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2016 Dominators Update

It’s time once again to update the list of The Dominators: those who have finished the season ranked #1 in at least five of the ten* events in their gender/weight/age group since the rankings began in 2000.

Pride of place goes to Anne Bourlioux (F-H, 50-59) who swept the board and set three world records doing so (500m, 1K, 60min). Anne has earned ten #1s in three of the past four years.

For the second year in a row, Steve Roedde (M-L, 60-69) earned nine #1s. Steve remains the seventh person to capture nine.

Justine Reston (F-L, 40-49) followed up her impressive 2015 debut with eight #1s. She bettered six of the world records she set last year (5K, 6K, 30min, 10K, 60min, HM), and added one at 1K. Justine is the 16th person to earn eight #1s in a season.

Mari Friend (F-L, 70-79) captured seven #1s. Since 2000, 25 people have finished the season with seven #1s.

Next with six #1s was Marjorie Roome (F-H, 60-69). This is the second year she’s done it; she remains the 27th erger to earn six.

The 2016 list finishes with Andrew Jakubowski (M-H, 80-89), Arwed Egger (M-L, 50-59), Margit Haar Hansen (F-H, 40-49), who set four world records (30min, 60min, HM, M), Elizabeth Feldman (F-L, 60-69) and Gillian Burrell (F-L, 80-89), each of whom had the five #1s within a single age/weight group needed to become a Dominator.

Finally, last year’s summary omitted Philip Price (M-L, 80-89), who had five #1s. I apologize for the error.


The Life-Time Standings are now:

Multiple Years a Dominator (bold) and yearly #1s:

Nine
Luanne Mills: 2003 (5), 2004 (3), 2005 (6), 2006 (4), 2007 (4), 2008 (9), 2009 (8), 2010 (1H, 7L), 2011 (9), 2012 (7H, 3L), 2013 (2H, 5L), 2014 (5H, 2L), 2015 (2H), 2016 (4H)

Eight
Robert Spenger: 2005 (5), 2006 (10), 2007 (9), 2008 (6), 2010 (8), 2011 (9), 2012 (3), 2014 (1)), 2015 (6H), 2015 (8L), 2016 (3)

Seven
TJ Oesterling: 2004 (3), 2005 (1), 2008 (2), 2009 (10), 2010 (10), 2011 (9), 2012 (10), 2013 (10), 2014 (8), 2015 (5), 2016 (2)

Six
Anne Bourlioux: 2010 (3), 2011 (6), 2012 (9), 2013 (10), 2014 (10), 2015 (9), 2016 (10)
Roger Bangay: 2000 (2), 2006 (1), 2007 (1), 2008 (6), 2009 (6), 2010 (8), 2011 (6), 2012 (7), 2013 (6), 2014 (3)

Five
Shirley Godkin: 2007 (8), 2008 (8), 2009 (9), 2010 (8), 2011 (7), 2012 (4)
Mari Friend: 2009 (5), 2010 (8), 2011 (9), 2014 (3), 2015 (6), 2016 (7)

Four
Jen Howse: 2009 (5), 2010 (5), 2011 (7), 2012 (7), 2014 (2), 2015 (3)
Mary Perrot: 2000 (2), 2001 (5), 2002 (5), 2003 (6), 2004 (6), 2007 (1), 2008 (3)
Marianne Gram: 2000 (5), 2001 (5), 2002 (7), 2006 (1), 2012 (7)
Nik Fleming: 2001 (5), 2002 (6), 2003 (5), 2004 (1), 2009 (6)

