Siobhan McCrohan came third in her quarter-final of the lightweight single scull at the World Cup in Lucerne, securing a place in the semi-finals. The Galway woman led early on, but Erika Bello of Italy and Fabiana Beltrame of Brazil passed her in the second half of the race.
The lightweight men’s pair of Peter Hanily and Anthony English, an under-23 crew, came very close to landing a place in the A/B semi-finals. Even in the early stages of this repechage Canada and Italy were in charge of the first two qualification places. Ireland led a battle for third until the closing stages, when they were pipped by Hong Kong.
Cathal Moynihan finished last in his quarter-final of the lightweight men’s single scull and the men’s pair of Cormac Folan and Sean Jacob were fifth in their repechage. Both crews missed out on A/B semi-Finals.
Sarah Dolan and Claire Lambe saw Poland and China claim the two semi-final places in the repechages of the lightweight double scull. The Irish were a close-up fourth behind Germany in third.
World Cup, Lucerne (Irish interest)
Men
Pair – Heat Four (First Two Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to repechages): 1 Greece (G Tziallas, J Christou) 6:28.17, 2 Serbia One (M Marjanovic, N Stojic) 6:34.28; 3 Netherlands 6:37.88, 4 Ireland (C Folan, S Jacob) 6:46.06, 5 Germany Two 6:52.75. Repechage (Two to A/B Semi-Finals): 1 South Africa 6:35.82, 2 Australia 6:35.93; 5 Ireland (Folan, Jacob) 6:40.64
Lightweight Pair – Heat One (First Two Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to repechages): 1 Britain (A Freeman-Pask, C Boddy) 6:36.53, 2 Germany (D Wisgott, R Gerhardt) 6:39.61; 3 China 6:43.26, 4 Ireland (P Hanily, A English) 6:51.30, 5 Hong Kong 6:58.93, 6 Indonesia 7:12.49. Repechage Two (First Three to A/B Semi-Finals): 1 Canada 6:41.86, 2 Italy 6:45.05, 3 Hong Kong 6:46.90; 4 Ireland (Hanily, English) 6:47.80, 5 Japan Two 6:48.51, 6 Brazil 7:01.24.
Lightweight Quadruple Scull – Heat Two (First Directly to A Final; rest to repechage): 1 Italy (F Sancassani, F Rigon, F Gabriele, S Basalini) 5:36.36; 2 Ireland (N Kenny, M Maher, M O’Donovan, J Ryan) 5:57.15, 3 Germany One 6:02.98, 4 Brazil 6:04.55.
Lightweight Single Scull – Heat Six (First Four Directly to Quarter-Finals): 1 New Zealand (D Grant) 7:10.97, 2 Hong Kong (Sau Wah So) 7:12.63, 3 Ireland (C Moynihan) 7:12.76, 4 Venezuela (J Guipe Jimenez) 7:15. 13; 5 Finland 7:15.51. Quarter-Final Four (Three to A/B Semi-Finals): 1 Hungary 7:04.68, 2 Slovakia 7:07.03, 3 Denmark 7:07.25; 6 Ireland (Moynihan) 7:21.67.
Women
Single Scull – Heat Four (First Two Directly to A/B Semi-Final): 1 Czech Republic (M Knapkova) 7:47.39, 2 United States (G Stone) 7:53.50; 3 Ireland (S Puspure) 8:00.59, 4 Argentina 8:06.44, 5 China One 8:15.82.
Lightweight Double Scull – Heat One (First Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to repechage): 1 Britain (H Goodsell, S Hosking) 7:08.40; 2 Netherlands 7:11.34, 3 Italy 7:14.14, 4 Ireland (C Lambe, S Dolan) 7:21.49, 5 Switzerland 7:23.84, 6 Cuba 7:26.44. Repechage Two (First Two to A/B Semi-Finals): 1 Poland 7:12.13, 2 China 7:13.91; 3 Germany Two 7:18.09, 4 Ireland 7:18.66
Lightweight Single Scull – Heat Three (First Three Directly to Quarter-Finals): 1 Ireland (S McCrohan) 7:56.18, 2 Japan One (A Fukumoto) 7:58.86, 3 Switzerland (E Waser) 8:02.36; 4 Zambia 8:06.15, 5 Hong Kong 8:13.50. Quarter-Final Two (Three to Semi-Finals): 1 Italy (E Bello) 7:48.29, 2 Brazil (F Beltrame) 7:50.58, 3 Ireland (McCrohan) 7:50.58; 4 Denmark Three 8:02.13, 5 Denmark Four 8:02.94, 6 France 8:04.38.
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