...Free coasted home at 17:55.26, ahead of fellow qualifiers Steve Tucker of Medford, Mass., and Germany's Marcel Hacker, the bronze medalist in the single sculls at Sydney.

...with a 2 3/4 -length win over England's Richard Briscoe. Koven, the defending champion, will face Germany's Marcel Hacker in the final. Hacker beat 1997 champion Greg Searle in his semifinal. There will be an all-American final in the...

...players. ROWER SHINES: Juri Jaanson, who is from Estonia and trains in Augusta, beat two-time world champion Marcel Hacker of Germany to win the men's single scull at the Rowing World Cup on Sunday in Poland. Jaanson is a four-time Olympian...

...meters, but faltered over the final 1,000 meters to finish sixth, just under nine seconds behind bronze medalist Marcel Hacker of Germany. Jaanson's greatest moment in international competition came in 1995, when he won the silver medal in...

...Augusta, by three lengths. Former world champion Jamie Koven lost the Diamond Challenge Sculls final to Germany's Marcel Hacker. Koven fell two lengths behind when Hacker powered off the start and never made up the difference as the German won...