Results of the 1997 Rowing World Championships in Aiguebelette, France
Final Medal Standings
GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL
Germany 5 3 3 11
United States 4 1 1 6
Denmark 2 3 1 6
Italy 2 3 - 5
France 2 3 - 5
Great Britain 2 2 4 8
Australia 2 1 2 5
Romania 1 3 3 7
Canada 1 2 1 4
Switzerland 1 1 - 2
Poland 1 - - 1
Belarus 1 - - 1
Irland - 1 1 2
Norway - 1 - 1
Ukraine - - 2 2
Sweden - - 2 2
Greece - - 1 1
Russia - - 1 1
Czech Republic - - 1 1
Netherlands - - 1 1
Women's lightweight single sculls:
1. Sarah Garner (U.S.) 7:38.39
2. Benedicte Luzuy (France) 7:42.48
3. Kristina Knejp (Sweden) 7:46.98
4. Karin Stephan (Germany) 7:50.98
5. Jane Hall (Britain) 7:52.51
6. Maria Julia Garisoain (Argentina) 7:53.71
Women's lightweight coxless pairs:
1. Australia (Eliza Blair/Justine Joyce) 7:18.32
2. U.S. (Michelle Borkhuis/Linda Muri) 7:20.34
3. Britain (Malindi Myers/Caroline Hobson) 7:23.97
4. France (Laurence Bernard/Sylvie Chevalier) 7:35.72
5. Germany (Cora Zillich/Jutta Schausten) 7:48.46
6. China (Qifang Wu/Guisi He) 8:10.23
Women's lightweight double sculls:
1. Germany (Michelle Darvill/Angelika Brand) 7:00.93
2. Denmark (Anna Helleberg/Lene Andersson) 7:01.77
3. Romania (Angela Tamas/Camelia Macoviciuc) 7:03.86
4. Canada (Rachel Starr/Tracy Duncan) 7:04.77
5. U.S. (Teresa Bell/Whitney Post) 7:08.95
6. France (Christelle Fernandez/Myriam Lamolle) 7:09.45
Women's single sculls:
1. Ekaterina Khodotovitch (Belarus) 7:29.30
2. Trine Hansen (Denmark) 7:30.73
3. Maria Brandin (Sweden) 7:31.39
4. Roumiana Neykova (Bulgaria) 7:34.42
5. Karin Rutschow (Germany) 7:34.68
6. Guin Batten (Britain) 7:36.95
Women's coxless pairs:
1. Canada (Emma Robinson/Alison Korn) 7:08.09
2. Romania (Georgeta Damian/Veronica Cochela) 7:14.77
3. Russia (Vera Potchitaeva/Albina Ligatcheva) 7:17.10
4. Australia (Bronwyn Thompson/Rachael Taylor) 7:20.98
5. Denmark (Christina Rindom/Maria Vraa) 7:21.41
6. United States (Mary McCagg/Elisabeth McCagg) 7:21.85
Women's double sculls:
1. Germany (Evers Meike/Kathrin Boron) 6:51.07
2. Britain (Gillian Lindsay/Miriam Batten) 6:52.56
3. Romania (Liliana Gafencu/Viorica Susanu) 6:52.63
4. Netherlands (Pieta Van Dishoeck/Eeke Van Nes) 6:58.63
5. Switzerland (Caroline LuethI/Bernadette Wickl) 6:58.92
6. Australia (Georgina Douglas/Jane Robinson) 7:00.52
Women's coxless fours:
1. Britain 6:40.30
(Susan Walker/Alexandra Beever/
Elisabeth Henshilwood/Lisa Eyre)
2. Romania 6:41.13
(Ioana Olteanu/Doina Spircu/
Anca Tanase/Doina Ignat)
3. Germany 6:45.70
(Kristina Erbe/Pia Coenen/
Anna Coenen/Elke Hipler)
4. U.S. 6:46.08