Three
Joan van Blom: 2004 (1), 2005 (1), 2006 (2), 2007 (8), 2008 (6), 2010 (2), 2011 (1), 2012 (1), 2013 (5), 2014 (1)
Gregory Cook: 2007 (3), 2008 (7), 2009 (6), 2010 (7), 2011 (4)
Steve Roedde: 2014 (8 60-69, 1 50-59), 2015 (9), 2016 (9)
Kent Timm: 2000 (3), 2001 (5), 2002 (4), 2003 (4), 2004 (5), 2005 (5)
Hilary Weeks: 2001 (8), 2004 (2), 2005 (1), 2006 (7), 2007 (3), 2008 (5)
Anna Bailey: 2002 (7), 2003 (10), 2004 (5), 2005 (1), 2006 (1), 2009 (1)
Duncan Paterson: 2001 (4), 2002 (6), 2003 (6), 2004 (2), 2009 (6)
Arlene Wade: 2007 (6), 2008 (6), 2009 (7), 2012 (1), 2014 (1)
Marjorie Roome: 2012 (3), 2013 (6), 2014 (1), 2015, 2016 (6)
Rod Freed: 2000 (2), 2001 (5), 2002 (6), 2003 (6)
Arwed Egger: 2014 (5), 2015 (5), 2016 (5)

Two
Graham Benton: 2002 (1), 2003 (5), 2004 (2), 2005 (2), 2006 (3), 2007 (1), 2008 (3), 2009 (2), 2010 (1), 2011 (1), 2012 (2), 2014 (5), 2015 (3), 2016 (4)
Roger Burrell: 2002 (8), 2003 (7), 2004 (4), 2005 (2), 2012 (2), 2014 (1)
Anne Cresswell: 2009 (3), 2010 (8), 2011 (2), 2012 (5), 2014 (3)
Dwayne Adams: 2002 (1), 2003 (2), 2004 (6), 2005 (10), 2006 (3), 2007 (1)
Dean Smith: 2007 (7), 2008 (4), 2009 (2), 2010 (5), 2014 (1)
Andrew Benko: 2008 (4), 2011 (5), 2012 (8)
Birgit Juel-Hansen: 2003 (6), 2004 (6), 2005 (4), 2013 (1)
Malcolm Fawcett: 2003 (4), 2004 (7), 2005 (5)
Greg Trahar: 2008 (1), 2009 (6), 2010 (6), 2011 (3)
Shelagh Allen: 2000 (1), 2002 (6), 2004 (1), 2009 (6), 2010 (1)
Justine Reston: 2015 (7), 2016 (8)
Sam Garber: 2012 (5), 2013 (5)

Lifetime #1 Rankings**:

86 Luanne Mills
70 TJ Oesterling
68 Robert Spenger
57 Anne Bourlioux
46 Roger Bangay
44 Shirley Godkin
38 Mari Friend
35 Graham Benton
30 James Crawford
29 Jen Howse
28 Mary Perrot
28 Joan van Blom
27 Gregory Cook
27 Steve Roedde
26 Kent Timm
26 Hilary Weeks
26 Gillian Burrell
25 Anna Bailey
25 Marianne Gram
25 Roger Burrell
25 Anne Cresswell
24 Duncan Paterson
24 David Woodard
23 Dwayne Adams
23 Nik Fleming
23 Arlene Wade
23 Marjorie Roome
20 Andrew Benko
20 Dean Smith
19 Rod Freed
17 Birgit Juel-Hansen
17 Elizabeth Sharis
16 Malcolm Fawcett
16 Greg Trahar
15 Shelagh Allen
15 Michael van Beuren
15 Arwed Egger
15 Justine Reston
14 Keith Colman
13 Ann Irish
12 Janet Kennedy
12 Denis Melody
12 Ingrid Petersen
11 Stephen Rounds
10 Donald Alden
10 Jostein Vadla
10 Kate Metalli
10 Anibal Sanchez-Salazar
10 Edward Budimier
10 Sam Garber
10 Heather Koerber


All Hail!

* For historical continuity, 100m, 1min, 4min and 100K are not included; an official WR not listed in the rankings is credited with a #1 in that event.
** Limited to those who have a life-time total of at least ten #1 rankings.

Thanks Ralph for your annual labour of love
I think Terry Dargan had 5 number 0nes last season too by my count. (70+ lwtm)

You're welcome, Lindsay. And thank you for catching the omission of Terry Dargan. In checking my spreadsheet, I see I also omitted Tiina Kapten. The list of Lifetime #1s should finish with:

10 Donald Alden
10 Jostein Vadla
10 Kate Metalli
10 Anibal Sanchez-Salazar
10 Edward Budimier
10 Sam Garber
10 Terry Dargan
10 Tiina Kapten
10 Heather Koerber

I apologize to Mr. Dargan and Ms. Kapten.

