CHUNGJU, South Korea - With the results of the 2012 Olympic Games in the record books, a new four-year cycle has begun. Planning for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio began immediately following last summer’s Games, where the U.S. medaled in three events.
The women’s eight won its second consecutive Olympic gold, and both the women’s quadruple sculls and men’s four won bronze. The focus shifted toward using resources to win more medals.
To accomplish this, USRowing turned to experienced international and collegiate coach Curtis Jordan. Jordan had been serving as the head coach for Australia’s New South Wales Institute of Sports and coached the Australian men’s eight to a sixth-place finish in London. He has spent many years with and around the U.S. team, including four stints coaching U.S. Olympic team boats.
Jordan had coached the U.S. men’s four in 1988 and 1992, the men’s four and bronze-medal lightweight four in 1996 and the lightweight men’s four in 2000. Upon being named the organization’s high performance director, he put together a plan that would focus on directly funding only eight boats – the women’s pair, women’s double sculls, lightweight women’s double sculls, women’s quadruple sculls, lightweight men’s four, men’s four and men’s and women’s eights.
The remainder of the 21 boats classes would be contested at world championships and the 14 that raced in Olympic competition would receive funding based on performance. The plan reached out to many rowing clubs across the country to fund, train and produce world-class athletes for selection to the team through trials.
Jordan’s plan ensures that boats from outside the system, as well as their athletes and coaches, would be added to the supported list based on demonstrated success during the four-year Olympic cycle leading to Rio 2016.
A top-six finish in international competition would result in funding and the list of supported boats would be added to it, or subtracted from it, based on performance.
As a result, the supported boats were selected during camps held at the USRowing training sites in Oklahoma City, Okla., and in Princeton, N.J. The remaining crews were selected during trials racing.
In addition to limiting the boats that would be funded, Jordan replaced outgoing men’s head coach Tim McLaren with two young, highly experienced coaches in Luke McGee and Bryan Volpenhein.
Volpenhein, a three-time Olympian and 2004 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s eight, was already coaching for the U.S., and led the lightweight men’s four to Olympic qualification and an eighth-place overall finish at the 2012 Olympic Games.
He also coached the U.S. men’s pair that finished eighth in London. Volpenhein, already serving as Director of the Oklahoma City High Performance Center, was hired to coach the men’s four and the lightweight men’s four at the USRowing Training Center – Oklahoma City.
McGee, a 2001 Brown University and 2002 Oxford University graduate, medaled with U.S. national team crews at the junior, under 23 and senior levels and won a gold medal at the 2003 World Rowing Championships in Milan in the men's four with coxswain.
McGee joined the coaching staff at Brown in 2004 and then took over as freshmen coach at the University of Washington in 2007. In five years at Washington, McGee achieved a tremendous level of success with the freshmen program including gold medals in 2009, 2010 and 2012 and five consecutive team national championships. Most recently, McGee coached the U.S. under 23 men's eight to a gold medal at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Trakai, Lithuania.
McGee coaches the U.S. men’s eight at the USRowing Training Center – Princeton and serves as the U.S. men's under 23 coordinator.
On the women’s side, USRowing retained Tom Terhaar, arguably one of the top women’s head coaches in the world. Terhaar has been the women’s head coach since 2001 and has made three trips to the Olympics. His women’s eight has won one silver and two gold Olympic medals. His eight has won every world championship since 2006 and his crews have amassed a total of 24 medals at the Olympic Games and world championships.
In 2013, the U.S. will be represented in all 27 available events including the 21 traditional boat classes and five Para-Rowing, or adaptive events.
Being that 2012 was an Olympic year, this is the first World Rowing Championships contested since 2011, when it was held on Lake Bled in Slovenia. This year’s event is scheduled for August 25 to September 1 in Chungju, South Korea.
This is the first time the event has been held in South Korea and only the second time contested in Asia. The 2005 World Rowing Championships were held in Gifu, Japan.
The regatta has attracted a record number of entered nations with 73. The previous record for the event was 68 in Bled, Slovenia. There will be 948 athletes in 384 boats competing.
Racing will be held at Chungju’s newly constructed Tangeum International Regatta Course and will feature 14 Olympic boat classes, eight international events and five Para-Rowing events. Formerly referred to as adaptive rowing, the Para-Rowing events will see a new boat class, the legs, trunk and arms double sculls. Another familiar addition to the program is the women’s four, a boat class which was reinstated for 2013.
