1X World Rowing Championships 1987 -København (den)

[dtyler0102]

Passionate rowers, but often we are poor historians. Estonia was Russian in 1987. I think this speaks to the amazing longevity of the great Juri Jaanson.

[lachiemckenzie]

Jeez Jaanson- we though Sydney was good, then Athens, now Beijing!!

Amazing

[Maraetaisculler]

Thanks rowermc for this famous piece of history. Where do you get all these clips? I'm from NZ and rowed there before 1995 Tampere worlds. A beautiful course! So nice to reminisce.

When I see Eric Verdonk (6th here but 3rd in Seoul), I will tell him of this, I'm sure he would also appreciate it!

[theSculler]

Yes, I checked later: sorry for mistrusting you, Alldali :^) he just looked too dark-haired to me, and too stiff on the back to be him. Very young he must have been (38 in 2004 minus 17). I like Tufte (although not Tufte's technique!), but I was really hoping Jaanson would win in Athens. Maybe because I'm 37 ;^)

[ALLDALI]

The speaker says Jaanson - so I guess he is not inventing this. Technique is changing over the years - I am myself 39 years old.

[theSculler]

Yeah, now I heard. The funny thing is, at first I'd been looking at this in my office, without audio: as soon as I plugged the headphones in, I got all the answers to my questions about Jaanson and Body... :^) I was just too happy to see the 1987 final to remember switching the audio on!

[rowermc]

Alldali is right, Yuri Jaanson is the russian sculler in this final.

[sanglepp]

@rowermc Jüri Jaanson is estonian rower not russian

[theSculler]

...and 2nd in Athens in the singles as well. Great Yuri Jaanson. Still I suspect this in the video is actually Vassili Yakoucha (or however this should be written sorry to the Russians out there), 2nd in Moscow 1980.

PS to rowermc: right, Pascal Body! How could I forget. And he actually closed up on Karppinen in the last 500!

[ALLDALI]

You know who rowed here for Russia : Yuri Jaanson !!!! Worldchampion in 1X in 1990 andhe was in final in 2007 in 2X at the world championchips !

[scottwiz2413]

Incredible!  Thanks for putting this up.

[rowermc]

Thanks for your comment. The French sculler is Pascal Body, several times finalist in the 80's in 2x, 4x and 1X.

[theSculler]

I have been waiting 20 years to see this race between my three idols, which sets a landmark in the history of sculling (end of the Karppinen-Kolbe era, enter Thomas Lange!). The Italian TV had never broadcast it and I thought I was never bound to see it.

Many, many thanks to rowermc!

PS I had also never known how close the French sculler had come to K-K: who was it?