The Irish women's lightweight double (LW2x) of Sinéad Jennings and Niamh NiCheilleachair repeated the feat of their male team-mates by impressively winning their World Championships B final in Eton this morning to finish seventh overall.
The pairing were determined to perform to their best after the disappointment of missing out on the A final. As with the men's four, seventh at next year's World Championships would crucially secure Olympic qualification for this crew.
Jennings and NiCheilleachair's start was much improved on the semi-final and they took up the lead at halfway in what was a particularly strong field.
They were never headed from that point, and comfortably led the charge to the line, significantly ahead of Poland, USA and Germany; crews which were fourth, second and first respectively in last year's World Championship final.
Meanwhile, the Irish men's lightweight four (LM4-) of Gearoid Towey, Eugene Coakley, Richard Archibald and Paul Griffin are just hours away from the race for medals in their World Championship final at 2.15pm Irish time.
