Wednesday 5 November
The world of indoor rowing has come to the Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games in 2014 for the fifth time since 2006 with the sport setting the world on fire with new national and international tournaments all over the world.
What was once a way for rowers to train off the water has now become a sport in its own right. And this was never more evident than this morning at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre where no less than six Australian records were broken.
Bill Hatfield has been water rowing for the past 55 years. His family are all involved in the sport with his daughter partnering up with her dad for a double skulls event.
Bill is an experienced rower who often competes in indoor rowing competitions. This morning he made his Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games debut at indoor rowing and absolutely smashed the Australian record for the 500m men’s 70 – 79 open category.
Bill currently competes in the single skull on water and has already taken a gold medal home at these games for the event. It was the lure of indoor rowing that Bill was most excited about.
“I competed and won gold in this event at the 194 Australian Masters Games and I’ve been desperate to get that gold back,” Bill said.
“Never did I expect to beat the record by seven seconds.”
Hatfield will compete again tomorrow in both the 1000m and 2000m individual events.
“I’m expecting the same type of results tomorrow. A good nights rest and I’ll be ready to go again.”
Six Australian records tumbled during today’s indoor rowing event:
The indoor rowing continues tomorrow with the 1000M and 2000M races across all age groups. Word on the rowing street is that many more Australian and possibly world marks will be beaten.
The new scheme was born here and filagra this is not anything that we would like to see. Caverta although better in some elements but not important for us.