Of the 73 countries entered, the United States has the largest number of entries. No other country is competing in all 27 featured boat classes. Korea has 21 crews entered. The location has attracted entries from several Asian nations, including India, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia.
Four nations, including Qatar, Namibia, Libya, Ivory Coast and Vanuatu are competing for the first time.
As is usually the case in international rowing, the largest fields are in the men’s and women’s singles sculls. There are 27 men competing, including all three London medalists – New Zealand’s Mahe Drysdale, Ondrej Synek from the Czech Republic and Great Britain’s Alan Campbell.
Among the 24 women entered in the single will be Olympic and world champion Mirka Knapkova from the Czech Republic, and Olympians Kim Crow from Australia and New Zealand’s Emma Twigg. Among them is the U.S. sculler Eleanor Logan, a two-time Olympic champion in the women’s eight (2008 and 2012). Logan rowed the single in international competition for the first time in the Samsung World Rowing Cup circuit, taking home two bronze medals and a silver from the final world cup stop and the world championship tune-up in Lucerne.
Lucerne served as the first time the newly configured United States team saw competition together and came away with a stunning eight medals, including gold and a world best time in the women’s eight, gold in the men’s eight and four, silver in the women’s single, lightweight women’s double sculls and lightweight men’s pair, and bronze in the women’s double sculls and women’s pair.
Nine of the 31 athletes that medaled were racing internationally at the senior level for the first time in their rowing careers. In the women’s eight, only one athlete from the boat that won in London was among the crew.
The United States will have crews competing in the men’s single sculls, women's single sculls, lightweight men's single sculls, lightweight women's single sculls, men's double sculls, women's double sculls, lightweight men's double sculls, lightweight women's double sculls, men's quadruple sculls, women's quadruple sculls, lightweight men's quadruple sculls, lightweight women's quadruple sculls, men's pair, women's pair, men's pair with coxswain, lightweight men's pair, men's four, women's four, lightweight men's four, men's eight, women's eight, lightweight men's eight, arms and shoulders men's single sculls, arms and shoulders women's single sculls, trunk and arms mixed double sculls, legs, trunk and arms mixed double sculls and legs, trunk and arms four with coxswain.
The 87-person roster includes 17 Olympians and four Paralympians, including Will Daly, Anthony Fahden, Susan Francia, Kristin Hedstrom, Grant James, Ross James, Andrew Johnson, Rob Jones, Kara Kohler, Megan Kalmoe, Steve Kasprzyk, Caroline Lind, Esther Lofgren, Eleanor Logan, Oksana Masters, Meghan Musnicki, Thomas Peszek, Robin Prendes, Henrik Rummel, Ellen Tomek and Dorian Weber.
Men’s Single Sculls
Stephen Whelpley (Moquon, Wis.) has been vying for the spot on the U.S. National team for years, and has always seemed to miss the spot by one place, by a few split seconds.
Thirty-year-old Whelpey is not new to the sport, or to fast racing, however. He came in second to John Graves in the men’s single at the first National Selection Regatta of 2013 and won the event at 2013 USRowing National Championships. His competitor, Graves, is now his teammate, competing in the men’s double sculls.
“This has been a long time coming,” said Whelpley, following his trials win. “I’m an older guy at trials, but by no means too old. Eight years has been a long time coming. I spent the last quadrennial being the guy on the cusp, being second in a lot of situations, so it’s good to finally reap the benefits of what I’ve been doing.”
At 2013 Senior World Championships Trials in Princeton, N.J., Whelpley stood out from the crowd, finishing more than 18 seconds ahead of second-place finisher, Lenny Futterman (New York, N.Y.).
Women’s Single Sculls
A fixture on the U.S. women’s team since 2007, with a total of 14 international, senior-level medals to her credit, including two Olympic gold, Eleanor Logan (Boothbay Harbor, Maine) is set to compete in the single sculls. This year, she decided to focus her athletic skill in the single and has proven successful. In taking silver in Lucerne, she defeated Olympic champion Knapkova.
