#ROWING: Chris Black and Joel Cassells did themselves no harm in the hunt for selection on the Ireland team for the World Junior Championships when they won their final at Munich Junior Regatta today. Each heat of this event was run as a final, but Black and Cassells won their heat easily and were by far the fastest pair of the day.

Munich Junior International Regatta (Selected Results)

Sunday

Men

Pair (each heat run as a final) – Heat Three: 1 Ireland (C Black, J Cassells) 6:49.27; Heat Four: 2 Ireland (H Millar, L Seaman) 7:05.59.

Double Scull – Heat Six: 6 Ireland (A Griffin, D Quinlan) 6:56.61.

Single Scull – Heat One: 4 Ireland (P O’Donovan) 7:19.82.

Women

Quadruple – Heat Two: 2 Ireland (B Walsh, H Shinnick, K Cromie, B Jacques) 6:55.22. Final: 5 Ireland 6:48.64.

#ROWING: Two Irish single scullers reached A Finals on the first day of the the huge Munich Junior Regatta. Bridget Jacques finished fifth in a race won by world junior champion Anne Beenken of Germany. Beenken pipped Jacques’s fellow Northern Irish woman Holly Nixon for gold last year at the World Championships.

Paul O’Donovan, who finished fourth at those Championships, had a rare off-day in his final today and finished sixth.

Munich Junior International Regatta (Day One, Selected Results)

Men

Four – Heat One: 4 Ireland (L Seaman, H Millar, C Black, J Cassells) 6:20.86. B Final: 3 Ireland 6:24.24.

Single Scull - Heat Four: 1 Ireland (P O’Donovan) 7:15.42. Final: 1 Czech Republic (M Plocek) 7:06.20; 6 Ireland (O’Donovan) 7:34.26.

Women

Single Scull – Heat Two: 1 Ireland (B Jacques) 8:01.96. Heat Three: 3 Ireland (B Walsh) 8:19.20. Final: 1 Germany (A Beenken) 7:53.78; 5 Ireland (Jacques) 8:07.97.