Spots in the A finals are on offer for the first and second place-getters in the Women's Double Sculls on Monday, August 11, as day three of the Rowing regatta gets underway at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.
Following the postponement of the Women's and Men's Eights on Sunday because of inclement weather, the four Eights heats will now be raced on Monday from 2:50 p.m. (UTC/GMT +8). The first quarterfinal of the Women's Single Sculls will start at 3:30 p.m. as originally scheduled.
The program re-scheduling also sees the Women's Pairs repechages moved to Tuesday, August 12, at 5:20 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Women's Eight
After a solid 2008 World Cup campaign, Australia must feel confident of a medal in the Women's Eight. They will be tested by reigning Olympic champions Romania, the powerful world champion US crew and the Great Britain and Canadian combinations.
Men's Eight
In the Men's Eight, the United States will be out to repeat their world record-setting Athens Games success. But the US crew that chose not to race in Europe this season will first need to overcome in-form world champions Canada, as well as Germany, China, Australia and a Great Britain combination keen to regain the crown won at the Sydney Games.
Women's Single Sculls
-- Some excellent racing is expected across the four quarterfinals with final A hopefuls Michelle Guerette of the United States, Gabriela Bascelli of Italy and Julia Michalska of Poland lining up in the first race of the day.
-- Miroslava Knapkova of the Czech Republic and surprise heat winner Iva Obradovic of Serbia should fight out the second quarterfinal, while Bulgaria's Rumyana Neykova and China's Zhang Xiuyun are expected to contest the third. Both are good finishers, meaning the race should go down to the wire.
-- Event favourite Ekaterina Karsten of Belarus, Emma Twigg of New Zealand and Frida Svensson of Sweden should dominate the last quarterfinal.
Men's Single Sculls
-- Andre Vonarburg of Switzerland, Alan Campbell of Great Britain and Marcel Hacker of Germany appear in the first Men's Single Sculls quarterfinal. Hacker will be particularly keen to improve on Saturday's heat, where he ran second to Lassi Karonen of Sweden after fading noticeably in the final 750m.
-- Norway's Olaf Tufte should have the measure of the field in the second quarterfinal, while Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic and Tim Maeyens of Belgium are tipped for a close race in the third. World champion Mahe Drysdale of New Zealand should be untroubled in the last Single Sculls quarterfinal of the day.
Men's Pair
-- A single repechage will be run to determine A/B semifinalists and C-finalists in the Men's Pair.
-- Croatia's Sinisa and Niksa Skelin should improve on a below-par heat row on Saturday to take the repechage.
Women's Double Sculls
-- Four final A berths will be won during the two repechages of the Women's Double Sculls.
-- Germany and Great Britain will be keen to consign Italy and Romania to final B when they contest the first repechage, while the USA and Czech Republic will be hoping to do likewise to Australia and Ukraine in the second.
Men's Double Sculls
-- The only repechage of the Men's Double Sculls presents a particularly open race, with little separating semifinal hopefuls USA, Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria and Iraq after Saturday's heats.
Men's Four
-- France and the Czech Republic should contest the final event of the day, the Men's Four Repechage.
-- China and Belarus will be looking to improve on their heat performances, but could still find the opposition too strong over the final 1000m of the race.
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