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New pictures released from the Danish Nationals 2008 (January). This includes the pictures from the light weight final which was so fast that the silver medalist time at CRASH-B this year would had ended up a mere number 7 with his CRASH-B time. Of course this doesn't makes much of a difference on a...

Age takes its toll. 11.5 SPI @ 39 spm. It will be important for the history of the sport to see what happens to this combination stroking power and rate in such a great lightweight champion as the years go by. My guess is that his stroking power will stay just about the same but that he'll lose abo...

Besides the amazing open lwt race the following races seems also worth noticing: Juliane Elander, last years winner of the Hammer at Crash-B (Women’s Light Weight Open) seemed very relaxed as she took Gold at the Danish Nationals in 7:07.8. See: http://www.ergometertider.dk/result.php?loeb=1123 A we...

http://www.ergometertider.dk/result.php?loeb=1178 It seems that Henrik forgot to settle in. Notice Anders Christensen - he seemed to want to see how long he could stay ahead in one of the fastest light weight races ever... Eventually he had a rendezvous with reality. The preliminaries required sub ...

Today at the Danish Nationals Henrik Stephansen broke Eskild Ebbesens Danish record - the same record which was the WR until Luini broke it. Henrik erged 6:03.0!! This is then also the sceond fastest time ever by a light weight. Mads Rasmussen finished second in 6:06.5 and Rasmus Quist third in 6:08...

EEs' very fast start and slow (slow haha) middle and very fast finish isn't a weakness. Eskild once put it like this "While no meters come for free some are cheaper than others!"

What does R36+ mean? Well, it will be interesting to see how he responds if challenged. He doesn't seem to have Eskilds finish but then again who ever did? If he isn't seriously challenged at WIRC I guess there is a risk that we will not know because at only 18 there is a chance/risk that he will im...

Check the video of his 6:06.5 junior WR at the same website: http://www.quistmedia.dk/roklub/sm/video/sm06_henrik.html To me he doesn't look like a guy pushing max. This was also the case at the Danish nationals where he also looked fairly relaxed. Either he is hiding pain exceptionally well or I th...

Is he going to be in the Open Light event finally or is he still 18 and under?

Henrik will join Mads and Eskild in the Open LWT.

I wonder who else is comming (who can put them under pressure) Anyone knows?

Despite VERY poor lightning (very little and yellow) my friend Peter succeded in taking some good pictures at the Danish Nationals:

Check it out here:
http://ro.haj.dk

Especially some of those of Juliane Elander, Eskild E., Henrik S. and Mads R. are really good.

The results with splits and stroke stats.:
http://www.c2euroopen.dk/ergometertider ... tta=dm2007

Juliane Elander won the Women open LWT in an impressive 7:04 The men’s open LWT stood between Eskild, Mads and Henrik. Eskild went out in his usual style and was immediately in front. Mads started to dig in and caught Eskild at about 450. At about 500m Henrik kept going at 1:31-1:32 for another 700m...

There have been prices at ergohead for several years: 1000€ for breaking the 6K record (about 11-1200$): amstelroei.nl/site/?ID=95.
Mads Rasmussen and Juliane Elander have been going there for the last 3 years peeling a few seconds off every year.

Report on Henrik Stephansens latest 6:06.5 Junior WR plus other info (link published on UK forum site): tinyurl.com/295tgj The video of Eskild Ebbesens 2004 +30 LWT WR is back online: tinyurl.com/youubg Eskild Ebbesen, Henrik Stephansen and Mads Rasmussen (who rowed 6:05.8 a few weeks back) will cla...