Sanita Puspure and Zoe Hyde have won bronze in the women's double sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Racice, Czech Republic.

The Team Ireland duo finished just ahead of their Austrian counterparts to claim the final medal behind Romania and Netherlands who took home gold and silver respectively.

Puspure, in the bow seat behind Hyde, is a multiple World and European champion in the singles sculls for Ireland and relished the opportunity to compete in the doubles alongside Killorglin Rowing Club's Hyde.

"It's good. It's a new experience for me, new challenges and I've been enjoying it so far," the three-time Olympian told RTÉ Sport.

"It's been really, really good. Zoe has a really good head on her for her first year of international rowing, so I'm very lucky."

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In the wake of last year's disappointment at the Tokyo Olympics, Puspure added that she had come close to departing the sport but credited high-performance women's head coach Giuseppe De Vita for pairing her with Hyde and giving her a new lease of life in rowing.

"I just kept training because I couldn't make a decision and then I was really close to retiring some day in April and then Giuseppe put us two in a boat and it changed the training and I was excited to go training again. It was very different."

Hyde in turn paid tribute to the vastly experienced Puspure's influence.

"(I had) a legend behind me but she's made the whole experience of rowing amazing. She's kind of nurtured me a bit," she said.

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On the close battle for third against the Austrians throughout the final, Hyde said they had expected there to be very little between both pairs.

"I had a look over at 750 and they were ahead and I was like, 'Okay, I need to put the head down and just give it a go,'" she said.

"We knew they would be fast. We were ahead of them a good bit in the heat but when we watched the semis back, they had come on a good bit after a couple of days so we knew it would probably be between them (and us), so we just had our plan to keep the head down and focus on the best we could do and today it worked."

Starting in Lane 2 against competitors which also included Germany and the United States, as well as the Austrians and fastest qualifiers for the A final, Romania, Puspure and Hyde were fourth after the first quarter of the race.

They edged into third place behind Romania and Netherlands but ahead of Austria and Germany as they approached the 1000m halfway mark.

With 500m to go, Ireland stayed narrowly ahead of the Austrians in an incredibly tight battle for bronze, before holding onto third to claim Ireland's fourth medal - and second bronze - of this year's world championships.

Konan Pazzaia, left, and Philip Doyle wave after edging the Lithuanian duo (foreground)

Earlier, in the men's double sculls C final, the duo of Philip Doyle and Konan Pazzaia emerged victorious.

Starting from Lane 4 and leading from early on, they finished in a time of 06:18.32 ahead of Lithuania's pair Armandas Kelmelis and Dovydas Nemeravicius by just under three seconds.

Brian Colsh was third in the men's single sculls C final, while Alison Bergin was fifth in the women's singles sculls C category.