Otago Wins 2Km Erg Race In China May 2, 2009 Otago University's Fergus Fauvel has won the 2000m Erg Race event at the International University Regatta in China. With the pollution, heat and humidity making erging extremely difficult he managed to finish in a time of 6:02 just three seconds short of his 5:59 PB. Fergus was three seconds ahead of second place Yale University and comfortably ahead of the competitors from Milan and Copenhagen.