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New Canaan's Andrew Campbell took the bronze medal Sunday in the men's 1x at the World Rowing Junior Championships in Racice, Czech Republic. Germany's Felix Bach won the race. Campbell rows out of Maritime Rowing Club in Norwalk. A June graduate of New Canaan High, he will continue his rowing career at Harvard University.
Campbell was in second place for the first 1,000 meters of the 2k-race. But Greece's Dionysios Angelopoulos moved into second place with 500 meters to go and held on to edge Campbell. Bach won in 7:01.33, followed by Angelopoulos in 7:05.18, and Campbell in 7:09.36.
Campbells performance tied the best-ever finish for a U.S. junior mens sculling crew, set at the 1976 Junior World Championships in former Czechoslovakia.
I entered the regatta with the hope of finaling; that was my goal, Andrew said.(Saturday's) (semifinal) race was the most stressful out of all of them. Once youre in the final, you just do the best as you can. I came into todays race a lot looser than before, and just let it rip. It turned out well. Im pretty proud that I could do this for my country and USRowing. Thats a long time without a medal.
Andrew finished third in Saturday's semifinals, trailing defending world champion Bach and Jakub Podrazil of the Czech Republic. Podrazil finished fifth in Sunday's final.
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