Rio Recap: Ivies Showcase Strong Performances on Day 4
- mcmoore27
- Aug 10, 2016
- 3 min read
Day Four of the 2016 Rio Games was an exciting one for #IviesinRio. With 10 Ivies competing, Gevvie Stone and Kate Bertko advanced in rowing, while Ashleigh Johnson, Madison Hughes and Diana Matheson helped their teams pick up key wins in pool play.
Rowing
Gevvie Stone (Princeton ‘07) of Team USA, racing into the women’s single sculls, notched a nice win for the U.S. today, taking her quarterfinal with a strong win ahead of Jeannine Gmelin of Switzerland and Magdalena Lobnig of Austria. The win sends Stone to the Thursday semfinals races, where she will race for a spot in the finals. Stone posted the second-fastest time overall in the event during the quarterfinal round and looks to be in medal contention.
Also staying alive for medal contention is Kate Bertko (Princeton ‘06) and the U.S. lightweight women’s double sculls crew. Despite a bobble early in the race, the pair recovered to take the win in their repechage, and will race in the semifinals for a shot at the Olympic final on Wednesday.
The U.S. men’s pair of Anders Weiss (Brown ‘15) and Nareg Guregian did not advance out of the semifinals today. The crew will race in the B-finals on Thursday, for Olympic places 7-12.
The U.S. lightweight men’s four of Anthony Fahden (Dartmouth ‘08), Tyler Nase (Princeton ‘13) and Robin Prendes (Princeton ‘11) raced hard but missed out on qualification in the A-final of the LM4-. The Americans, which haven’t been in a LM4- final since the 2000 Olympics, posted a time of 6:26.82 and will compete in the B-finals Thursday morning at 8 a.m.
Water Polo
Ashleigh Johnson (Princeton ’17) and the U.S. Water Polo team made its debut today with an 11-4 win over Spain. The Goalkeeper stopped 11 of Spain’s 15 shots on the day - six in the first half. Johnson was a perfect 6-6 on shots from beyond five meters and had two saves in Spain’s three extra player shot attempts.
The U.S. returns to action Thursday at 10:40 a.m. ET against China. The game is scheduled to be shown on NBC.
Women’s Soccer
In the final group stage game, Diana Matheson (Princeton ’08) and the Canada women’s soccer team posted a 2-1 win over No. 2 Germany.
Canada, now 3-0, claims group F, and will advance to play in the quarterfinals on Friday.
Rugby
The U.S. men’s rugby team is the defending Olympic champions — even though that last gold medal came nearly a century ago. Rugby returned to the Olympics for the first time since 1924. Madison Hughes (Dartmouth ’15) and the U.S. Men’s Seven team lost its first pool match after Argentina scored on the final play of the match to win 17-14.
Hughes and the rest of Team USA bounced back in their second game of the day with a convincing 26-0 victory over Brazil. It was the first-ever Olympic rugby sevens win for the U.S. men. Rugby sevens is making its Olympic debut in Rio. When the sport was last played at the Olympics in 1924, it was the 15-a-side version of the game, and the U.S. won the gold medal.
Judo
Travis Stevens, a member of the U.S. Judo team coached by Jimmy Pedro (Brown ’94) captured a silver medal in the 81k weight class.Although Stevens was unable to top Russia’s Khasan Khalmurzaey in the final, his silver medal is the first medal for the U.S. in men’s judo since Pedro won a bronze medal at the 2004 Games.
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