10 June 2023

By Göran R Buckhorn

Today, it is time for the 156th edition of the Yale-Harvard Regatta (or Harvard-Yale Regatta, if you like) on the Thames River in New London, Connecticut. This will be the final race for Yale’s Craig W. Johnson ’68 Head Coach Steve Gladstone, 82, who, after 13 seasons at the helm of the Bulldogs, will retire. Earlier this year, Gladstone won his fifth Ivy League Coach of the Year Award. His coaching career has lasted for slightly more than 50 years.

Last year, Yale won all four races for the first time in 26 years – the 1 Varsity crew set the upstream record. And it started well for the Bulldogs as they won the 4 Varsity/Combination Race yesterday, thereby taking the James P. Snider Cup.

Here are the times for the three races today:
2:15 p.m. – 3 Varsity (2 miles, Mamacoke Hill to Bartlett’s Cove) for the New London Cup.
3:00 p.m. – 2 Varsity (3 miles, Coast Guard Academy to Bartlett’s Cove) for the F. Valentine Chappell Trophy
4:00 p.m. – 1 Varsity (4 miles, Gold Star Bridge to Bartlett’s Cove) for the Sexton Cup

Lineups (as given on the teams’ websites. Changes may be made on race day.)

Yale 1 Varsity
Bow Harry Geffen / London, England
2 Liam Galloway / Ridgefield, Connecticut
3 Marcus Emmett / Melbourne, Australia
4 Yaroslav Mikhaylov / Brookline, Massachusetts
5 Syvert Senumstad / Kristiansand, Norway
6 Miles Beeson / Aberdeen, Scotland
7 Nick Rusher / West Bend, Wisconsin
Stroke Fergus Hamilton / Jindera, Australia
Cox Harry Keenan / Sydney, Australia

Harvard 1 Varsity
Bow Josh Brangan / Lymington, England
2 Oscar Olsen / London, England
3 Jack Dorney / Monkstown, Ireland
4 Leo Bessler / Tacoma, Washington
5 Cameron Beyki / Reading, England
6 Douwe de Graaf / London, England
7 Thomas Horncastle / London, England
Stroke Clark Dean / Sarasota, Florida
Cox Edward Bracey / Salisbury, England

Yale 2 Varsity
Bow Jakov Bijelic / Zagreb, Croatia
2 Benjamin Wiegand / Kenilworth, Illinois
3 Alexander McClean / Sydney, Australia
4 Daniel Williamson / Auckland, New Zealand
5 Zac Day / England
6 Alex Potter / Sydney, Australia
7 Matthew Hansen / London, England
Stroke Luca Liautaud / London, England
Cox Thomas Allen / Mill Valley, California

Harvard 2 Varsity
Bow Kenny Coplan / Montclair, New Jersey
2 Alexander Grundy / Henley-on-Thames, England
3 Alexander Sullivan / Brisbane, Australia
4 Thomas Macky / Melbourne, Australia
5 Patrick Adams / Tadley, England
6 Apostolos Lykomitros / Thessaloniki, Greece
7 Calvin Tarczy / London, England
Stroke Owen Marcovitz / Victoria, Canada
Cox Isabella Rhyu / Menlo Park, California

Yale 3 Varsity
Bow Josh Hill / Victoria, Australia
2 Joe Long / Chalfont St. Peter, England
3 Archie McChesney / Oxford, England
4 Honza Vacek / Prague, Czech Republic
5 Cameron Matossian / Rye, New York
6 Seth Hope / Cambridge, New Zealand
7 Patrick Craig / London, England
Stroke Nikola Bakoc / Belgrade, Serbia
Cox Justin Lobo / La Jolla, California

Harvard 3 Varsity
Bow Henry Jones / London, England
2 Fergus Ritchie / Hastings, England
3 Gabriel Obholzer / London, England
4 Liam Downing / Vienna, Virginia
5 Max Shakespeare / Salisbury, England
6 Simon Nunayon / London, England
7 Marty Kulesza / Melbourne, Australia
Stroke Tyler Horler / Sarasota, Florida
Cox Benjamin Ray / Kingston-on-Thames, England

For the last years, there have been many foreigners racing both for Harvard and Yale, and this year will be no exception. Out of the 54 rowers and coxes this year in the 1V, 2V and 3V crews, only 13 are Americans. The Englishmen are in the overwhelming majority with 22 crew members (including 10 from London!), and then we have nine Australians, two New Zealanders and one each from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Greece and Norway – an international regatta, indeed.

Total Records
1 Varsity (Sexton Cup): Harvard 95 – Yale 59 (1 no result)
2 Varsity (F. Valentine Chappell Trophy): Harvard 77 – Yale 40
3 Varsity (New London Cup): Harvard 75 – Yale 41 (1 dead heat)