Five Star Rowers go to Paris World Champs

Well done girls! What an achievement to perform on the world stage. 5th fastest U19 W8+ crew in the WORLD! We’ll take that with pride❤️

A post fresh from Rowing NZ for Maxims U19 M4x

“A close race for our U19 M4x in the A/B final. They finished 4th, which sees them through to the B Final”



B Jack Clark
2 Maximilian Ericson
3 Marley Kingsmith
S Justin Smyth

These pics from Rowing NZ today of our five stars in Paris ❤️ Girls racing at 8.15pm tonight!

A great first day of racing for our five stars with all of them progressing to race again on day two.

See this great article from Rowing NZ about day one and the details below on how to listen to audio of the racing as well as the live video feed from Saturday.

“It was a blinder of a race in the men’s quad where Marley King Smith, Justin Smyth, Maxim Ericson and Jack Clark(coached by Martin Simoncelli) came out on the right side of a sprint finish and gained a top two finish, meaning they will progress directly to the A/B semifinal to be raced on Saturday 5th August. The Czech crew took first place (5:59.08), the kiwis in second (5:59.88) and the USA in third (5:59.90). Across all three heats, only five seconds separated the top seven fastest crew – meaning all crews will be in for a fantastic battle in the A/B semifinal.”

“With only seven entries, the women’s coxed eight had a cut-throat progression that saw first going directly to the A final and all others to the repechage. Georgie Bethell, Nicole Vance, Alice Wallis, Emma Bagrie, Nico Daly, Kate Barham, Zola Kemp, Phoebe Wallis and Annabel Wynn-Williams (cox), (coached by Logan Keys)put up a great performance and crossed the line in second place behind Germany, meaning they will contest the repechage on Friday 4th August.”

Make sure to follow along with the racing through the following platforms:
Live race tracker and Live audio will be available for ALL race on www.worldrowing.com.
Live video streaming will be available on the World Rowing website Saturday 5 August. The video streaming will start 5 minutes before the first race.
Follow World Rowing on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok for behind the scenes interviews, live updates, racing updates, photos and more.

The NZ supporters are ready at Vaires-Sur-Marne! The rain, wind and cold are making us feel very much at home. And the choppy water…. Eek!!!!!☔️🇫🇷
listen in to todays heats here.

https://worldrowing.com/event/2023-world-rowing-under-19-championships

Our five star rowers have managed a day off training and visited the Paris sights!! This is their first and only day off/ sightseeing since they arrived! They look pretty happy to be there!
C’est très bon! 🇫🇷📸

Our five stars have switched to French cuisine and three course dinners. The meals are looking good and check out Maxim’s breakfast from the buffet! 👇

Hi everyone, we are delighted to announce that our fundraising efforts allowed Star Boating Club to pay $7,016 to Rowing New Zealand for each of the Five Rowers costs to compete in Paris. This was based on $35,080 in funds raised from our fundraiser and from the donations made to the trybooking page.

Thank you again to all those that bought tickets and attended the fundraiser, and to those who made independent donations, bought raffle tickets and donated items for our raffles and auctions.

We are thrilled with the money raised and look forward to continuing to share this journey with you all. Keep following the page as we will continue to post details of the journey for these remarkable kids.

Great article and photos of our Five Stars prepping for departure.

A pre-departure photo gallery of the U19 NZ squad has been added to RowingHub ➡️ https://rowinghub.co.nz/2023-world-rowing-u19-championships/

Photos: Rowing Pictureshow

2023 WORLD ROWING UNDER 19 CHAMPIONSHIPS
2 - 6 AUG 2023
Paris, FRANCE