#ROWING: Sanita Puspure won her heat of the women’s single sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam today to guarantee a good lane draw in the quarter-finals. The Old Collegians sculler lay second behind China’s Jingli Duan at halfway but passed her in the third quarter and moved away to win well. The Netherlands, China and Croatia also qualified.
World Rowing Championships, Amsterdam (Selected Results; Irish interest)
Men
Lightweight Single Sculls – Heat Two (First Four Directly to Quarter-Finals; rest to Repechage): 1 Portugal (P Fraga) 6:53.62, Australia (P Ward) 6:54.96, 3 Ireland (P O’Donovan) 6:57.65,4 China (Jingbin Zhao) 7:03.13; 5 Slovakia 7:04.81, 6 Quatar 9:52.93.
Women
Pair – Heat Two (First Three Directly to A/B Semi-Finals; rest to Repechage): 1 Britain (H Glover, H Stanning) 7:04.64, 2 Ireland (L Kennedy, L Dilleen) 7:15.29, 3 Canada (J Martins, K Bauder) 7:04.64; 4 Serbia 7:21.06, 5 Russia 7:24.48.
Lightweight Double Sculls – Heat One (Winner to A/B Semi-Final; rest to Repechage): 1 Australia (A McNamara, E Flecker) 6:57.15; 2 Germany 7:00.24, 3 Ireland (C Lambe, D Walsh) 7:01.23, 4 Russia 7:02.71, 5 Denmark 7:07.89.
Single Sculls – Heat Four (First Four Directly to Quarter-Finals; rest to Repechage): 1 Ireland (S Puspure) 7:33.03, 2 Netherlands (L Scheenaard) 7:36.69, 3 China (Jingli Duan) 7:38.16, 4 Croatia (M Milosevic) 7:39.48; 5 Italy 8:19.49.
