Weiss Claims Gold at World Rowing U-23 Championships

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia’s Izzi Weiss (Chicago, Ill.) earned a gold medal and Heidi Long (Buckinghamshire, England) and Martine van den Boomgaard (Amsterdam, Netherlands) earned silver medals at the 2018 World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Poznan, Poland, on Saturday (July 28).
 
Weiss coxed the United States to a gold medal in the women’s four as the Americans topped runner-up Great Britain 7:02.600-7:08.970.
 
“We were really excited about the adding of the coxed four this year,” Weiss said. “We had no idea what to expect and no gold medal standard to train off of. We picked up a lot of speed in Princeton and were just excited to race it and see where we stacked up internationally. We couldn’t have been happier with the results. It was truly the race of a lifetime.” 
 
Great Britain’s Long and teammate Hannah Scott earned silver in the women’s pair with a time of 7:33.690.
 
The Netherlands’ van den Boomgaard earned a silver medal in the women’s quadruple sculls with a time of 7:43.880. UVA junior Isabella Strickler (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), making her U-23 championship debut, and the United States placed sixth in the women’s quadruple sculls.
 
Action at the World U-23 Championships concludes Sunday (July 29) with the women’s eight. Ellie Stewart (London, England) and Morgan Rosts (Jordan, Ontario) will look to extend UVA’s streak of having at least one student-athlete on the gold-medal winning women’s eight at the U-23 Championships to nine consecutive years.
 
Fans can follow the action online at wru23ch2018.com.