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World Championships 1999

27th August 1999

FISA World Championships 22-30 August 1999

Five good medal prospects

Christopher Dodd reports from St. Catharines, Canada on the Friday results and Saturday possibilities

Prospects for finals:

Coxless four (Cracknell, Redgrave, Ed Coode, Matthew Pinsent): fastest semi, good form, firm favourites, the crew to topple, unlikely to be lower than gold. Saturday.

Men's eight (Bob Thatcher, Ben Hunt-Davis, Fred Scarlett, Louis Attrill, Luka Grubor, Kieran West, Tim Foster, Steve Trapmore, cox Rowley Douglas). Final with Russia, US, Netherlands, Italy, Canada and Romania. Russia outstanding, US same crew as won last year. Medals are anybody's. Sunday.

Men's pair (Steve Williams, Simon Dennis): Nothing to lose. These boys are racers. Could get among medals, though Australians Ginn and Tomkins from Oarsome Foursome outstanding. Saturday.

Women's pair (Dot Blackie and Cath Bishop): incredible second half in semi-final. If they get the first half together, they will be there. Saturday.

Boats qualified for Olympics to date: Men's eight, four, pair; women's pair, double.

Non-Olympic boats

Lightweight eight (Men's lightweight eight: Philip Baker, Gareth Davis, Aidan Tucker, Ned Kittoe, James McGarva, Mike Louzado, Nick Strange, Ben Webb, cox Christian Cormack): Lousy heat, good rep, medal prospect.

Lightweight men's single (Peter Haining): Anything can happen when the 1993-95 champion is around.

Miriam Batten and Gillian Lindsay won Olympic qualification by finishing first in the B final for rankings from 7-12. Britain's lightweight men's double (4th), four (5th) and pair (5th) and the women's quadruple scullers (5th) all failed to qualify for Sunday's A finals and race in B finals on Saturday.

Greg Searle finished second in the C final, ranking 14th.

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