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Robbie Manson, confident, looks at the world championships in gold after taking up the challenge of Mahe Drysdale.
Manson won the gold medal at the last World Cup Regatta of the season in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Sunday night (NZT) to seal his place as New Zealand's men's representative at the 2018 World Championships in Bulgaria in September
In front of the fourth, Drysdale, who defeated Ondrej Synek, three-time Olympic champion and three-time Olympic medalist in the Czech Republic, who nearly lost his train shortly after the half-way point . Manson's victory in six minutes and 55.30 seconds was more than four seconds ahead of American Oliver Zeidler, silver medalist, Synek third and Drysdale fourth, almost seven seconds behind Manson.
"I have been much faster than Mahe all year and it is good to go out there and keep the same margin as all year" said Manson.
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Now, Manson Wants Gold to Plovdiv, After a Disappointing Effort at the World Championships Last Year when an accumulation hampered by an injury played a role in him being unable to reproduce the kind of form that saw him score the world's best time during the World Cup season.
"It would be nice to do what I did not manage to do last year." Manson said:
Manson admitted that there was a lot to do on his World Cup campaign, with him and Drysdale seeking to be New Zealand's world champions A skiffer and an early challenge at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Drysdale will now sit down on the world champions, but said Stuff earlier that he would continue to push towards Tokyo, no matter what happened in Europe.
Manson did not go on. not expect a similar situation next year, with the New Zealand national season likely to decide the superiority. "19659016]" I think he [Drysdale’s] had a lifeline this year – I do not imagine it will be exactly the same as this year, but I do not know what he will do. I imagine that he will hang out and try to come back in one way or another.
"I have to keep doing what I can do and go as fast as I can – that's my only goal."
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The New Zealand women's eight won gold – one of five kiwi boats.
Manson says he does not let the head-to-head fight rob him
"You can only control what you can do, which has been my main goal – to go as far as I can go
"I just did what we do and do the same training as the rest of the team did – I would not say that I prepared differently for this regatta.
Manson said that he felt "really confident" by going to the finals.
"I felt better and better at every race of the weekend and I had a very good training block in recent weeks, you can never be 100% sure, but I I trusted the training I did. "
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World Champions Brooke Donoghue and Olivia Loe continued to dominate the Women's Doubles.
One of his challenges in Bulgaria will be the young Zeidler, 21, who has rapidly risen through the ranks after recently entering the sport after a swimming career. Manson said that he quickly became friends with his rival.
"It's a great guy, Ollie – we've done a lot of training together over the past two weeks in Munich, we're good friends now."
New Zeland boats won six medals in Lucerne – five gold medals through Manson, eight women, two couples, two ladies and two men, and silver in both of light weight couple.
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