Good Start Not Enough for Ireland Women's Quadruple

10th August 2013

#WorldJuniorRowing: Ireland had to settle for fifth place in the C Final, 17th overall, in the women’s quadruple sculls at the World Junior Rowing Championships at Trakai in Lithuania today. The crew of Fiona Murtagh, Jasmine English, Erin Barry and Bernadette Walsh had done well to make it through the C/D semi-finals and were very much in touch in the early stages, but by 750 metres they had dropped to the back of the field, and they stayed in fifth until the finish of a race won by Estonia.

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

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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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