Four Crews Through to Munich Semi-Finals

27th May 2011

Three Ireland crews joined heavyweight double Sanita Puspure and Lisa Dilleen in World Cup semi-finals after yesterday afternoon’s action in Munich. Claire Lambe and Siobhan McCrohan won their repechage of the lightweight women’s double scull and Mark O’Donovan and Niall Kenny qualified by taking third in the quarter-final of the men’s lightweight double. Michael Maher will compete in the lightweight single sculls semi-finals: he finished third in his repechage. Sarah Dolan did not make it through in the women’s lightweight single.

World Cup Regatta, Munich – Day One (Irish Interest)

Heats run as Time Trials

Men

Lightweight Double Scull – (First Four to Quarter-Finals) Heat One: 1 Germany 6:17.11, 2 Czech Republic Two 6:19.00, 3 Ireland Two (M O’Donovan, N Kenny) 6:21.69, 4 Greece Two 6:22.29. Heat Three: 1 Denmark 6:12.17; 6 Ireland One (P Hanily, J Ryan) 6:19.37. Quarter Final Two: 1 China 6:27.33, 2 United States 6:29.87, 3 Ireland Two 6:32.44.

Lightweight Single Scull – Heat Two (First Two Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to repechages): 1 Norway 7:13.54, 2 Poland 7:16.22; 4 Ireland (M Maher) 7:21.97. Repechage One (qualifiers): 1 Japan 7:26.30, 2 Bulgaria 7:28.09, 3 Ireland (Maher) 7:28.22.

Women

Double Scull – Heat Two (First Three Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to Repechage): 1 Belarus 7:11.23, 2 Denmark 7:18.21, 3 Ireland (L Dilleen, S Puspure) 7:20.11.

Lightweight Double Scull - Heat Three (First to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to repechage): 1 Britain Two 6:52.13; 4 Ireland (S McCrohan, C Lambe) 7:02.70. Repechage Four: 1 Ireland 7:10.61, 2 Czech Republic 7:13.38.

Lightweight Single Scull – Heat One (First Two Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to repechages): 1 Switzerland 8:00.59, 2 Japan One 8:10.60; 4 Ireland (S Dolan) 8:15.51. Repechage Two (First Three to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to C Final): 1 Switzerland Two 8:15.27; 5 Ireland 8:21.19.

Adaptive Rowing (Thursday)

Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Four, coxed (First Two Directly to A Final): 1 Britain 3:34.84, 2 Ireland (A-M McDaid, S Caffrey, S Ryan, K du Toit; cox: H Arbuthnot) 3:40.29; 3 Ukraine 3:42.88, 4 France 3:43.51, 5 Poland 4:07.79.

Arms and Shoulders Single Scull – Heat Three (First Two Directly to Semi-Final A/B; rest to Repechages): 6 Ireland (K Doherty) 5:39.57.

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