THE SPORT OF ROWING FISA 1984 Video 1984 United States Sculling Camp Men’s Quad Lucerne (Sunday) Stroke Charlie Bracken (shown), 3 Bill Purdy, 2 Sean Colgan, Bow Jack Frackelton Bracken: +5°, +40° to -15°, 0-6, 2-10, 5-10, Modern Orthodox Kernschlag Sequential to the brink of tail-shooting, late arm draw A product of post-Rosenberg Boathouse Row, Bracken’s technique relied on good extension at entry, legs only to initiate the pullthrough, and then strong back swing to the release. Behind them, everybody was within a deck at 500, and the eventual finishing margins for second, third and fourth places were pretty much set by the 1,000. Italy led the U.S. Camp by a bare half-meter with Spain a deck further back, and that’s how it ended up at the finish. Colgan: “Our quad beat the 1984 Olympic Gold Medalists with one day of practice in the boat! We only lost to East Germany, who boycotted, and Italy, who took sick in L.A.”7321 7321 Colgan, op. cit. The winning Grünau/Leipzig/Röstock/ Magdeburg GDR composite crew of bow Frank Dundr, 6’1” 186cm 196lb. 89kg, 2 Uwe Sëgling, Joachim Dreifke,7322 6’4” 192cm 209lb. 95kg, and Martin Winter, 6’4” 194cm 201lb. 91kg, contained three 1980 Olympic Gold Medalists. Dreifke and Winter had also been members of the 1983 World Silver Medal Quad. Sëgling would be part of the 1985 World Silver Medal Quad. The other Lucerne finalists besides the U.S.: Italy, Norway, France and Spain 7322 See Chapter 122. 2040
