#Rowing: Sanita Puspure, the O’Donovan brothers and Ireland lightweight coach Dominic Casey have all been chosen as finalists for the World Rowing Awards 2018. Puspure won gold in the women’s single sculls and Paul and Gary O’Donovan won the lightweight double, coached by Casey, at the World Rowing Championships.
Just two crews, along with Puspure, are in the running for Women’s Crew of the Year, while there are four crews in the finals of Men’s Crew of the Year and for Coach of the Year. Casey has reached the final three years in-a-row.
The awards will be presented on November 23rd in Berlin.
Finalists for the 2018 World Rowing Awards
Women’s Crew of the Year
- Caileigh Filmer, Hillary Janssens, Canada, Women’s pair
- Sanita Puspure, Ireland, Women’s single sculls
- Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska, Marta Wieliczko, Maria Springwald, Katarzyna Zillmann, Poland, Women’s quadruple sculls
Men’s Crew of the Year
- Joshua Hicks, Spencer Turrin, Jack Hargreaves, Alexander Hill, Australia, Men’s four
- Jason Osborne, Germany, Lightweight men’s single sculls
- Johannes Weissenfeld, Felix Wimberger, Maximilian Planer, Torben Johannesen, Jakob Schneider, Malte Jakschik, Richard Schmidt, Hannes Ocik, Martin Sauer (coxswain), Germany, Men’s eight
- Paul O’Donovan, Gary O’Donovan, Ireland, Lightweight men’s double sculls
Para-rowing Crew of the Year
- Perle Bouge, France, Para PR2 women’s single sculls
- Ellen Buttrick, Grace Clough, Oliver Stanhope, Daniel Brown, Erin Wysocki-Jones (coxswain), Great Britain, Para PR3 mixed coxed four
- Annika van der Meer, Corne de Koning, Netherlands, Para PR2 mixed double sculls
Coach of the Year
- Uwe Bender, Germany, Men’s eight
- Dominic Casey, Ireland, Men’s pair, lightweight men’s and women’s double sculls, lightweight men’s quadruple sculls
- Jan Klerks, Netherlands, Para-rowing team
- Laurel Korholz, United States, Women’s four, women’s single sculls
2018 Sustainability Award
- “Pushing for a Clean Sweep”, National Schools Regatta, Great Britain
- “Partnership with Waikato Water Authority”, Rowing NZ, New Zealand
- “Love Where you Row”, Alan Robinson/Schuylkill Navy, United States