All four Irish boats were in action in this morning’s heats at the second leg of the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland.
The men’s lightweight four (LM4-) of Paul Griffin, Richard Archibald, Gearoid Towey and Eugene Coakley fared the best of the Irish finishing second in their heat to 2006 world champions China, to advance directly to Saturday's semi-finals.
The lightweight men’s double (LM2x) of Cathal Moynihan and Richard Coakley,along with the heavyweight men’s four (M4-) of Alan Martin, Cormac Folan, Sean O’Neill and James Wall, and the heavyweight men’s pair (M2-) of Sean Casey and Jonno Devlin must all compete in Friday evening's repechages for a second chance to advance to tomorrow’s semi-finals.
This is because they missed out on the handful of direct semi-final places on offer in the morning heats.
