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Newcomer Julia Richter Has Sucess At World Rowing Under 23 Championships
Feb. 19, 2009
Women's Rowing Newcomer Julia Richter had quite an impressive summer competing in the World Rowing Under 23 Championships. Here is a look at her accomplishments with snippets from an article found on worldrowing.com. The wind shifted to a gusty cross-tail wind for the afternoon of A Finals at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Brandenburg, Germany. Close finishes and gold medals to Germany kept the 4,000 plus strong audience on their feet. As the day progressed the tail wind became less pronounced, still the lane change of the morning remained with the best crews getting to race in lanes five and six. Podium of the Senior B Women's Single Sculls at the 2008 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Brandenburg, Germany: Kristina Stiller from Great Britain (L, silver), Julia Richter from Germany (gold) and Katalin Szabo from Hungary (R, bronze).Women's Single Sculls (BW1x) - Final A Julia Richter of Germany came to rowing just three years ago after getting her start in sport through swimming. She made it on to Germany's senior team last year as part of the second quad and at 19 she is a future shining light for German rowing. Today Richter got off to a fast start in the woman's single and went out to a full boat length lead over the field by the time she'd reached the 1000m mark. Kristina Stiller of Great Britain gave it her best to try and stay with Richter, but Richter was able to underrate Stiller and stay ahead. Hungary's Katalin Szabo was third in 2007 and fourth in 2006. Could she get ahead of Stiller and make second this year? The gap was too large. Germany scores their first gold medal of the regatta, Great Britain takes silver and Hungary earns her second bronze medal. Results: GER, GBR, HUN, BUL, EST, USA Gold: Julia Richter (GER)
Silver: Kristina STILLER (GBR) "The competition was very fast. It made the race go by very quickly." Bronze: Katalin SZABO (HUN) |
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