HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England -- Cindy Bishop won the Princess Royal Cup, and New Hampshire's St. Paul's School captured the Princess Elizabeth Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta on Sunday.
Bishop, who races for Riverside Boat Club in Cambridge, Mass., easily outpaced South Africa's Rika Geyser and became the first American to win the category for female international single sculls.
"It feels good to be a Henley champion," said Bishop, who just missed a spot on the U.S. Olympic sculling team. "In fact, this is all good."
St. Paul's, in Concord, N.H., downed England's Abingdon School by 1¼ lengths in the final for schoolboy eights.
"I'd hoped they'd perform that way -- I knew they could," said St. Paul's coach Mike Herschfelder. "I think they had their most complete, best effort of the year."
Three other U.S. crews lost their finals on the Thames river.
Harvard was defeated by two-thirds of a length by a Dutch Olympic squad in the Grand Challenge Cup for international eights, while Princeton lost by three lengths to a composite English crew in the Remenham Cup for women's international eights. Harvard also lost the Ladies' Plate for sub-Olympic international eights.
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