Thursday, 8 April 2021

Sinković Brothers at European Championships: Champion Croatian Rowers after Gold Medal in Italy

April 8, 2021 - After several months of competition break, champion Croatian rowers brothers Valent and Martin Sinković are racing this weekend.

24 Sata reports that the Sinković brothers set off for the European Championships, to be held from April 9 to 11, 2021, in Varese, Italy. 629 athletes from 35 countries registered for the regatta, and Italy, the host country, has the largest number of registered crews.

"I think our biggest competition will be the Italians and the Romanians. The Dutch are tough on the first part of the track we learned last year. However, the boat is good, we are satisfied, and we can’t wait to race with the others. We hope for good competition, we will do our best to row the best we know, and then there is no fear for a good result," said Martin Sinković.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the international rowing season in 2020, only the European Championship was held, so the Croatian champion rowers are facing an exciting year of competition. According to the event management guidelines, the Varese Organizing Committee and the World Rowing Federation have developed a COVID-19 protection plan for organizing sporting events based on World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations to ensure that all participants in the European Rowing Championships are at the lowest possible risk of infection. 

"After last year's lockdown, the cancellation of the Olympics, and the whole new situation due to the pandemic, we have finally welcomed a big competition. It was a long winter, we trained well, we are ready, we feel excellent, and we can't wait for the races," said Valent Sinković.

The first race is scheduled for Friday, the semifinals are on Saturday, and the finals on Sunday.

Last year, of the rowing competitions, only the European Championship was held in which the Sinković brothers won second place. The next competition and another stop on the way to the Olympics in Tokyo is the World Rowing Cup, which is being held for the first time in history at Zagreb's Jarun from April 30 to May 2.

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Sunday, 2 June 2019

Sinković Brothers Defend European Championship Title in Lucerne!

The Sinković brothers are the 2019 European champions in rowing!

Brothers Martin and Valent Sinković won the gold medal in the coxless pairs at the European Rowing Championships in Lucerne, while Luka Radonić in the lightweight single sculls and Damir Martin in the single sculls remained without a medal, reports Gol.hr on June 2, 2019. 

The Sinković brothers have thus defended the European championship title in dominant fashion and now boast four gold medals from European Championships.

The Sinković brothers started strong in the final and at 500 meters, they already had more than a two-second advantage. Halfway through the race, they increased their lead even more.

By the end, the Zagreb duo quietly controlled the race and hit the finish line with a time of 6:22.460 minutes, ahead of Romania (6.24.530) and Spain (6: 26.310).

The two-time European champion Damir Martin took fifth place in the final of the single sculls with a time of 6.55.590 minutes. The European gold was won by German rower Ziedler with a time of 6:47.320.

Martin started a little slower and 500 meters was only sixth. Halfway through the race, he. Improved to the fifth place, but in the end, he did not have the strength to get closer to the leaders.

Luka Radonić took the fourth place in the final of lightweight single sculls with a time of 7:06.490 minutes.

The winner was Hungarian Galambos, and Luka was behind the third-placed Italian Goretti by more than four seconds.

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Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Sinković Brothers Ready for Gold at European Rowing Championships in Lucerne

Martin and Valent Sinković, better known as the Sinković brothers, will participate at the European Rowing Championship held in Lucerne, Switzerland this weekend, which will feature almost 600 athletes from 34 countries this year, reports HRT on May 28, 2019. 

After competing in the European Championship for the first time in the new discipline of coxless pairs last year and immediately winning the gold, this year's European Championship brings two challenges for the celebrated Sinković brothers. The first challenge is, of course, defending the title, and the second is competing in a new boat which will be used for the first time in history. Namely, the Sinković brothers will be the first rowers to take on the new Filippi boat at an official FISA competition, said Valent Sinković.

At the 1st World Cup in Plovdiv, the Sinković brothers won second place, losing out to the faster Serbian rowers Miloš Vasić and Martin Mačković. In the forthcoming European Championships, besides the Serbian crew, the Sinković brothers will compete against Romania, the silver medalists in last year's World Championship and the team from France who won bronze in the same competition. Of the other competitors, there is also the Czech crew, who won the bronze at the 3rd World Cup, as well as Italy who in 2017 defeated the Sinković brothers in the World Cup final by several hundredths of a second. 

“There is a lot more competition than the 1st World Cup. All the strongest crews are coming and we expect very even and interesting races. We are not afraid of anyone; we always give our maximum and fight for the gold,” said Martin Sinković.

The first qualifying race scheduled for May 31 is around 9:24 am. The semifinals are expected to be around 11:29 on June 1, and you can watch the final race on Sunday, June 2, from 11:25 on the HRT2 program.

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