“The single is unique in that, it's only me moving the boat and therefore it has forced me to become much more aware of my body, how I apply my power and how every movement has an impact on boat speed, both good and bad,” she said after accepting her bid to the U.S. team following her bronze medal performance at the second world cup. “When it comes to racing, I plan on approaching it as I have always done in the past, and that isn't any different.”
Logan’s world championship debut in the single is going to be a must-watch event. The last U.S. woman to medal in the boat class was Michelle Guerette, who won silver at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Lightweight Men’s Single Sculls
The 2013 World Rowing Championships will be Andrew Campbell’s (New Canaan, Conn.) third senior world championship. He has medaled in the event at every level, including his most recent victory, a gold at the 2013 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Linz, Austria.
He took bronze in the event at the combined senior and junior world championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and he is well-positioned to repeat a podium performance this year.
From the 27-boat field, he will have to get through last year’s champion, Denmark’s Henrik Stephansen, and silver medalist Peter Galambos from Hungary.
Lightweight Women’s Single Sculls
Michelle Sechser (Folsom, Calif.) is new to the single in 2013 at the international level. She finished fourth in the lightweight quadruple sculls last year in Bulgaria. In 2009, she took gold in the senior lightweight single sculls, intermediate lightweight single sculls and senior lightweight quadruple sculls at USRowing Club National Championships.
She will have stiff competition across the 23-boat field and will face the silver and bronze medalists from London – Austria’s Michaela Taupe-Traer and Alena Kryasheyenka, among others.
Men’s Double Sculls
John Graves (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Benjamin Dann (Pound Ridge, N.Y.) will represent the U.S. in the men’s double sculls. This is Graves’ first appearance at a senior world championship, but not his first taste of international racing. He finished ninth in the single at the 2013 Samsung World Rowing Cup #3, 11th in the lightweight single sculls at the 2010 World Rowing Under 23 Championships and 13th in the pair at the 2009 World Rowing Under 23 Championships.
Dann also has under 23 national team experience under his belt. He raced the single at the 2011 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in Amsterdam.
Historically, the double is a highly contested event and the rookie senior team representatives for the U.S. will face entries from all but one of the top six 2012 Olympic crews among the 18 crews entered.
Women’s Double Sculls
Ellen Tomek (Flushing, Mich.) and Meghan O’Leary (Baton Rouge, La.) won bronze in Lucerne earlier this year. While O’Leary is a newcomer to the senior team, Tomek is an experienced international sculler. She rowed the event and finished fifth in the 2008 Olympic Games and finished sixth in the 2009 World Rowing Championships.
The U.S. finished sixth in London and will again be facing a fast field in Chungju from the 15 countries entered, which includes two crews from countries that finished in the top six in London, Great Britain and New Zealand, but both countries will go to the line with new crews.
Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls
With both crew members new to the U.S. senior team, Nick Trojan (Los Alamitos, Calif.) and Austin Meyer (Cohoes, N.Y.) won’t be intimidated by international competition. Trojan represented the U.S. twice in the lightweight double sculls in the under 23 world championships and once as a junior. Meyer also rowed the event at the under 23 level and was in the lightweight eight at the 2011 World Rowing Championships, finishing fifth.
The U.S. did not qualify a crew in the event at the 2012 Olympic Games. The U.S. last medaled in the event in 1990 when it won gold at the world championships. They will face entries from three of the countries that finished in the top six in London in the 24-boat field.
Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls
Kate Bertko (Oakland, Calif.) is new to the event in 2013, but not to the world championships. She is a veteran of the U.S. women’s team, having rowed in three world championships, taking 11th in 2011, 10th in 2010 and wining silver in the quadruple sculls in 2009. Her doubles partner, Kristin Hedstrom (Concord, Mass.) is a 2012 Olympian and finished 11th in the same event.
They have had success as a crew this spring, winning the selection regatta and then qualifying in world cup competition, winning silver in Lucerne and bronze in the second world cup.
There are 18 entries in the event, many of them new combinations. Germany, however, is returning Lena Muller and Anja Noske, who finished sixth in London.
Men’s Quadruple Sculls
Derek Johnson (Hillsborough, Calif.), Hans Struzyna (Kirkland, Wash.), Andrew Gallagher (Phoenix, Ariz.) and Ryan Shelton (Wrightwood, Calif.) qualified for the men’s quad by winning the world championship trials with California Rowing Club. Previously, this event had been selected through camp, but under the new system, is a trials boat.
