Princeton Rowing Earns Five Medals at U-23 World Rowing Championships

PRINCETON – The Princeton Rowing Teams won five medals at the U-23 World Rowing Championships highlighted by Theo Bell's gold medal with the Great Britain 4- boat.

Bell, of the Princeton men's heavyweight team, and Great Britain won gold (5:47.08) by over two seconds in front of Australia (5:49.8) and France (5:51.11).

Erik Spinka (Heavies) and Nick Taylor (Heavies) helped the United States to a silver medal (5:28.9) just in front of Germany (5:28.99). Patrick Long (Heavies) and Australia corralled a fourth-place finish (5:31.49).

Katherine George of the women's crew unit picked up a silver for Great Britain with Vwaire Obukohwo (6:51.33), trailing just Romania (6:48.5). Switzerland was third (6:53.98).

Phaedra van der Molen (women's crew) and the Netherlands 4x just missed out on a silver medal by .56 seconds, securing a bronze (6:26.5), trailing Romania (6:23.29) and Czech Republic (6:26.0)

Marcus Chute (Heavies) and the Great Britain 4x were fourth in the A Final (5:47.57) behind Germany (5:43.17), Netherlands (5:45.72) and Australia (5:45.96).

David Van Velden and Hidde Lycklama of the men's lightweight squad represented the Netherlands in the 2x and were fifth in the A Final (6:27.6) behind Germany (6:19.56), Spain (6:21.45), France (6:22.71) and Ireland (6:25.08)

Emma Mirrer's (United States) of the women's lightweight rowing squad won her C Final (7:53.39) by over a second ahead of Bruna Parente of Portugal (7:55.07)

Trygve Bye Loken (heavies) helped Norway's 2- to third in the C Final.

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