Puspure and Jacob Prevail in Battle of Senior Doubles

26th September 2010

The senior women’s double scull provided a highlight of the morning session at the National Rowing Championships in the NRC in Cork today. Three boats finished in quick succession, but Sanita Puspure and Siobhan Jacob of Old Collegians were in control, holding off the challenge of Eimear and Joanne Moran of Offaly and Siobhan McCrohan and Lisa Dilleen of Tribesmen.

The senior men’s double was a much tamer affair, with Niall Kenny and Mark O’Donovan well ahead of the St Michael’s crew of Sam Lynch and Peter Hanily at the finish.

Turlough Hughes had to battle to win the men’s junior single scull. The giant King’s Hospital man hunted down and passed Shane O’Driscoll of Skibbereen in the third quarter of the race, but he had just two seconds to spare at the finish.

Skibbereen took the women’s junior single title, through Christine Fitzgerald, and the men’s intermediate double, and Alice O’Sullivan of University of Limerick won the women’s novice single scull.

National Rowing Championships, National Rowing Centre, Farran, Wood, Cork Day Two

Men

Sculling, Double – Senior: 1 NUIG/Skibbereen (N Kenny, M O’Donovan) 6:55.7, 2 St Michael’s 7:03.71. Intermediate: 1 Skibbereen (G Murphy, J Ryan) 6:58.12, 2 UCD 7:03.47, 3 St Michael’s 7:13.13. Single – Junior: 1 King’s Hospital (T Hughes) 7:34.9, 2 Skibbereen (S O’Driscoll) 7:36.9, 3 Skibbereen (P O’Donovan) 7:42.8.

Women

Sculling, Double – Senior: 1 Old Collegians (S Puspure, S Jacob) 7:41.09, 2 Offaly 7:43.78, 3 Tribesmen 7:46.30. Single – Novice: 1 University of Limerick (A O’Sullivan) 8:34.8, 2 Bantry (Piggott) 8:39.8, 3 Commercial (Cooney) 8:54.3. Junior 18: 1 Skibbereen (C Fitzgerald) 8:31.0, 2 Skibbereen (S Dineen) 8:32.5, 3 Skibbereen (D Walsh) 8:42.1.

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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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