Britain’s lightweight sculler, Adam Freeman-Pask, made the semi-finals from his repechage on Tuesday, but is having a harder championships than expected.
First his sculling boat was run over, and then he was beaten in a race he would have hoped to win. His boat was accidentally damaged by Germany’s boatman, cycling past last week, and despite a perfect repair job being done, the incident has rattled him.
Iran’s new under-23 champion, Mohsen Shadi Naghadeh, overtook the Englishman deep into the repechage, balking him of a confidence-building win.
“I wanted to put some demons to rest there, which I didn’t quite do”, said Freeman-Pask “Now I’ve given myself a really hard job, going into the semi as one of the lowest-ranked scullers.”
Samantha Scowen and James Roberts have struggled to recover from Scowen’s knee injury. They booked the last place in the adaptive doubles final with second place in their repechage, but sadly their early-season speed has not returned and a medal is unlikely for this promising combination.
Wednesday’s group B repechages spell crunch time for the women’s quads and eight, their last chance to reach the final. Both should do it, but need convincing performances to be in the running for medals on Sunday.
Results
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Poznan, Poland)
Repechages Group A & Adaptive events
Men
Lightweight singles (1st 2 to semi) Rep 1: 1 S Africa 7-33.47. Rep 2: 1 Japan 7-36.14. Rep 3: 1 Hungary 7-40.58. Rep 4: 1 Iran 7-34.17; 2 GB (A Freeman-Pask) 7-36.23.
Women
Lightweight singles (1st 3 to semi, rest to C final) Rep 1: 1 Denmark 8-35.77. Rep 2: 1 US 8-30.69; 6 GB (E Johnstone) 8-53.44.
Adaptive
Trunk/arms mixed doubles (1st 2 to final) Rep 1: 1 Poland 4-42.42. Rep 2: 1 Italy 4-46.42; 2 GB (J Roberts, S Scowen) 4-48.53.
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