Last year in London, the U.S. suffered a race-killing crab in the first 500 meters in the repechage and finished last overall, having been eliminated from competition in that race. Germany won the event in London and is returning three of the four crew members from its boat for the world championships. The 2012 silver medalist Croatia is coming back complete in the 18-boat field.
Women’s Quadruple Sculls
With a very experienced lineup, Megan Kalmoe (St. Croix Falls, Wis.), Esther Lofgren (Newport Beach, Calif.), Kara Kohler (Clayton, Calif.) and Susan Francia (Abington, Pa.) all come to the championships with Olympic medals.
The U.S. took bronze in London in the women’s quad and two of the crew, Kalmoe and Kohler, were in the boat. They are joined by Francia, a two-time Olympic gold medalist from the women’s eight, and Lofgren, who was in the eight that won gold in London.
This has been a strong event for the U.S. under Terhaar, having won silver in 2011. Three countries that rowed in the Olympic final in London will send crews to the line, including Germany, which finished second, fourth-place Austria, and sixth-place Great Britain. There are 11 boats entered.
Lightweight Men’s Quadruple Sculls
Having won the event at 2013 U.S. World Championship trials, Andrew Quinn (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.), Colin Ethridge (Laytonsville, Md.), Dave Smith (Seattle, Wash.) and Shane Madden (Ambler, Penn.) will race in Chungju with many national titles to their résumés, in search of another international title.
Ethridge won the lightweight double sculls and single sculls at this year’s national selection regattas. Smith won the event at 2012 USRowing National Championships and both Madden and Smith were in the world championships boat in 2012. This is Madden’s sixth stint on the national team, and fourth in the quad.
The United States missed the final last year in Plovdiv by a pixel in a finish line photo, and finished eighth overall. Two of the six finalist countries will be represented in the 10-boat field.
Lightweight Women’s Quadruple Sculls
The last time the U.S. medaled in the event was in 2011, where it won bronze with returning Hillary Saeger (Dedham, Mass.) in the boat. Joining Saeger is Nancy Miles (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Helen Tompkins (Friendswood, Texas) and Rachel Stortvedt (Long Beach, Calif.).
The U.S. finished fourth in the event last year in Plovdiv. Nine boats will be competing and only two countries of six in last year’s final are scheduled to compete.
Men’s Pair
Alex Karwoski (Hollis, N.H.) and Michael DiSanto (Boston, Mass.) are first-time senior national team members, having competed on the under 23 national team – DiSanto in 2011 and Karwoski in 2012. The pair has been training at the USRowing Training Center – Princeton.
Olympic champions, New Zealand’s Eric Murray and Hamish Bond own the longest winning streak at international events in men's rowing after recording their 15th consecutive title at the Lucerne world cup. There are 19 other crews competing against Murray and Bond in the men’s pair.
Women’s Pair
The U.S. took two relative newcomers to the line in London last year in Sara Hendershot and Sarah Zelenka, and came fractions of a second from tallying a bronze medal. In these world championships, senior team veteran and London Olympic champion in the women’s eight, Meghan Musnicki (Naples, N.Y.) will race with first-time senior team Taylor Goetzinger (Mt. Pleasant, Mich.).
This pair has clicked from the start, winning its selection regatta race and then earning a spot on the team with a bronze-medal performance in Lucerne. Great Britain returns London champion Helen Glover to the field of 14. Glover will be without her gold-medal partner, Heather Stanning. Polly Swann is rowing in her place. The pair have picked up where Team GB left off, having won all three 2013 World Rowing Cups and the overall points trophy.
Lightweight Men’s Pair
Gregory Flood (Tulsa, Okla.) and Frank Petrucci (Warwick, N.Y.) will represent the U.S. in the lightweight men’s pair. The United States won a silver medal in the event at the 2013 World Rowing Cup in Lucerne.
Flood raced in the event at the 2012 World Rowing Senior and Junior Championships, placing ninth overall, while Petrucci finished seventh in the lightweight four at the 2011 Pan American Games.
Men’s Pair with Coxswain
Coxswain Stephen Young (Tampa, Fla.), Matt Wheeler (Eugene, Ore.) and Rob Munn (Redmond, Wash.) join three other crews in the event for world championships.
