LINZ-OTTENSHEIM, Austria – Six Cal alums helped boats qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics at last week's World Rowing Championships.

Four former Bears qualified boats in the Eight, with Australia's Jacinta Edmunds (2016 alum) and Rosie Popa (2014) taking the silver medal. Recent alum Dana Moffat, the 2019 Pac-12 Women's Rowing Athlete of the Year, helped the United States to the bronze medal while 2017 alum Rowan McKellar and Great Britain finished fourth.

Kara Kohler, a 2012 Olympian, captured the bronze medal in the single sculls in only her second year in that discipline. Kohler, a 2014 Cal graduate, won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics in the quadruple sculls.

Sydney Payne, who also graduated in 2019, helped the Canadian Four punch a ticket to Tokyo next summer with a second-place finish in the B-final.

Other Bears who competed at Worlds included incoming freshman Annabel Oertel and alum Charlotte Wesselmann, who placed fifth in the B-final for the German Eight. Current senior Julianne Faralisch and Germany placed fourth in the C-final of the Four and alum Eeva Karpinnen of Finland was third in the E-final of the single sculls.

The 2019-20 season begins next month with the Head of the American in Lake Natoma.