Great work.
Really impressive runs there from the individuals
Nice to know someone is taking the time to honour their time and effort put in.
Also gives us ' youngsters ' something to aim for..

Anna Lewis set 14 British Lwt & Hwt records in the last 6 months together with 6 world records ranging through all the distances/times in the 30-39 Hwt/lwt categories. She does not bother ranking her times online but the records get verified. There is a stat for you

What happens when someone breaks a world record that is better than the ranking? Do you still give credit to the top ranked person despite them not actually being the quickest?

j.d wrote:Anna Lewis set 14 British Lwt & Hwt records in the last 6 months together with 6 world records ranging through all the distances/times in the 30-39 Hwt/lwt categories. She does not bother ranking her times online but the records get verified. There is a stat for you

Most top rows are not ranked. Our nat championships often have lots of pretty good to very good 2k, up to low 5.40 ies, those are never ranked. The last few years 13/1400 participans

The whole system is faulty, individual times c2 can,t help, but if even pretty big races are not ranked

j.d wrote:Anna Lewis set 14 British Lwt & Hwt records in the last 6 months together with 6 world records ranging through all the distances/times in the 30-39 Hwt/lwt categories. She does not bother ranking her times online but the records get verified. There is a stat for you

Yes, I do have her WRs in my spreadsheet. One question, though -- is the year wrong or her age wrong for the HM Hwt record:

21097 30-39 Anna Lewis F Lwt 37 GBR 1:22:50.2 2016 PM Verification Code
21097 30-39 Anna Lewis F Hwt 35 GBR 1:23:18.4 2016 Witnessed at public club

j.d wrote:What happens when someone breaks a world record that is better than the ranking? Do you still give credit to the top ranked person despite them not actually being the quickest?

* For historical continuity, 100m, 1min, 4min and 100K are not included; an official WR not listed in the rankings is credited with a #1 in that event.

hjs wrote: Most top rows are not ranked. Our nat championships often have lots of pretty good to very good 2k, up to low 5.40 ies, those are never ranked. The last few years 13/1400 participants

The whole system is faulty, individual times c2 can,t help, but if even pretty big races are not ranked

C2 does rank race results if they receive them from the race organizers.

hjs wrote:
Most top rows are not ranked. Our nat championships often have lots of pretty good to very good 2k, up to low 5.40 ies, those are never ranked. The last few years 13/1400 participans

The whole system is faulty, individual times c2 can,t help, but if even pretty big races are not ranked

This is why the majority of the people on the list are in the "advanced" age categories (i.e. 60+). Young (top) rowers are usually not ranking their pieces (very few do) and are not testing 10 different distances every year - they may test as little as 2 distances (2k/6k).

ArmandoChavezUNC wrote:

hjs wrote:
Most top rows are not ranked. Our nat championships often have lots of pretty good to very good 2k, up to low 5.40 ies, those are never ranked. The last few years 13/1400 participans

The whole system is faulty, individual times c2 can,t help, but if even pretty big races are not ranked

This is why the majority of the people on the list are in the "advanced" age categories (i.e. 60+). Young (top) rowers are usually not ranking their pieces (very few do) and are not testing 10 different distances every year - they may test as little as 2 distances (2k/6k).

True, otw rowers care about otw, the erg is just a tool. I sometimes see training pieces coming along which do impress a lot.

This is not an official thing though - just Ralph spending a fair bit of time crunching data of interest and good on him.
Surely no biggies if people don't choose to rank or the like - just a bit of fun (and if they want to they always can)

lindsayh wrote:This is not an official thing though - just Ralph spending a fair bit of time crunching data of interest and good on him.
Surely no biggies if people don't choose to rank or the like - just a bit of fun (and if they want to they always can)

Absolutely - I'm not trying to take away anything from the hard work that Ralph put into this.

Ralph - d.o.b 14/06/78 she is actually 38 now, all the world records and british records were set this year except the Hwt 1km, thats been there for a little while. So in essense she really is top of all this years 30s distances just has not ranked them, except her 6:57.0 2km