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#Rowing: Ireland's junior men's double finished the World Rowing Regatta by taking a very encouraging second place in the B Final. The ambitious duo of Ronan Byrne and Daire Lynch fought it out with the Netherlands for third in the middle stages as South Africa and Canada disputed the lead. But Ireland put in an excellent second half in the strong tailwind conditions. They passed the Netherlands and then Canada and were just 1.33 seconds behind South Africa on the line. Byrne and Lynch place eighth in the world.

World Rowing Championships, Rotterdam (Irish interest; Selected Results)

Men

Junior Double Sculls - B Final (Places 7 to 12): 1 South Africa 6:32.29, 2 Ireland (R Byrne, D Lynch) 6:33.72.

Women

Junior Double Sculls - B Final (Places 7 to 12): 1 Spain 7:13.72; 6 Ireland (A Casey, E Hegarty) 7:22.68.

Published in Rowing

#Rowing: The Ireland junior double of Ronan Byrne and Daire Lynch took second place in their heat and qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Championships in Rotterdam today. New Zealand took over from early leaders South Africa in the middle of the race and were the clear winners. Four crews would qualify, but Ireland and Belarus raced the final stages to see who could place second, and Byrne and Lynch won this - by seven hundredths of a second. South Africa took fourth.

World Rowing Championships, Rotterdam (Irish interest, selected results)

Men

Junior Double Sculls - Heat Five (Four to Quarter-Finals; rest to repechage): 1 New Zealand 6:28.44, 2 Ireland (R Byrne, D Lynch) 6:33.28, 3 Belarus 6:33.35, 4 South Africa 6:37.82.

Published in Rowing

About Match Racing

A match race is a race between two competitors, going head-to-head.

In yacht racing, it is differentiated from a fleet race, which almost always involves three or more competitors competing against each other, and team racing where teams consisting of 2, 3 or 4 boats compete together in a team race, with their results being combined.

A match race consists of two identical boats racing against each other. With effective boat handling and clever use of wind and currents, a trailing boat can escape the grasp of the leader and pass. The leader uses blocking techniques to hold the other boat back. This one-on-one duel is a game of strategy and tactics.

About the World Match Racing Tour

Founded in 2000, the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT) promotes the sport of match racing around the world and is the longest running global professional series in the sport of sailing. The WMRT is awarded ‘Special Event’ status by the sport’s world governing body – World Sailing – and the winner of the WMRT each year is crowned World Sailing Match Racing World Champion. Previous champions include Sir Ben Ainslie (GBR), Taylor Canfield (USA), Peter Gilmour (AUS), Magnus Holmberg (SWE), Peter Holmberg (ISV), Adam Minoprio (NZL), Torvar Mirsky (AUS), Bertrand Pace (FRA), Jesper Radich (DEN), Phil Robertson (NZL) and Ian Williams (GBR). Since 2000, the World Match Racing Tour and its events have awarded over USD23million in prize money to sailors which has helped to contribute to the career pathway of many of today’s professional sailors