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The 2006 British Indoor Rowing Championships are now under way in Birmingham UK.

Results and reports are being posted on the British C2 Forum:

Results (including stroke data) at http://www.concept2.co.uk/birc/results.php

Reports at http://www.concept2.co.uk/birc/reports.php

Highlights so far include yet another WR for Britain's Anna Bailey, and a Championship record for Forum regular Andreas van Tonder....

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That was a great row by Andreas, he is very consistant. It will be interesting to see if he, Dwaynne or Chad can go under 6' at Boston. With all together it will be a great race!

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Congratulations to Andreas Van Tonder on his easy win in M45-49. A nice controlled and steady row at 1:31 pace. In that kind of form he's looking good for taking out the WIRC. He's unlikely to see Chad or Dwayne front up to challenge him. I'd like to see him go under 6 minutes but unfortunately feel that it's probably just a few seconds beyond his limit.

You have to feel for his Sth African mate Englebrecht who was in one of the best races for the day, leading with 300m to go. He looked like he may just hang on for a win, coming home at 1.28, however Nick Fleming put in a monster finish winding up from 1:26 to 1:25 then 1:24 to win in sub 6 min by less than one second.

Looks like Ranger(Rich Cureton) is back in town with an easy win in lwt 55-59 race. He had at least 20 seconds over the rest of the field but his fast start probably cost him a chance at Dennis Hastings's WR. He was just a few seconds off. Ranger's last 500m at 1:42.1 was his slowest which ended up being the difference between him and the record.

No doubt Ranger on this forum will tell us how good he is and that sub 6:30 is just an easy row away for WIRC.

Hey guys,

Thanks for the updates on the BiRCs. Have been reading the UK groups and checking the UK C2 pages' updates on times and such. Great stuff! Hope bunches of you come over to Boston in a few months to compete.

I saw the results for BiRC, very good row by Andreas. I did not realise that Andrea was now in the 45-49 event, this means that me and Andreas will not meet head to head unless we both enter the open event. Is this correct? Or do WiRC do the categories by 10 year age groups? This does not change the fact that I can race Dwayne; he will be in the 40-44 Hwts if it is done by 5 year age groups.
If WiRC is run by 10 year age groups, and Dwayne has the balls to show up, both me and Andreas can then kick his ass.

I have a lot of respect for Andreas, he has done many great rows, and he is the top 40+ Hwt at the moment.

Again Andreas, excellent performance.

Chad Williams wrote:I saw the results for BiRC, very good row by Andreas. I did not realise that Andrea was now in the 45-49 event, this means that me and Andreas will not meet head to head unless we both enter the open event. Is this correct? Or do WiRC do the categories by 10 year age groups? This does not change the fact that I can race Dwayne; he will be in the 40-44 Hwts if it is done by 5 year age groups.
If WiRC is run by 10 year age groups, and Dwayne has the balls to show up, both me and Andreas can then kick his ass.

I have a lot of respect for Andreas, he has done many great rows, and he is the top 40+ Hwt at the moment.

Again Andreas, excellent performance.

Forget Dwayne. Andreas is the man you have to beat at WIRC because unlike BIRC, the age group is 40-49 years. Dwayne won't show. However Andreas has been consistantly under 6:10 for several years now. At 6'6" and over 100kg he's a big strong guy. However don't discount the Europeans because every now and then a relatively unknown bloke turns up for WIRC and put in a sub 6:10 performance.

I should think that the men to beat, unless/until proven otherwise, are last year's 40-44 MHW medallists in Boston:

1 Eckhart, Ralph. Team Germany. 5:59.20
2 Bysted, Poul. Ægir. 6:05.00
3 Burke, Brian. Unaffiliated. 6:05.80

Rockin Roland wrote:

Chad Williams wrote:I saw the results for BiRC, very good row by Andreas. I did not realise that Andrea was now in the 45-49 event, this means that me and Andreas will not meet head to head unless we both enter the open event. Is this correct? Or do WiRC do the categories by 10 year age groups? This does not change the fact that I can race Dwayne; he will be in the 40-44 Hwts if it is done by 5 year age groups.
If WiRC is run by 10 year age groups, and Dwayne has the balls to show up, both me and Andreas can then kick his ass.

I have a lot of respect for Andreas, he has done many great rows, and he is the top 40+ Hwt at the moment.

Again Andreas, excellent performance.

Forget Dwayne. Andreas is the man you have to beat at WIRC because unlike BIRC, the age group is 40-49 years. Dwayne won't show. However Andreas has been consistantly under 6:10 for several years now. At 6'6" and over 100kg he's a big strong guy. However don't discount the Europeans because every now and then a relatively unknown bloke turns up for WIRC and put in a sub 6:10 performance.

Isn't Andreas more like 6'10" and 130kg? I've got a picture somewhere, he barely fit in the frame.

PaulS wrote:

Isn't Andreas more like 6'10" and 130kg? I've got a picture somewhere, he barely fit in the frame.

Don't tell me he's grown. What do they put in that water of Sth Africa?

Last time I met Andreas he appeared to be only a couple of inches taller than me, and I'm 6'4". As for his weight, he could only be 130kg if he was wearing all the indoor rowing medals he had won added to the worry on his shoulders on how to win his first Crash B hammer.

Rockin Roland wrote:

PaulS wrote:

Isn't Andreas more like 6'10" and 130kg? I've got a picture somewhere, he barely fit in the frame.

Don't tell me he's grown. What do they put in that water of Sth Africa?

Last time I met Andreas he appeared to be only a couple of inches taller than me, and I'm 6'4". As for his weight, he could only be 130kg if he was wearing all the indoor rowing medals he had won added to the worry on his shoulders on how to win his first Crash B hammer.

Must be the Metric conversion, or those Aussie rulers, I'd swear you are at least 6'7".

Of course the world of rowers looks tall to us Under six-two'ers....

Well done to Andreas, a fantatic row at BIRC, just missing out on his PB. I had a few chats with him during the day, he is a really nice bloke.

I would say he is around 6'4" tall and about the same wide.

Sir P

Andreas is about 1.95 metres. He is taller than me and I am 1:93. O yes he is a lot faster too

Hennie

Okay guys, I was just having a bit of fun with those that might be competing with (from the left) Andreas,along with Roland, Mr. Super Canoa, and Paul F at WIRC 2004.

PaulS wrote:Okay guys, I was just having a bit of fun with those that might be competing with (from the left) Andreas,along with Roland, Mr. Super Canoa, and Paul F at WIRC 2004.

Paul, why did you have to bring the truth to this forum
Just to put things in perspective: In the company to Antti Niskanin. John Dixon, Ralf Eckard, and Brian Burke,......I'm the smallest.(But also the oldest, except for John).