Kallfelz and Carlson Win Championship Singles at Head of the Charles

U.S. National Team members Emily Kallfelz and Ezra Carlson won the championship single sculls on Saturday, while the USRowing women's four with coxswain and men's eight won their championship races on Sunday at the 2022 Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, Mass.

Nearly 2,500 crews from approximately 790 clubs raced at the famed regatta on the Charles River.

In Saturday's championship singles races, Kallfelz, the Cambridge Boat Club sculler who was a member of the U.S. women's quadruple sculls that raced at the 2022 World Rowing Championships in September in Racice, Czech Republic, covered the course in a 19:04.170 to finish just over four seconds ahead of Hawkes Bay Rowing Club's Emma Twigg, the reigning Olympic single sculls champion from New Zealand. ARION's Kristi Wagner, who raced the women's double sculls at the 2022 World Championships and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, finished third.

In the men's event, Green Racing Project's Ezra Carlson bested California Rowing Club's Chris Carlson by nearly 17 seconds to record the victory. Ezra Carlson, who was an alternate on the 2022 World Championships' squad, finished the course in a 17:28.753, while Chris Carlson, who competed in the men's eight at this year's world championships, crossed the finish line in a 17:45.711. New York Athletic Club's Eliot Putnam finished third.

Sarasota Crew's Molly Reckford, who won a silver medal in the lightweight women's double sculls in Racice, won the lightweight women's single sculls by 21 seconds over Narragansett Boat Club's Brigid Kennedy.

Saturday's women's championship double sculls saw ARION's Savannah Brija and Kate Horvat take the victory in a 17:50.316. Brija was part of the women's quadruple sculls in Racice. The duo finished 33 seconds ahead of the USRowing exhibition pair of Allyson Baker and Kelsey Reelick and 37 seconds ahead of the double of Margaret Hedeman and Cara Stawicki. Baker, Reelick, and Stawicki all raced at this year's world championships across different boat classes.

The German crew from Frankfurter Rudergesellschaft Germania won the men's championship double in a 16:01.349, with the California Rowing Club/Penn Athletic Club composite crew of Sorin Koszyk and Thomas Phifer finishing five seconds behind in second position. Koszyk and Phifer won the B final in the men's double at the 2022 World Championships, finishing seventh overall. Chris Bak, who won the men's solo event at the 2022 World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals, finished third with Polish rower Maciej Zawojski.

In Sunday's men's championship eight, the USRowing crew of Henry Hollingsworth, Alexander Hedge, Michael Clougher, Liam Corrigan, Michael Knippen, Pieter Quinton, Ezra Carlson, Chris Carlson, and coxswain James Catalano defeated Syracuse University by just under 10 seconds to win the title. The USRowing boat finished with a time of 13:23.638. In the women's championship four, the USRowing crew of Charlotte Buck, Alina Hagstrom, Kelsey Reelick, Madeleine Wanamaker, and coxswain Hannah Broadland won the race by 34 seconds over Brown University. The USRowing boat covered the course in a 16:48.415.

Three U.S. Para rowing boats raced in Boston. The PR3 mixed four with coxswain of Emilie Eldracher, Saige Harper, Andrew Wigren, Molly Moore, and Jaclyn Smith clocked a 19:35.502 to win the mixed para legs/trunk/arms four with coxswain, while PR3 double sculls duo of Todd Vogt and Pearl Outlaw finished fourth in the mixed para inclusion double event. Eldracher, Harper, Wigren, Outlaw, Vogt, and Moore joined Andrew Todd, Ben Washburne, and Johanna Beyer in the Directors' Challenge Mixed Eight as an all-Para crew, finishing ninth in a 16:57.638.

For complete results and more information on the Head of the Charles Regatta, click here.

USRowing would like to thank Filippi Lido, the Official Boat Supplier for the U.S. Senior, Under 23, and Para Rowing National Teams. Under the agreement, Filippi is providing USRowing a fleet of boats for international competitions including the World Rowing Cup regattas, World Rowing Under 23 Championships, World Rowing Championships, Olympic Games, and Paralympic Games, as well as a domestic training fleet for the USRowing Training Center.