#Rowing: Philp Doyle of Queen’s and Ronan Byrne of UCC won the Championship Double and Sam McKeown of Queen’s the Championship Single on the second day of London Metropolitan Regatta at Dorney Lake today. Doyle and Byrne form part of the Ireland training group at the National Rowing Centre. Tristan Orlic of Neptune also took the junior 18 singles at Dorney. Commercial competed in the Challenge Eight and won a trophy.
London Metropolitan Regatta, Dorney Lake (Irish interest; selected results, winners unless stated)
Saturday
Men
Eight – Championship: 1 Leander 5:49.90, 2 Commercial 5:52.74.
Four – Championship: 3 Commercial 6:12.20. Tier Two: Shandon.
Four, coxed – Tier Three: Tribesmen 6:32.26. Academic, Tier Two: NUIG.
Pair – Tier Two: UCC 7:14.93.
Double Sculls – Championship: 2 UCC (R Byrne, H Sutton) 6:32.50. Tier Two: Castleconnell 6:42.50.
Single Sculls – Championship: 2 UCC (R Byrne) 7:03.99. Tier Two: Univ of Limerick (K Mannix) 7:18.36. Tier Three: St Michael’s (D O’Connor).
Women
Eight – Club, Tier Two: NUIG/Tribesmen 6:50.64. Academic, Tier Two: Trinity 6:57.77.
Four – Academic, Tier Two: Trinity 7:08.62.
Four, coxed – Championship: NUIG/Tribesmen 7:20.88. Tier Four: Univ of Limerick.
Pair – Championship: 2 Commercial (H O’Neill, R Morris) 7:46.57. Tier Two: NUIG 7:39.84.
Double Sculls – Championship: 3 London/Skibbereen (M Jackson, N Long) 7:28.48.
Sunday
Men
Four – Tier Four: UCC 6:47.80. Four, coxed – Tier Two: UCC 6:55.08.
Double – Championship: UCC/Queen’s (R Byrne, P Doyle) 6:28.43. Tier Two: UCC/Queen’s (Byrne, Doyle) 6:37.50.
Single – Championship: Queen’s (S McKeown) 7:11.67. Tier Three: Castleconnell (S Haugh) 7:29.95. Jun 18: Neptune (T Orlic) 7:53.76.
Women
Four, coxed – Tier Two: NUIG/Tribesmen 7:45.07. Tier Three: Univ of Limerick 7:49.44.
Pair – Tier Two: Cork 7:22.18.