Word: heavyweights
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Going into the climactic race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association’s national championships on Saturday, the Harvard heavyweight first varsity expected its toughest challenge, a sprint down to the final 20 strokes. Never mind that the Crimson had won every other race this year by more than a length. This time, with the stakes so high, highly touted boats from Washington, Wisconsin and four-time defending champion California were supposed to make it close...
Harvard won the Varsity Challenge Cup, given to the best heavyweight first varsity at IRAs, for the first time in school history with a surprisingly large margin of victory of nearly four seconds over closest-finisher Washington...
Harvard also won the Ten Eyck trophy given to the overall points champion of all IRA races. That includes all Harvard heavyweight races and the Harvard and Radcliffe lightweight races. The Harvard heavyweight second varsity and freshman boat each placed third in their respective divisions...
...time after the heavyweight final] was like the best hour of my life,” Tisch said. “I definitely made a call for a dual championship during the race which really got the boat going...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew put the exclamation point on the greatest chapter in its 31-year history by capturing the NCAA team title yesterday...