Ireland secured one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the Rowing World Cup which concluded at the weekend.

After a long week in Lucerne between the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta and World Cup II Team Ireland will now return to base for the last lead up to the Olympic Games.

Fiona Murtagh and Aifric Keogh secured bronze in the A Final of the Women’s Pair. Ireland and the Netherlands were the quickest boats off the start line, but with a bit of a wobble in the second quarter, they passed through the halfway mark in fourth position.

Finding their rhythm over the next block saw them push ahead of the Greek crew and into the podium positions. At the World Championships last September this duo finished in fourth place, just outside of the medals and have started into this season on a good foot picking up bronze medals in both World Cup I and now World Cup II.

Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy also took bronze in the Lightweight Men’s Double.

Gabriel Soares and Stefano Oppo of Italy shot off the start, gaining a two second lead over the rest of the field in the first quarter of the race.

O’Donovan and McCarthy held second place for the first half of the race but there was absolutely nothing between themselves and the Swiss double from the get go. Throughout the entire race not more than .3 of a second separated them, and coming to the line it was the Swiss double that came out on top by .18 of a second.

Siobhán McCrohan from Galway and Tiarnán O’Donnell from Limerick had won Gold and Silver in the Lightweight Women’s Singles and the Men’s Singles earlier in the week.

Ireland has qualified seven boats now to compete in the Games in Paris this July and August.

 

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