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Silver For Herschmiller
Created: 8/21/2004 9:33:04 AM
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Princeton graduate Thomas Herschmiller picked up the Ivy League's fourth medal of the Athens Games on Saturday, claiming Silver in the Men's Fours in rowing. And -- like Adam Nelson in the shot put -- the gold medal was within very close reach.
Herschmiller's Canadian Four led the boat from Great Britain heading into the final 500 meters, but the Brits crossed the line less than a tenth-of-a-second ahead of Canada in the end. A 2001 Princeton grad, Herschmiller rowed for the Canadian eight in Sydney, finishing seventh overall.
Two other Ivy Leaguers rowed in the medal final, but did not gain the hardware. Brown graduate Nikola Stojic rowed in pairs for Serbia-Montenegro and finished fifth with partner Mladen Stegic. Harvard's Henry Nuzum was in the double sculls final with Aquil Abdullah, but the duo finished outside the medals in sixth.
There were a number of Leaguers competing in the 'B' Finals on Saturday (determining places seventh through 12th) and four of them won those finals. Barnard's Stacey Borgman teamed with Lisa Schlenker to win the lightweight double sculls while Harvard's Greg Ruckman and his partner Steve Tucker did the same in the men's race.
The Serbian-Montenegro lightweight four boat with bow Veljko Urosevic (Columbia) and stroke Milos Tomic (Columbia) claimed the 'B' Final as well.
Five Ivy Leaguers will have a shot at Gold on Sunday with Michelle Guerette (Harvard) and Danika Harris-Holbrook (Princeton) in the quadruple sculls, Caryn Davies (Harvard) and Lianne Nelson (Princeton) in the women's eight and Chris Ahrens (Princeton) in the men's eight. Both U.S. eights set world records in qualifying directly to the final from the first round.
SATURDAY'S FINALS
MEN'S FOURS 'A' FINAL
1. Great Britain, 6:06.98; 2. Canada (Cameron Baerg, Thomas Herschmiller, Jake Wetzel, Barney Williams), 6:07.06; 3. Italy, 6:10.41; 4. Australia, 6:13.06; 5. New Zealand, 6:15.47; 6. Poland, 6:22.43.
MEN'S PAIRS 'A' FINAL
1. Australia, 6:30.76; 2. Croatia, 6:32.64; 3. South Africa, 6:33.40; 4. New Zealand, 6:34.24; 5. Serbia-Montenegro (Nikola Stojic, Mladen Stegic), 6:39.74; 6. Germany, 6:46.50.
MEN'S DOUBLE SCULLS 'A' FINAL
1. France, 6:29.00; 2. Slovenia, 6:31.72; 3. Italy, 6:32.93; 4. Estonia, 6:35.30; 5. Czech Republic, 6:35.81; 6. United States (Aquil Abdullah, Henry Nuzum), 6:36.86; 7. Norway, 6:37.25.
WOMEN'S LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE SCULLS 'B' FINAL
1. United States (Lisa Schlenker, Stacey Borgman), 7:23.40; 2. Canada, 7:26.07; 3. Great Britain, 7:29.12; 4. Denmark, 7:32.58; 5. Spain, 7:41.23; 6. Greece, 7:48.42.
MEN'S LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE SCULLS 'B' FINAL
1. United States (Steve Tucker, Greg Ruckman), 6:45.20; 2. Spain, 6:46.48; 3. Czech Republic, 6:46.77; 4. Ireland, 6:49.26; 5. Slovakia, 6:58.78; 6. Italy, 7:01.86.
MEN'S LIGHTWEIGHT FOURS 'B' FINAL
1. Serbia-Montenegro (Veljko Urosevic, Nanad Babovic, Goran Nedelikovic, Milos Tomic), 6:19.00; 2. Russia, 6:20.64; 3. United States (Pat Todd, Matt Smith, Paul Teti, Steve Warner); 4. Austria, 6:22.85; 5. Germany, 6:23.28; 6. Spain, 6:26.15.
MEN'S QUADRUPLE SCULLS 'B' FINAL
1. Australia, 6:02.31; 2. Switzerland, 6:04.53; 3. Estonia, 6:05.11; 4. Italy, 6:06.91; 5. United States (Ben Holbrook, Brett Wilkinson, Sloan DuRoss, Kent Smack), 6:07.83; 6. Great Britain, 6:07.87.
MEN'S EIGHT 'B' FINAL
1. Italy, 5:46.36; 2. Poland, 5:50.68; 3. Great Britain (Jonno Devlin, Dan Ouseley, Josh West, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Tom Stallard, Phil Simmons, Robin Bourne-Taylor, Tom James, Christian Cormack), 5:55.77.
SUNDAY'S FINALS
WOMEN'S QUADRUPLE SCULLS 'A' FINAL
Start List -- United States (Michelle Guerette, Hilary Gehman, Kelly Salchow, Danika Harris-Holbrook); Ukraine; Germany; Great Britain; Russia, Australia.
WOMEN'S EIGHT 'A' FINAL
Start List -- China; Germany; United States (Kate Johnson, Samantha Magee, Megan Dirkmaat, Alison Cox, Anna Mickelson, Laurel Korholz, Caryn Davies, Lianne Nelson-Bennion, Mary Whipple); Netherlands, Romania, Australia.
MEN'S EIGHT 'A' FINAL
Start List -- France; Netherlands; United States (Jason Read, Wyatt Allen, Chris Ahrens, Joseph Hansen, Matt Deakin, Dan Beery, Beau Hoopman, Bryan Volpenheim, Pete Cipollone); Australia; Canada, Germany.
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Related Sports: Rowing
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