#WorldJuniorRowing: Ireland’s Bridget Jacques and Hilary Shinnick missed out on the A Final of the women’s double sculls at the World Junior Championships at Trakai in Lithuania.

The first three from today’s A/B semi-final made it into tomorrow’s A Final, and Romania took the most direct route, leading down the course to win. Behind them an exciting battle unfolded. Through the second half of the race, Germany, Ireland and Australia effectively competed for two places. At 1500 metres, Germany held second and Australia third, clear of Ireland. Australia upped the ante and closed up on Germany, and while the Ireland crew pushed hard in the closing stages they couldn’t head either of their rivals. Australia passed Germany to take second. Ireland finished 2.8 seconds down on Germany in fourth. They are set to compete in tomorrow’s B Final.

World Junior Rowing Championships, Trakai, Lithuania, Day Four (Selected Results, Irish interest)

Men

Quadruple Sculls– C/D Semi-Final One (First Three to C Final; rest to D Final): 1 Romania 6:15.90, 2 Ukraine 6:17.57, 3 Ireland (C Carmody, J Mitchell, D O’Malley, P Hegarty) 6:18.28, 4 Russia 6:22.38, 5 Estonia 6:29.19.

Double Sculls – Semi-Final One (First Three to C Final; rest to D Final): 1 France 6:49.57, 2 Russia 6:50.65, 3 United States 6:50.83; 4 Ireland (A Harrington, J Casey) 6:51.05, 5 Bulgaria 6:59.84, 6 Estonia 7:06.97.

Women

Quadruple Sculls – C Final (places 13 to 17): 1 Estonia 7:07.80, 2 Japan 7:10.80, 3 Denmark 7:12.25, 4 Sweden 7:12.30,

5 Ireland (F Murtagh, J English, E Barry, B Walsh) 7:25.01.

Double Sculls – A/B Semi-Final One (First Three to A Final; rest to B Final): 1 Romania 7:21.16, 2 Australia 7:25.43, 3 Germany 7:26.07; 4 Ireland (H Shinnick, B Jacques) 7:28.15, 5 Croatia 7:32.84, 6 Slovenia 7:46.21.

Lisa Dilleen and Sanita Puspure finished fifth in the heat of the women’s double scull today at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in Slovenia and must make their way through a repechage if they are to qualify for Friday’s semi-finals. Poland and Serbia moved away from the field to collar the two direct qualification places, with the Czech Republic third. The Irish lost a battle for fourth place on the line to Switzerland.

Sarah Dolan was well off the pace in her heat of the lightweight single scull. She finished fifth in a race won by Katherine Copeland of Britain. Ursula Grobler of the United States finished second, booking her ticket to the semi-final.

World Rowing Championships, Bled, Slovenia – Day One (Irish interest)

Men

Lightweight Pair – Heat Two (First Two Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to Repechage): 1 Britain (P Chambers, K Emery)  6:38.08, 2 Canada 6:40.75.

Women

Double Scull – Heat Three (First Two Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to Repechage): 1 Poland (M Fularczyk, J Michalska) 6:56.57, 2 Serbia (I Obradovic, I Filipovic) 7:00.45; 3 Czech Republic  7:07.38, 4 Switzerland 7:09.26, 5 Ireland (L Dilleen, S Puspure) 7:09.28

Lightweight Single Scull – Heat Two (First Two Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to Repechage): 1 Britain (K Copeland) 7:47.88, 2 United States (U Grobler) 7:50.23; 5 Ireland (S Dolan) 8:13.81.