey and at the ARCO Olympic Training Center on Otay Lake in 6560 Moore, personal correspondence, 2010. The Abbagnale-Searle reference was to their epic struggle at the 1992 Olympics. See Chapter 133. 6561 See Chapter 133. Southern California. As the Camp began training its members in pairs, they soon came to dominate all the small-boat sweep events at the elite level in the U.S. during the 1990s and thereafter. The possibility of a private club being competitive with the National Team in fours or even pairs nearly evaporated. athletes. Ted turned his attention to other In 1996, Romania won the Olympics in Atlanta in the women’s eights, and a month later they sent their Gold Medal stern-four, including Elisabeta Lipa, 6’3” 191cm 180lb. 82kg, winner of eleven FISA championships, to contest the women’s coxless-fours event at the Worlds in Strathclyde, Scotland. Ted’s crew rowed them down in the last 500 to win. In the following decade, Ted coached twice-World Champion Lightweight 1816
