O'Driscoll & O'Donovan Qualify for World Rowing Championships Semi-Final

1st September 2015

#Rowing – Ireland’s Shane O’Driscoll and Mark O’Donovan qualified for the semi-finals of the men’s lightweight pair by winning their repechage at the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette in France this morning. The race, from which three crews qualified, was tight until half way, with Ireland one of four crews vying for the key places. But O’Driscoll and O’Donovan owned the third quarter: they accelerated into the lead and stayed there, with only the Czech Republic, which finished second, testing them. Austria were third.

Denise Walsh finished fourth in her repechage of the lightweight single sculls and will compete in the C/D semi-finals.

World Rowing Championships, Day Three (Irish interest)

Men

Lightweight Pair – Repechage (First Three to A/B Semi-Final; rest to C Final)

Ireland (M O’Donovan, S O’Driscoll) 6:53.53, 2 Czech Republic 6:54.15, 3 Austria 6:55.89.

Women

Lightweight Single Sculls – Repechage Four (First Two to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to C/D Semi-Finals): 1 Australia (G Nesbitt) 7:55.45, 2 Austria (S Borzacchini) 8:00.45; 4 Ireland (D Walsh) 8:07.67.

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