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O’Donovan and McCarthy set seal on best-ever European Championships for Irish rowers by defending their lightweight double crown Independent.ie 8 hrs ago Robert Treharne-Jones
World champions Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy fulfilled all expectations with a successful defence of their European title in Italy yesterday. Gold for the lightweight double was the icing on the cake for Ireland’s rowers, who finished the weekend with two medals from six A finalists – their best-ever European Championships.
Competing on Lake Varese, north of Milan, O’Donovan and McCarthy were characteristically slow off the start, with Jonathan Rommelmann and Jason Osborne of Germany leading the six-boat pack off the blocks.
Glover impresses on return to action at European Rowing Championships Friday, 9 April 2021
Britain’s back-to-back Olympic champion Helen Glover made a successful return to the water as she booked her place in the women’s pair final at the European Rowing Championships in Varese in Italy.
Glover, making her first competitive appearance since winning gold at the Rio 2016 Olympics, got her quest to reach Tokyo 2020 off to a flying start alongside partner Polly Swann.
The duo led their heat from the start to win in 7min 8.91sec as Greece s Christina Bourmpou and Maria Kyridou came second in 7:10.29.
The other two places in the final were taken by Romanians Adriana Ailincai and Iuliana Buhus and Irish duo Aileen Crowley and Monika Dukarska, who came first and second respectively in the other heat.