 30 May 2010
The national rowing team of Great Britain showed excellent performances at Lake Bled World Cup. The British crew won six of 14 final A races, finishing first respectively. Besides that Britain also got five silver medals. Canada was next up with two wins, the US, New Zealand, Denmark, Croatia, Belarus and the Czech Republic each winning one event.
The prestigious race of the mens eights was won ...
 30 May 2010
The last day of racing at the World Cup meet in Bled started early today with A finals on from 8.50 in the morning. A full spectator stand saw many interesting races, Slovenia finished with one sixth and one ninth place. The double sculls with Iztok Cop and Olaf Tufte finished fourth for Norway.
Cop and Tufte, the pair rowed for Norway, had a slow start, rowing fifth through the first 1000 meters. ...
 29 May 2010
Organizers of the World Rowing Cup at Lake Bled were forced to change the Sunday competition schedule due to bad weather forecast. Finals A will therefore start already at 8.50 (not 10.50) and will be followed by finals B starting at 12.20. The preliminary schedule planned finals B before finals A.
The Sunday's program for Slovenia's boats is as follows: Cop will row the double sculls A final at ...
 29 May 2010
Second day racing at the Bled World Cup saw important visitors at the banks of the lake. President of the International Rowing Federation (FISA) Denis Oswald visited the morning regatta session. Before that he took a look around the boat house in Mala Zaka and spoke with several members of the organizing committee.
Also a part of the morning events was the Slovenian Environmental Minister Roko ...
 29 May 2010
Second day rowing was accompanied by rain in the afternoon program. After the morning sun clouds covered the sky above the Lake and soon first raindrops started. Racing conditions were even harder when gusts of wind blew across the lake, finishing times were therefore much slower than the day before.
Slovenia will have two boats in the finals on Sunday. First up was the double sculls with Iztok ...
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Letters of supportDr. Danilo Türk
President of the Republic of Slovenia
 Bled has so far hosted three World Rowing Championships at its unique and internationally famous natural course. These championships were successful in terms of competition
and international coverage, which promises that...
Dr. Igor Lukšič
Minister of Education and Sport
 The organization of the World Rowing Championships at Bled in 2011 is a great recognition for Slovenia, which is one of the most successful countries in the world in terms of the medals won in this sport per number of inhabitants.
Janez Fajfar
Mayor of Bled / Slovenia
 On 3rd September 2007 at the FISA Congress in Munich, Bled was chosen for the site of the World Rowing Cup in 2010 and the World Rowing Championship in 2011. It was a great honor and an enormous challenge for Lake Bled where rowing comes...
Denis Žvegelj
President, Rowing Federation of Slovenia
 Rowing is the sport that has won the most medals at the Olympic games among Slovenian sports. Our modern history of when we first started winning medals on the international rowing scene now spans over twenty years.
Janez Benčina
President of Organizing Committee
 It is Time for Bled !
The decision of a great majority of the delegates of the International Rowing Federation to hold the 2011 World Rowing Championships at Bled was to us both a source of joy and pride. With the trust shown also... |
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