Bay Area Rowers Help Men's Eight Crew Advance to Final

Graduates from Cal and Stanford were apart of a heat-winning men's eight crew team.

Three U.S. rowers with Bay Area ties helped the U.S. men’s eight crew advance to final, Saturday.

Stanford graduates David Banks and Jake Cornelius along with Cal graduate and Piedmont native Zach Vlahos helped the U.S. team cover the 2,000-meter course in in 5 minutes, 30.72 seconds to beat Australia, Poland and Ukraine.

If the team expects to leave London with a medal, it will need to improve. In the next heat, Germany (5:25.52), Great Britain (5:27.1) and the Netherland (5:28.99) all turned in better time. Because the U.S. and German teams won their heats, they automatically advanced to Wednesday’s final.

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