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Ireland's Junior Men Come Out on Top at Home International Regatta
#Rowing: Ireland’s junior men won and Ireland’s junior women were second in the overall classification at the Home International Regatta in Strathclyde Park in Scotland. Ireland’s junior men’s eight, four and pair all won, helping Ireland to the 22 points…
Bronze Medal for Holly Nixon at World Under-23 Championships
#Rowing: Holly Nixon took a bronze medal at the World Under-23 Championships this morning. The Enniskillen woman was part of the Britain women’s eight which finished third to the United States and Russia. The United States were impressive winners, taking…
Ireland Lead Early But Finish Third in B Final at World Under-23 Championships
#Rowing: Ireland’s lightweight men’s four finished third in their B Final, ninth overall, at the World Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The crew of Shane Mulvaney, Chris Beck, Lloyd Seaman and David O’Malley took the lead by 250 metres and…
Coleraine Man Cassells Takes Silver for Britain at World Under-23 Championships
#Rowing: Coleraine man Joel Cassells won a silver medal at the World Under-23 Championships today. The 21-year-old was in the number two seat in the Britain lightweight quadruple sculls which were 2.1 seconds off the gold medal position in Plovdiv,…
Rowan Takes Control to Win D Final of Single Sculls at World Under-23 Championships
#Rowing: Erik Rowan gave Ireland a very good start to the fourth day of the World Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv in Bulgaria with a fine win in the D Final of the men’s single sculls. The race was notably close…
McCarthy and Ireland Lightweight Double Take Places in C Final in Bulgaria
#Rowing: Ireland qualified two boats for C Finals in the evening session at the World Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In the lightweight double sculls C/D semi-final, Liam Keane and Stephen O’Connor did well to take the third qualification spot.…
Rowing Champ & Blind Adventurer Sues Friends Over Paralysing Fall
#Rowing - Blind adventurer and former rowing medal-winner Mark Pollock, who became paralysed after a fall from an open window five years ago, is suing friends for their alleged culpability over the incident. As TheJournal.ie reports, the Commonwealth Games medallist…
Ireland Lightweight Four For B Final at World Under-23 Championships
#Rowing: Ireland finished fifth in the repechage of the lightweight four at the World Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and will compete in the B Final. France took control of the race and held off challenges to win. The United…
Rowan Fourth in Repechage at World Under-23 Championships
#Rowing: Erik Rowan finished fourth in his single sculls repechage at the World Under-23 Championships this morning in Plovdiv in Bulgaria. Romania and Hungary shot into the two qualification places in the first half of the race, and the Skibbereen…
Trinity are Senior Eights Champions of Ireland
#ROWING: Trinity won the senior eights Championship of Ireland for the first time since 2008 at the National Rowing Centre today. They started well and pushed into a one-length lead at 1,000 metres over UCD/Old Collegians, with NUIG/Grainne Mhaol not…
Skibbereen and Tribesmen Best of Irish Lightweights
#Rowing: Justin Ryan and Siobhan McCrohan took the lightweight single sculls titles at the Irish Rowing Championships today. The Skibbereen man and Tribesmen woman were commanding winners. McCrohan had already won the senior singles title, while Ryan was taking his…
Jennings and Lambe Win B Final at Lucerne
#Rowing: Ireland’s Sinead Jennings and Claire Lambe won the B Final of the lightweight double sculls at the World Cup Regatta in Lucerne this morning. The new crew held second to Denmark in the early stages but broke clear and…
McCrohan and UCD/Old Collegians Composite Win in Cork
#Rowing: Siobhan McCrohan won the won the women’s senior single sculls for Tribesmen and the experienced Old Collegians/UCD crew took the men’s senior quadruple at the Irish Championships this afternoon. In the junior women’s eight, Portora had to see off…
O'Driscoll and O'Donovan Sixth in Lucerne A Final
#Rowing: Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll finished sixth in the A Final of the men’s lightweight pair at the World Cup in Lucerne. Britain and Italy fought it out for gold, with Italy winning. Denmark took bronze. The Ireland crew…
Puspure Bound For B Final at Lucerne
#Rowing: Sanita Puspure finished fifth in the A/B Semi-Final of the women’s single sculls at the World Cup regatta in Lucerne today. She is now set to compete in the B Final. Kim Crow of Australia set a hot pace,…
Fifth Place In Lucerne Semi-Final for Ireland Double
#Rowing: The Ireland women’s double of Lisa Dilleen and Helen Hannigan finished fifth in their semi-final at the World Cup regatta in Lucerne today. Belarus and Germany took control of the race, with Greece moving in the third quarter to…