Young returns as coxswain of this boat after finishing sixth in the event last year in Plovdiv. Wheeler is a four-time national team member, who most recently won gold in the eight at the 2011 Pan American Games. Munn, a first-time senior national team member, won gold in the under 23 men’s eight at the 2012 World Rowing Under 23 Championships, his third consecutive medal at the under 23 level.
Men’s Four
At last year’s Olympics Games, the men’s four won a bronze medal with a crew that had never rowed an international race together before their opening heat at Eton Dorney. This year, the crew consists of Michael Gennaro (Havertown, Penn.), Henrik Rummel (Pittsford, N.Y.), Seth Weil (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Grant James (DeKalb, Ill.).
Rummel is the sole returning member of the 2012 lineup, while James returns from a fourth-place finish in the men’s eight in London. First-time U.S. national team member Weil and London alternate Gennaro round out the boat. The crew led wire-to-wire in all three races in Lucerne, took home the gold and defeated London silver medalists Australia, which had two members of the Olympic crew racing. The U.S. will compete in a field of 17 crews in Chungju.
Women’s Four
The women’s four was dropped from the world championships following the 2011 championships on Lake Bled due to a consistent lack of entries over a period of several years. Because it is considered a valuable development boat by many countries, it was returned to the schedule.
The U.S. enters Felice Mueller (Cleveland, Ohio), Tessa Gobbo (Chesterfield, N.H.), Olivia Coffey (Watkins Glen, N.Y.) and Emily Huelskamp (Sainte Genevieve, Mo.) in the event. With six boats in the field, the defending world champion U.S. should expect tough competition from Canada, Germany and Australia, which have strong sweep programs.
Lightweight Men’s Four
Robin Prendes (Miami, Fla.), Anthony Fahden (Lafayette, Calif.), Robert Duff (Huntingdon Valley, Penn.) and Will Daly (Vail, Colo.) will face 16 crews in Chungju. The same U.S. lineup finished seventh in Lucerne earlier this year.
The U.S. did not qualify this boat class for the Olympics at the first opportunity in Bled in 2011, but after training under Volpenhein, earned a spot on the London ticket at the 2012 Final Olympic Qualification Regatta.
The boat finished eighth overall in London. This year’s lineup returns both Prendes and Fahden, and adds Daly, who rowed in the event in Beijing, and Duff, who last rowed on the senior team in 2010. New Zealand won the event in Lucerne. Second-place Denmark returns three members from the crew that took silver in London.
Men’s Eight
In its most recent international race, the United States men’s eight dominated the field at World Rowing Cup #3 in Lucerne, winning a gold medal. The U.S. crew of coxswain Zach Vlahos (Piedmont, Calif.), Thomas Peszek (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Thomas Dethlefs (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Steven Kasprzyk (Cinnaminson, N.J.), Austin Hack (Old Lyme, Conn.), Ambrose Puttmann (Cincinnati, Ohio), Nareg Guregian (North Hills, Calif.), Ross James (DeKalb, Ill.) and Ian Silveira (West Bloomfield, Mich.) beat four-time defending world and Olympic champion Germany.
Before Lucerne, the U.S. men had not medaled in a world cup since the 2008 men’s quad won gold at World Rowing Cup #2.
Germany, which had been dominating the event for four years, won the Olympic gold. In Lucerne, the U.S. battled Germany stroke for stroke and won the gold medal. Expect Germany, which tweaked its Lucerne lineup, to come looking for revenge. There are 10 countries entered.
Following the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the United States’ men’s side gained momentum over those four years, culminating in a fourth-place finish in London, just missing a bronze medal to Great Britain by 0.3 seconds in the final.
The U.S. eight reached the medal stand in two out of the last three Olympic Games, winning gold and setting a world’s best time in Athens in 2004 and a bronze medal in Beijing.
Women’s Eight
The U.S. women’s eight is the two-time defending Olympic and six-time defending world champion. For the eighth year in a row, the boat has a different lineup than the years before, but no matter the athletes in what order head coach Tom Terhaar puts in the crew, they have since found a way to win.
In its most recent race at the third 2013 World Rowing Cup in Lucerne, the U.S. women’s eight set a new world record of 5:54.16 and won gold by 7.6 seconds over Canada and Romania. The previous world record was set at the second 2012 World Rowing Cup by the United States.
