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How will the TIME TRIAL / LIKE SPEED EVENTS be awarded?

Events are run as in the schedule, two on Sat and two on Sun.

Category-specific Time Trial results are age-adjusted using the Garret-Zezza tables. Based on those, like-speed crews are grouped into finals (do ignore the fact they are called heats in the Schedule, it's a sotfware quirk :). It is our hope that by placing you into a final with other like-speed boats, the excitement of racing crews of similar speed pushes you to have your best possible race.

Each crew will have their two times - the time trial time and the final race time - combined, to generate a single time representing a hypothetical 2000m (actually roughly 1900m) race time.

The Gold Medal Standard (GMS) is the theoretically predicted fastest possible time in which a crew of a particular class can race the Olympic distance of 2000m. In Canada, the GMS times are developed by Rowing Canada Aviron based on international gold medaling performances.

You can think of the GMS as a single 'target' time for any one category (boat class/size and gender) racing 2000m. By comparing all boats and genders against THEIR OWN target time, a percentage of how close to the target time they are can be calculated.  

'Ok, and what exactly does this have to do with us?', you ask. Well, just keep on reading ...

Results (combined times) of ALL 4 events are pooled together, then split into TWO main age categories:  Under-50, and 50-and-Over, thus splitting the group into roughly halves. This means that within these two groups crews of all four categories, W1x, W2x, M1x and M2x, compete against one another for prizes.

The awards are based on crews' respective GMS percentage (in other words by how close they are to their own GMS time), NOT on fastest raw times and/or age-adjusted race times.

CASH PRIZES for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for each of the TWO main age categories.
If a single wins, it is a different cash prize than if a double wins, as the entry fees are quite different and prize is shared in a 2x.
1st place = 3x entry fee     (1x: $150  ,  2x: $285)
2nd place = 2x entry fee       (1x: $100  ,  2x: $190)
3rd place = 1x entry fee + seat fees covered      (1x: $60  ,  2x: $110)

CERTIFICATE PRIZES for 1st place of each RAW (unadjusted) TIME:  ex: "Fastest W 1x", ...