Victorian Combination Step Up the Pace
 2008 Beijing silver medallists
Cameron McKenzie-McHarg and James Marburg have shown their class to claim
the final of the men’s pair at the 2010 Rowing Australia National
Selection Trials at the Sydney International Regatta Centre, Penrith.
With
a slight breeze blowing across the course, McKenzie-McHarg and Marburg,
who were part of the men’s four in Beijing, produced a strong second
1000m to claim victory and position themselves as the number one ranked
pair heading into trialling for the men’s four and men’s eight later this
week.
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Next General Meeting
Scheduled
The next Rowing
Victoria general meeting has been announced. The meeting will be held:
Sunday 20th
June 2010 – 10am
Albert Park South
Melbourne Rowing Club
Aughtie Drive, Plant
Williamson Rowing Pavilion
Albert Park Lake,
Melbourne
This general
meeting will include forum topics to be distributed at the end of May.
Safety Management Plan
Rowing Victoria
have negotiated extensions to the 1st June 2010 deadline on buoyancy.
Discussions with Marine Safety about alternate safety procedures continue.
Please contact Nick Gall at Rowing Victoria for further information.
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Closure of the Yarra River - 3rd May 2010
The Yarra River will be closed between the
Charles Grimes Bridge and the Seafarers Bridge on Monday 3rd May 2010
from 06.00am until 10.00 am.
Contingency dates will be Tuesday 4th May
through until Friday 7th May if the weather does not allow for the
closure to take place on Monday. The closure is part of the Main
Melbourne Sewer project. Parks Victoria vessels will be present at the
closure to advise river users of the changed traffic conditions.
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Thomas Keller Medal: Oarsome Rower
Finalist
Article: www.worldrowing.com
(23/4/10)
 Drew
Ginn is no stranger to pain and adversity. The second Thomas Keller
Medal finalist to be announced, Ginn, is an athlete other athletes
admire, not only for his courage, but also for his fluid
picture-perfect technique.
Ginn can attribute his high school
kick-start into rowing partly to one of his coaches – James Tomkins. As
a 21-year-old, Ginn shot to rowing stardom after earning a spot with
Tomkins, Nick Green and Mike McKay – otherwise known as the Oarsome
Foursome – and going on to win an Olympic gold medal. The Olympics were
Atlanta 1996. Ginn’s rowing career had taken off.
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