UCD Take Fours Title and Put Henley Defeat Behind Them

14th July 2011

UCD won the senior fours title at the National Rowing Championships at the National Rowing Centre in Cork, beating NUIG/Grainne Mhaol into second – reversing the result when the two crews met at Henley Royal Regatta. The margin was an emphatic 3.9 seconds. Skibbereen’s Shelly Dineen and Denise Walsh won the women’s senior double scull. In one of the closest races on a very good day of action, St Joseph’s of Galway beat Bann by .5 of a second in the men’s Junior 18A eight.

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

Day One

Men

Eight – Novice: 1 Trinity 6:02.7, 2 UCD 6:08.1, 3 Galway 6:17.4. Junior 18A: 1 St Joseph’s 5:51.6, 2 Bann 5:52.1, 3 Portora 5:56.4. Junior 16 (non-Championship): 1 Galway, 2 St Joseph’s College, 3 Cork.

Four – Senior: 1 UCD (D Neale, F Manning, G Duane, S Jacob) 6:05.2, 2 NUIG/Grainne Mhaol 6:09.1, 3 University of Limerick/Garda Siochana 6:18.7, 4 St Michael’s 6:25.4. Intermediate, coxed: 1 UCD 6:26.3, 2 Queen’s 6:29.5, 3 Neptune 6:33.3.

Sculling, Quadruple – Novice, coxed: 1 Shandon 6:54.5, Queen’s 6:58.3, 3 St Michael’s 7:02.1.

Double – Senior: 1 Muckross (S Casey, C Moynihan) 6:30.8, 2 Queen’s 6:31.7, 3 Lee Valley 6:36.3, 4 Skibbereen 6:41.8, 5 Galway 6:48.9.

Single – Lightweight: 1 UCD (A English) 7:12.4, 2 Lee Valley (Dowling) 7:18.4, 3 Three Casltes (Murphy) 7:23.9. Junior 18A: 1 Castleconnell (N Prendiville) 7:21.6, 2 Castleconnell (A Sheehan), 7:24.0, 3 Neptune (Griffin) 7:29.6.

Women –

Four – Senior: 1 Skibbereen (O Hayes, C Fitzgerald, D Walsh, M Dineen) 6:51.5, 2 Queen’s 6:58.5, 3 Muckross 6:58.9, 4 UCD 7:07.9, 5 Trinity 7:09.0, 6 NUIG 7:30.7. Intermediate, coxed: 1 NUIG 7:10.0, 2 Queen’s 7:19.8. 3 Trinity 7:34.4.

Novice, coxed: 1 NUIG 7:23.4, 2 Galway 7:24.7, 3 Queen’s A 7:38.2. Junior 18A: 1 St Michael’s 7:08.8, 2 Cork 7:13.8, 3 Clonmel 7:34.1.

Sculling, Double – Senior: 1 Skibbereen (M Dineen, D Walsh) 7:20.7, 2 Old Collegians 7:28.0, 3 Killorglin 7:33.3. Junior 18A: 1 Portora (J Russell, K Cromie) 7:35.6, 2 Skibbereen 7:45.8, 3 Methodist College RC 7:52.6.

Single – Junior 16 (non-Championship): 1 Fermoy (H Shinnick) 8:09.9, 2 Methodist College (B Jacques) 8:21.3, 3 Lee (Hamel) 8:33.2.

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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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