World Lwt record broken

[fatsculler]

At the Danish indoor championships Stephensen went 5:57.4!

[lt.wolf]

Is he the running for an Olympic spot this year?

[GreatDane71]

Yes. His plan is to try to qualify for the open 1x in Lucerne in May.

[lt.wolf]

He will have a pretty good chance of doing that!!

[caustic]

Whoa. 40lbs lighter, and pulling a 5:57? I bet he makes the A finals in '12.

[fatsculler]

Whoa. 40lbs lighter, and pulling a 5:57? I bet he makes the A finals in '12.

I doubt he'll qualify, if he does he won't make the A final....he'll simply be outgunned by the big boys. Put it this way,Purchase is a much better sculler than Stephensen and he would struggle to make the A final of the GB heavyweight trials,let alone an Olympic final.

[2CiiX21]

Whoa. 40lbs lighter, and pulling a 5:57? I bet he makes the A finals in '12.

I doubt he'll qualify, if he does he won't make the A final....he'll simply be outgunned by the big boys. Put it this way,Purchase is a much better sculler than Stephensen and he would struggle to make the A final of the GB heavyweight trials,let alone an Olympic final.

I think you're severely under estimating how much his speed has improved over the last year. I also don't think Purchase would have any trouble making GB heavy 1x finals - unless you think there are a 4-5 guys in GB who can get within 10-12 seconds of the heavy 1x world's best time...?

[fatsculler]

Campbell
Wells
Bateman
Rowbotham
Cousins
Lucas
Solesbury
Townsend ......

[2CiiX21]

Campbell
Wells
Bateman
Rowbotham
Cousins
Lucas
Solesbury
Townsend ......

And since when are they all capable of going sub-6:50 in singles?

[2CiiX21]

Campbell
Wells
Bateman
Rowbotham
Cousins
Lucas
Solesbury
Townsend ......

Four of these guys are in the 4x that beat the USA by about 1 second to win the B final in Bled. Care to guess how many guys in that USA 4x have ever gone sub-6:50 or even sub-7:00 in singles?

[fatsculler]

The guys I quote would/are faster than Zac in the single

[2CiiX21]

The guys I quote would/are faster than Zac in the single

Purchase won in Eton (2006) in 6:47 three races before Drysdale won in 6:35 (Campbell 6th / 6:49). Now, there's some potential for conditions to change there, but as far as I know both were similar tailwinds and similar chop. I'm not even suggesting that Purchase is faster than Campbell 1 vs 1, just that it's ludicrous that you think there are 6 other scullers from GB in that 12 second span between Purchase and Drysdale's winning speeds.

[lt.wolf]

Jump to about 32:35 min into the video for the WR ,

http://www.livestream.com/ergometertide ... m=ui-thumb

[bodyangle]

I'm not sure he could have looked more in control after that piece. He barely even gasps for air. pretty remarkable.

[tpj]

A number of other guys posted some big scores too:

Steffen D. 6:03.1
Mads R. 6:09.9
Morten J. 6:11.2
Eskild E. 6:11.8

Impressive.