China's oarswomen yesterday scored two golds and three silvers
in the second leg of the Rowing World Cup in Poznan, Poland.
Yu Hua overtook her European rivals to take first place in the
women's lightweight single scull event.
Pair's rowers Xu Dongxiang and Yan Shimin, plus teammates Fan
Xuefei and Chen Haixia, pulled off a one-two finish in the women's
lightweight double sculls events.
The powerful Xu-Yan combination set a new world record of six
minutes and 49.77 seconds, trumping the best time Australia set at
the 2004 Athens Olympics.
The Chinese athletes rounded off their tally with two more
silvers in the women's quadruple sculls and women's eights.
The Rowing World Cup is an annual team competition, created in
1997, comprising three international regattas per year.?
The venues for this year's Rowing World Cup series are: Munich
(Germany) from May 25 to 27, Poznan (Poland) from June 15 to 17,
and Lucerne (Switzerland) from July 7 to 9.
China's Xu and Yu clocked seven minutes and 11.36 seconds to win
the women's double sculls title during the first leg in Munich.
(CRI.com, China.org.cn June 19, 2006)