{"id":32373,"date":"2025-08-08T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/?p=32373"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:09:27","slug":"two-crews-secure-a-final-places-at-world-rowing-under-19-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/two-crews-secure-a-final-places-at-world-rowing-under-19-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Crews Secure A Final Places at World Rowing Under 19 Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a strong morning for Rowing Ireland at the 2025 World Rowing Under 19 Championships in Trakai, Lithuania, with two crews securing their places in Sunday\u2019s A Finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior Women\u2019s Double Sculls \u2013 Aoife Hendy &amp; Sophia Young<\/strong><br>Aoife Hendy (Skibbereen RC) and Sophia Young (Methodist College Belfast RC) were the first Rowing Ireland crew on the water this morning and delivered a composed and determined performance in their Semi-Final. Finishing 3rd with a time of 7:45.13, they secured their place in the A Final, joining the top six junior women\u2019s double sculls crews in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Final: Sunday, 10 August 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time: 10:26am IST<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lane: 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior Men\u2019s Double Sculls \u2013 Jack Rafferty &amp; Jonah Kirby<\/strong><br>Shortly after, Jack Rafferty (St Michael\u2019s RC) and Jonah Kirby (Kenmare RC) produced a dominant row to win their Semi-Final in a time of 6:42.36. Leading from start to finish, the crew controlled the race and comfortably advanced to Sunday\u2019s A Final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Final: Sunday, 10 August 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time: 10:41am IST<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lane: 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Sunday\u2019s finals, the remaining three Under 19 Championships crews will contest their Semi-Finals on Saturday, 9 August:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior Women\u2019s Four \u2013 Semifinal 1<\/strong><br>12:01 IST | Lane 5<br>Sarah Rockett (Athlone BC), Isabella Wright (Enniskillen Royal BC), Cl\u00f3da Phillips (St Michael\u2019s RC), and Anna O\u2019Grady (Athlone BC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior Men\u2019s Four \u2013 Semifinal 2<\/strong><br>12:28 IST | Lane 1<br>Daniel Crozier (Methodist College RC), Tommy Little (Neptune RC), Richard Heaslip (Athlone BC), and Paul Schofield (Col\u00e1iste Iogn\u00e1id RC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior Men\u2019s Quadruple Sculls \u2013 Semifinal 1<\/strong><br>12:55 IST | Lane 6<br>Harry McCartney (Methodist College RC), Bill Murphy (Cappoquin RC), Mattias Cogan (Skibbereen RC), and Evan O\u2019Byrne (St Michael\u2019s RC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best of luck to all crews representing Rowing Ireland this weekend \u2013 an excellent showing so far at the World Rowing Under 19 Championships in Trakai! A special thanks to our coaching and support staff for their continued dedication, and as always, sincere thanks to our sponsors and supporters for making it all possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo Credit: <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldrowing.com\/event\/2025-world-rowing-under-19-championships\/?tab=photos-videos\">World Rowing<\/a><\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a strong morning at the 2025 World Rowing Under 19 Championships with two crews securing their places in Sunday\u2019s A Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":32375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-32373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-high-performance","tag-world-rowing-under-19-championships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}