The crew consists of coxswain Katelin Snyder (Detroit, Mich.), Heidi Robbins (Hanover, N.H.), Vicky Opitz (Middleton, Wis.), Caroline Lind (Greensboro, N.C.), Grace Luczak (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Lauren Schmetterling (Moorestown, N.J.), Emily Regan (Buffalo, N.Y.), Kerry Simmonds (San Diego, Calif.), and Amanda Polk (Pittsburgh, Penn.).
Of the nine, only one returns from London’s gold medal-winning crew – Caroline Lind. Lind raced in the eight in 2012, as well as the 2008 Beijing crew.
Romania was the closest to the U.S. in Lucerne, finishing second with a time of 6:00.42, followed by Canada in 6:01.61. Terhaar will have his crew ready and believing that what happened in Lucerne will not guarantee them a gold at the world championships; and like all of Terhaar-coached eights, they will race with that in mind.
Lightweight Men’s Eight
Coxswain Michael Hwang (Seattle, Wash.), Sean Gibel (Atlanta, Ga.), Peter Gibson (Belmont, Mass.), Josh Getz (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dorian Weber (Henley-on-Thames, UK), Brendan Mulvey (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Tobin McGee (Rye, N.Y.), Bryan Pape (Simsbury, Conn.), and David Morgenstern (Simsbury, Conn.) look to improve on last year’s ninth place finish in Plovdiv.
This year’s crew comes from Community Rowing, Inc., in Boston, and races with a completely new lineup, which includes Weber, who competed in the leg, trunk and arms four with coxswain at the 2012 Paralympic Games. There are only two other crews racing in Chungju: Italy and Australia.
Men’s Arms and Shoulders Single Sculls
After a nine-year run on the U.S. National Team, Ron Harvey did not return this year and Daniel Ahr (Mount Laurel, N.J.) won his spot during trials. Of the six Paralympic finalists, only China is not returning. Great Britain’s Tom Aggar, fourth in London, is always dangerous, as is silver medalist Erik Horrie from Australia.
Ahr, a retired U.S. Navy Service Warfare Officer, joined the Medstar NRH Paralympic Sport Club in 2012, and won trials and set a personal best in his second season on the water. His long-term goal of representing the U.S. at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio begins with his debut in Chungju.
Women’s Arms and Shoulders Single Sculls
Dana Fink (Washington, D.C.) has been on the cusp of being the women’s single for several years. She won the 2012 Non-Qualified Paralympic Trials, but did not qualify the boat at the final Paralympic qualifying regatta in Belgrade, Serbia.
Fink finished third in the 2012 World Rowing Cup in Belgrade. Reigning Paralympic champion Alla Lysenko of the Ukraine is entered in the nine-boat field, as is Paralympic finalist Claudia Santos of Brazil.
Trunk and Arms Mixed Double Sculls
Rob Jones (Lovettsville, Va.) and Oksana Masters (Buffalo, N.Y.) are returning from bronze medal performance at the 2012 Paralympic Games. Jones and Masters won bronze again at the second world cup in Eaton Dorney, returned to the U.S. and won the para-rowing trials.
Eight crews are entered including France and Israel, which finished first and second at Eaton Dorney this year.
Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Double Sculls
Natalie McCarthy (Seattle, Wash.), and Paul Hurley (Washington, D.C.) enter in the event, which is a new boat class in Para-Rowing.
Hurley is a retired U.S. Naval Officer, and holds the world record for indoor 1000-meters. McCarthy, also a first-time national team member, won the legs, trunk and arms four in 2010, 2011 and 2012 at the Head of the Charles Regatta and set the course record in the event in 2012.
Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Four with Coxswain
Coxswain Jenny Sichel (Clifton, N.J.), Andrew Johnson (Riverside, Conn.), Eric McDaniel (Weeki Wachee, Fla.), Kathy Byington (Washington, D.C.), and Jaclyn Smith (Williston Park, N.Y.) join to race five other crews.
Johnson returns from the London lineup, where the U.S. finished sixth. Also returning to the crew is McDaniel, who last rowed in the event in 2011 at Lake Bled. Six countries are entered including Great Britain the defending Paralympic champion, third-place Ukraine, and Italy, which finished fifth.
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