#Rowing: Irish crews Commercial and Trinity finished third and fourth in the senior eights at London Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney Lake today. The race was won by Eton College. Ireland did have a winner in the latter stages of the day: UCC took the intermediate two coxed fours. The Keohane twins, Brian and David, partnered Steven Murphy and Tomás Power, with Rachel O’Leary the cox. In the elite lightweight single sculls, Andrew Goff of UCD came in second to Hugo Coussens of Durham University.
London Metropolitan Regatta, Dorney Lake (Selected Results; Irish interest)
Men
Eight – Senior: 1 Eton College 5:56.69, 2 St Paul’s School 5:58.86, 3 Commercial 5:59.70; 4 Trinity 6:04.59.
Fours – Elite, coxed: 3 Trinity (P Moreau, M Corcoran, L Hawkes, M Kelly; cox: C Flynn) 6:34.88. Intermediate Two: 1 UCC (S Murphy, T Power, B Keohane, D Keohane; cox: R O’Leary) 6:48.31.
Sculling – Quadruple – Elite: 1 UCC, Skibbereen, UCD, Shandon (F McCarthy, S O’Connell, S O’Connor, C Hennesy) 6:07.64.
Double – Elite/Senior: 5 Skibbereen/UCC (J McCarthy, D Synnott) 7:02.57.
Single – Elite Lightweight: 2 UCD (Andrew Goff) 7:33.27. Senior: 4 UCC (A Harrington) 7:28.87. Intermediate One: 1 UCC (Harrington) 7:33.35; 5 Garda (D Kelly) 7:47.49. Inter Two: 4 Trinity (S Addison) 7:46.58.
Women
Four – Combined: 3 UCD intermediate one (E Lambe, A Crowley, S Bennett, K O’Connor) 7:22.46. Intermediate, coxed: 3 Commercial (Sinead Dolan, M Bracken, A O’Leary, E Gary; cox: E Moody) 7:38.08.