They duly won their pairs heat to progress directly to the semifinals on Tuesday and then were part of the NZ women’s eight which won their heat in dramatic fashion with a surging finish to seal an automatic place in Friday’s final. “It didn t phase us too much,” Gowler said after the eights heat. “We ve done two races in a day multiple times, so I think we were almost happy that we ll have another extra day off.” Prendergast and Gowler are the defending world champions – from 2019 – in the pair and were also part of the Kiwi women’s eight which also won gold in Austria two years ago at the last rowing worlds champs to be held before the Tokyo Olympics.
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