Word: ratzeburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this regatta, even Vesper wasn't good enough to go all the way. Germany's Ratzeburg crew, second to Vesper by a few feet in the Olympic, got its revenge with a half-length victory in the finals. Ratzeburg's 6:16 for the mile and- five-sixteenths broke by two seconds the course record that Vesper had set in beating the Harvard crew on Thursday...
...coxless fours. Darkness had already fallen over the Toda rowing course by the time the big race for eight-oared shells got under way, and flares burst overhead as crews from six nations stroked their way down the 2,000-meter course. The odds-on favorite: Germany's Ratzeburg eight, back to defend the Olympic title they won in 1960. Coxed by Robert Zimonyi, at 46 the oldest man on the U.S. Olympic team, the Vesper Boat Club crew was rated no better than third. They had lost a preliminary heat to Ratzeburg, had to survive a repechage...
Using the tulip-shaped oars popularized by Germany's 1960 Olympic-winning Ratzeburg crew, the high-stroking Californians soon jumped into a boat-length lead. From then on, they unconcernedly looked back at their pursuers for the length of the Olympic-size 2,000-meter course. At the finish, the coxswain took the stroke up to 40 for kicks, and California slid across in 6 min. 31 sec. Adding insult to injury, another Western crew, the University of Washington, was second, nearly two lengths back, and exhausted Cornell was a sorely beaten third...
...biggest disappointment of the day, however, was the failure of the Crimson heavyweight varsity to make the finals. IN a round of morning upsets that equal led Ratzeburg's defeat. Penn, Columbia and Harvard--all seeded second--failed to qualify...
...Brown, who lost to the Crimson three weeks ago, coach Harry Parker's heavyweight drew an unlucky lane that was unprotected from the wind, but Brown rowed all-out to win the heat. The Crimson managed to stay ahead of highly-regarded Penn, who defeated Harvard and gave Ratzeburg a scare last week, but neither qualified...