Ireland Junior Women Set For World Rowing Repechage

24th August 2016

Aoife Casey

#Rowing: Ireland’s Emily Hegarty and Aoife Casey finished fourth in their heat of the junior women’s double at the World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam today. Just one crew from the heat qualified directly for the A/B semi-finals, with the rest dropping into repechages. France and the United States contended for the crucial first place early on, but France could not live with the pace set by the Americans, who won. Canada took third behind France and Casey and Hegarty the next spot.

World Rowing Championships, Rotterdam (Irish interest, selected results)

Men

Junior Double Sculls - Heat Five (Four to Quarter-Finals; rest to repechage): New Zealand 6:28.44, 2 Ireland (R Byrne, D Lynch) 6:33.28, 3 Belarus 6:33.35, 4 South Africa 6:37.82.

Women

Junior Double Sculls - Heat One (Winner to A/B Semi-Final; rest to Repechage): 1 United States 7:08.57; 4 Ireland (A Casey, E Hegarty) 7:25.93.

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Liam Gorman is a writer and reporter. He is the co-author of Little Lady, One Man, Big Ocean, published in the United States and Canada as Crossing the Swell. He is the rowing correspondent of the Irish Times.

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