(Emily Wood/Deanna Groark/
Katie Maloney/Sarah Jones)
5. Belarus 6:48.92
(Olga Tagaeva/Olga Miakota/
Vialantsin Skrabatun/Elena Mikoulitch)
6. Ukraine 6:49.19
(Natalya Plesovskykh/Yana Kramarenko/
Yevgeniya Andryeyeva/Tatyana Bahmat)
Women's quadruple sculls:
1. Germany 6:16.15
(Kathrin Boron/Manuela Lutze/
Jana Thieme/Kerstin Koppen)
2. Denmark 6:19.35
(Ulla Werner Hansen/Stinne Alg Petrsen/
Dorthe Pedersen/Sarah Lauritzen)
3. Ukraine 6:20.16
(Olena Ronzhina/Inna Frolova/
Svitlana Maziy/Diana Mietakhutdinova)
4. Russia 6:20.51
(Oxana Dorodnova/Margarita Bogdanova/
Larissa Merk/Urina Fedotova)
5. Belarus 6:26.64
(Natlia Lavrinenko/Alexandra Pankina/
Galina Avdeichuk/Natalia Stasiuk)
6. Canada 6:28.18
(Maria Maunder/Jennifer Browett/
Theresa Luke/Diane O'Grady)
Women's coxed eight:
1. Romania 6:02.40
2. Canada 6:07.18
3. Britain 6:10.00
4. Belarus 6:12.72
5. Germany 6:14.24
6. United States 6:15.58
Men's lightweight single sculls:
1. Karsten Nielsen (Denmark) 6:57.16
2. Michael Baenninger (Switzerland) 6:59.62
3. Tomas Kacobsky (Czech Republic) 7:00.92
4. Robert Tucker (U.S.) 7:01.38
5. Wolfgang Sigl (Austria) 7:08.01
6. Pepijn Aardewijn (Netherlands) 7:11.16
Men's lightweight coxless pairs:
1. Switzerland (Mathias Binder/Benedikt Schmidt) 6:32.81
2. Ireland (Neville Maxwell/Anthony O'Connor) 6:33.51
3. Denmark (Jeppe Kollat-Jensen/Jacob Ojvind Nielsen) 6:34.11
4. France (Sebastien Bel/Henri-Pierre Dall'Acqua) 6:39.34
5. Sweden (Tobias Elgh/Leif Johansson) 6:42.22
6. Hungary (Ferenc Weller/Gergely Kokas) 6:47.24
Men's lightweight double sculls:
1. Poland (Tomasz Kucharski/Robert Sycz) 6:14.57
2. Italy (Leonardo Pettinari/Michelangelo Crispi) 6:15.98
3. Germany (Ingo Eurler/Bernhard Ruhling) 6:18.38
4. Switzerland (Michael and Markus Gier) 6:18.59
5. Australia (Anthony Edwards/Gary Lynagh) 6:21.17
6. Spain (Juan Carlos Saez/Jose Maria de Marco) 6:25.26
Men's lightweight coxless fours:
1. Denmark 5:54.35
(Thomas Ebert/Thomas Poulsen/
Eskild Ebbesen/Victor Feddersen)
2. France 5:54.91
(Frederic Pinon/Yves Hocde/
Laurent Porchier/Xavier Dorfmann)
3. Germany 5:57.87
(Roland Handle/Martin Weis/
Jan Herzog/Markus Mielke)
4. Italy 6:02.16
(Andrea Re/Carlo Grande/
Carlo Gaddi/Pasquale Marigliano)
5. U.S. 6:04.43
(Eric Den Besten/Kevin Cotter/
Paul Teti/William Carlucci)
6. Russia 6:06.75
(Serguei Boukreev/Alexander Ziuzin/
Andrei Chevel/Dmitri Kartachov)
Men's lightweight coxed eight:
1. Australia 5:40.00
2. Britain 5:40.03
3. Canada 5:40.91
4. Italy 5:41.28
5. Germany 5:42.68
6. United States 5:44.89
Men's single sculls:
1. James Koven (U.S.) 6:44.86
