Washington Rowing alumna Jessica Thoennes ’18 finished fourth in the women’s pairs final Friday morning at the 2024 Olympic Games, matching the best American finish in that race category since 2000. Saturday, 10 UW alumni will race for medals on the final day of the regatta.
Thursday brought two more medals for UW alumni as Logan Ullrich ’23 and Phoebe Spoors ’17 earned silver & bronze in the men’s and women’s fours, both representing New Zealand.
Tabea Schendekehl ’20 became the first UW alumna to win an Olympic medal at the Paris games, helping lead the German quad sculls to a bronze medal on day five of the Olympic regatta.
On a relatively light day of action for UW alumni at the 2024 Olympics rowing venue, two former Huskies successfully advanced in the men’s single and double sculls.
A total of six more UW Rowing alumni earned berths in Olympics A finals Monday in Paris, as the United States men’s eight (Chris Carlson ’18, Rielly Milne ’18, Evan Olson ’19, Pieter Quinton ’21; plus coach Michael Callahan ’96) and the Great Britain men’s (Jacob Dawson ’16) and women’s (Holly Dunford ’22) eights won heats.
It was a successful second day of the 2024 Olympics regatta for UW alumni Sunday, as all three Huskies in action advanced successfully to the next level of competition in their events.
Four Washington Rowing alumni got their Olympic competition underway Saturday morning in Paris, with Simon van Dorp, Ben Davison, and Tabea Schendekehl all moving through directly to the next level.
There may be no richer tradition when it comes to Washington athletics than the Huskies’ Olympics rowing history. Dating back to “The Boys in the Boat” – the UW men’s crew that brought home a gold medal from the 1936 Berlin Games – Washington men and women have established a long track record of successes in the Olympics.
Washington’s national champion men’s varsity eight crew lost to Oxford Brookes University & Taurus Boat Club in the final of the Henley Royal Regatta Grand Challenge Cup in heart-breaking fashion, as the Huskies’ oars made contact with the booms on the edge of the race course midway through the race, bringing the boat nearly to a stop and ceding the British crew an insurmountable advantage.