The Irish men's lightweight four finished fifth in the final of the opening world cup meeting of the season.
The crew of Paul Griffin, Richard Archibald, Gearoid Towey and Eugene Coakley will now move on from Munich to Switzerland for the next meet on 30 May, with the final Olympic qualifying regatta from 15-18 June in Poland.
The heavyweight men's four of Alan Martin, Cormac Folan, Sean O'Neill and James Wall finished fourth in their B final to take tenth place overall at this regatta.
The lightweight quartet who failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics at last year’s world championships have regained some of the form they showed in 2006 at this regatta, satisfyingly returning to A final action.
In the A final two other non-Olympic qualified boats were racing alongside the Irish; Germany and Serbia.
The Germans showed excellent form to take the bronze medal behind the 2007 and 2006 world champions Great Britain and China, who won silver and gold respectively.
However, notably in finishing fifth the Irish were nine seconds ahead of the sixth place Serbians.
On assessing their regatta Richard Archibald said: 'We’ve used this as a learning experience; we had an okay heat, being honest a pretty ropey semi-final and then today.
'I think we thought about it, and we experimented and we came out of it with a good row today. I think with the conditions still unfair we put in a good performance, and put ourselves in a good position.'
With the bowman in the heavyweight four (M4-) James Wall having a three week injury-enforced break leading into this regatta, preparation for this four was not ideal as stroke man Alan Martin pointed to in his assessment of their regatta: 'We didn’t have a great race today.
'We just got into this combination a few days ago and you can see we tend to pay the price for that as the regatta goes on with a lack of togetherness, and just time in the boat together.
'We’ve a couple of weeks now before the next regatta in Lucerne and hopefully we’ll get an improvement with that time together,' he said.