2. Andre Willms (Germany) 6:47.49
3. Gregory Searle (Britain) 6:47.57
4. Iztok Cop (Slovenia) 6:49.64
5. Vaclav Chalupa (Czech Republic) 6:49.82
6. Ibrahim Aly (Egypt) 7:02.07
Men's coxed pairs:
1. United States 6:56.30
(Scott Fentress/Jordan Irving/
cox: Nicholas Anderson)
2. Australia 6:56.36
(Nicholas McDonald-Crowley/Dacid Cameron/
David Colvin)
3. Greece 6:57.62
(Konstantin Kariotis/Giorgios Fotou/
Labros Rizos)
4. Italy 7:01.97
(Pasqauale Panzarino/Gioacchino Gascone/
Vicenzo di Palma)
5. Ukraine 7:02.04
(Yevgen Sharonin/Roman Grynevich/
Ruslan Kropta)
6. Romania 7:09.31
(Gheorghe Parvan/Dorel Vasi Nastacan/
Marin Gheorghe)
Men's coxless pairs:
1. France (Michel Andrieux/Jean-Christophe Rolland) 6:27.69
2. Italy (Mattia Trombetta/Lorenzo Carboncini) 6:31.51
3. United States (Adam Holland/Ted Murphy) 6:32.10
4. Canada (Philip Graham/Henry Hering) 6:33.00
5. Britain (Robert Thatcher/Benedict Hunt-Davis) 6:42.20
6. Norway (Halvor Lande/Sture Bjorvig) 6:42.95
Men's double sculls:
1. Germany (Stephan Volkert/Andreas Hajek) 6:13.35
2. Norway (Kjetil Undset/Steffen Torseth) 6:14.98
3. Australia (Marcus Free/Duncan Free) 6:16.05
4. Italy (Luca Vascotto/Nicola Sartori) 6:17.95
5. Poland (Marek Kolbowicz/Adam Korol) 6:19.62
6. Belgium (Tim Symoens/Bjorn Hendrickx) 6:31.85
Men's Coxed Fours
1. France 6:04.17
2. Italy 6:05.98
3. Britain 6:09.80
4. USA 6:14.55
5. Croatia 6:15.34
6. Turkey 6:18.13
Men's coxless fours:
1. Britain 5:52.40
(James Cracknell/Steve Redgrave/
Timothy Foster/Matthew Pinsent)
2. France 5:56.34
(Daniel Fauche/Gilles Bosquet/
Bertrand Vecten/Olivier Moncelet)
3. Romania 5:57.10
(Cornel Newtoc/Dorin Alupei/
Claudiu Maurin/Florian Tudor)
4. Slovenia 5:57.53
(Jani Klemencic/Sadik Mujkic/
Denis Zvegelj/Milan Jansa)
5. Italy 5:57.67
(Riccardo Dei Rossi/Marco Penna/
Valter Molea/Raffaello Leonardo)
6. Germany 5:59.32
(Stefan Heinze/Uwe Steenblovk/
Stefan Forster/Kai Horl)
Men's quadruple sculls:
1. Italy 5:42.50
(Giovanni Calabrese/Rossano Galtarossa/
Agostino Abbagnale/Alessandro Corona)
2. Germany 5:45.88
(Jens Burow/Marco Geisler/
Marcel Hacker/Stefan Roehnert)
3. Ukraine 5:46.11
(Olexander Marchenko/Alexander Zaskalko/
Oleg Lykov/Leonid Chaposhnikov)
4. Austria 5:48.31
(Raphael Hartl/Andreas Nader/
Horst Nussbaumer/Norbert Lambing)
5. Switzerland 5:49.50
(Simon Stuerm/Rene Benguerel/
Michael Erdlen/Andreas Bihrer)
6. France 5:49.68
(Yvan Deslavier/Frederic Kowal/
Mario Vera/Samuel Barathay)
Men's coxed eight:
1. United States 5:27.20
2. Romania 5:27.76
3. Australia 5:28.14
4. Britain 5:29.78
5. Germany 5:30.59
6. Russia 5:30.84