Koven powers to Henley victory
Harvard takes Ladies Plate as Royal Regatta wraps up
Posted: Sunday July 05, 1998 03:57 PM
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Henley heroes: (from left) Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster, Steve Redgrave and James Cracknell celebrate their Stewards Challenge Cup victory (Julian Hebert/AP) |
HENLEY ON THAMES, England (AP) -- World champion Jamie Koven won
the Diamond Sculls race Sunday in the Henley Royal Regatta, beating
defending champion and world bronze medalist Greg Searle of the
English club Molesey.
Searle moved ahead in the first half-mile before Koven, racing
in the colors of Brown University Alumni, attacked his opponent and
gradually moved out to a 2 1/2-length victory.
Harvard University came through over English opponents from
Cambridge University and Star Club to win the Ladies Plate by 1 1/2
lengths, while Greg Ruckman and Robert Tucker from the Augusta,
Georgia, Sculling Center lost in the final of the double sculls by 3
lengths to the French national squad.
The Leander Club boat (left) comes up the Thames to go on and beat Danmarks' Rocenter to land The Stewards' Cup (Julian Herbert/Allsport) | |
Their quadruple scull teammates from Augusta -- Chris Duffy,
Nicholas McQuaid, Jonathan Brown and Nicholas Peterson - were more
successful, beating Commercial from Dublin, Ireland, by 1 length in
the final of the Queen Mother Cup.
In the final of the Princess Elizabeth Cup for schoolboy eights,
St. Mary's Preparatory School from Orchard Lake, Michigan lost to
England's Radley College by one-half length.
Princeton University lost out to University of Cardiff, Wales,
in the semifinal of the Temple Cup for student eights.
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