Men's Single Sculls (M1X)Pre-Race AnalysisPreliminary HeatsWinners to Semi-finals. Others to Repechage. Heat 1BRA (Lane 1), KAZ, ITA, CAN, GBR, MEX (Lane 6) Derek Porter of CAN, 3rd at the 1999 Worlds, should win easily to qualify for the semi-finals. None of the other scullers in this race has any previous Worlds or Olympic experience. Heat 2PHI (Lane1), TUN, NZL, BUL, SVK, LAT (Lane 6) Rob Waddell of NZL, the 1998 and 1999 World Champion, should win comfortably to qualify for the semi-finals. Ivo Yankiev of BUL, 5th at the 1999 Worlds, is likely to save himself for the repechage, rather than challenge Waddell. Reinholds of LAT and Ziska of SVK, 9th and 12th at the 1999 Worlds, should do the same. Heat 3EST (Lane 1), PAK, CZE, GER, ARG, ALG (Lane 6) This is likely to be the most contested of the Men's singles heats. Vaclav Chalupa, 4th at the 1999 Worlds and at the Lucerne World Cup in July, should win comfortably. Challenges to him could come from Juri Janson of EST and Marcel Hacker of GER, but they are more likely to save themselves for the repechage. Heat 4CHI (Lane 1), USA, SUI, EGY, KOR, NED (Lane 6) Xeno Mueller of SUI, the defending Olympic Champion and winner over Waddell, Porter, Chalupa and the other favorites at the Vienna World Cup in June, should win this heat easily and advance to the semi-finals. Don Smith of the USA, who has done well in previous World sweep oared events, is new to sculling, relatively untested, and will likely use this as an experience race and save himself for a test in the repechage. Copyright 2000. Kent Mitchell.
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