{"id":32921,"date":"2025-09-21T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/?p=32921"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:28:57","slug":"rowing-ireland-crews-begin-campaign-at-the-2025-world-rowing-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/rowing-ireland-crews-begin-campaign-at-the-2025-world-rowing-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowing Ireland Crews Begin Campaign at the 2025 World Rowing Championships\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rowing Ireland crews got their World Rowing Championships campaign underway in Shanghai this morning, with strong performances across the board in tailwind conditions. The Men\u2019s Pair have qualified for Tuesday\u2019s semi-final while the Women\u2019s Pair and Men\u2019s Quad have qualified for Tuesday\u2019s C finals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Championships were officially opened with Opening Ceremony taking place after racing. Watch the Opening Ceremony here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>W2- | Emily Hegarty &amp; Aoife Casey<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Women\u2019s Pair of Emily Hegarty and Aoife Casey finished fourth in their heat with a time of 7:13.17. The pair held a lead on the Individual Neutral Athletes crew. Their time was just outside the semi-final qualifying mark, and they will now race in the C Final.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C Final: 23<sup>rd<\/sup> September \u2013 4:38am IST (Lane 2)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M2- | Nathan Timoney &amp; Ross Corrigan<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nathan Timoney and Ross Corrigan finished second in their heat of the Men\u2019s Pair to directly qualify for the semi-final. The crew remained in second behind Romania throughout the race. They responded to a push in the last 200 metres from third place Denmark.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Semi Final: 23<sup>rd<\/sup> September \u2013 3:57am IST (Lane 2)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>M4x | Andrew Sheehan, Adam Murphy, Brian Colsh &amp; Ronan Byrne<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Men\u2019s Quad finished fourth in their heat with a time of 5:51.97, seeing them progress to Tuesday\u2019s C Final. The Men\u2019s Quad maintained fourth position throughout and mounted a late push on Croatia in the final 500m but missed out on a semi-final spot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C Final: 23<sup>rd<\/sup> September \u2013 4:50am IST (Lane 2)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Irish Crews Racing on Monday 22<\/strong><strong><sup>nd<\/sup><\/strong><strong> September:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W2x (Mags Cremen &amp; Zoe Hyde) &#8211; 3:43am IST (Lane 4)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M2x (Philip Doyle &amp; Fintan McCarthy) &#8211; 3:49am IST (Lane 1)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W4- (Natalie Long, Emma Waters, Imogen Magner &amp; Aisling Hayes) &#8211; 4:21am IST (Lane 3)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>W1x (Fiona Murtagh) &#8211; 7:17am IST (Lane 4)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M1x (Konan Pazzaia) &#8211; 7:43am IST (Lane 6)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Opening Ceremony took place after racing, officially marking the start of the Championships. Watch the ceremony highlights <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sRaxCVwlM0U?si=uNu9je_fG-zWIgJ2\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">here<\/mark><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d3fpn4c9813ycf.cloudfront.net\/pdfDocuments\/WCH_2025_1\/WCH_2025_1_ROW-------------------DAY-002100--_C74A_20250921X2432.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Sunday\u2019s Results Summary<\/mark><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d3fpn4c9813ycf.cloudfront.net\/pdfDocuments\/WCH_2025_1\/WCH_2025_1_ROW-------------------DAY-002200--_C52_20250922X2126.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Monday\u2019s Start List Summary<\/mark><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldrowing-admin.soticcloud.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2025-WRCH-Shanghai-Programme-V2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">World Rowing Championships Programme<\/mark><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldrowing.com\/event\/2025-world-rowing-championships\/?tab=overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Audio Commentary &amp; Livestream<\/mark><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Updated-2025-World-Rowing-Championships-Shanghai-Media-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Rowing Ireland Media Guide<\/mark><\/a> to learn more about our athletes and crews.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowing Ireland congratulates today\u2019s athletes and looks ahead to another exciting day of competition tomorrow.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On day one of the World Championships, the Men\u2019s Pair have qualified for Tuesday\u2019s semi-final while the Women\u2019s Pair &#038; Men\u2019s Quad have qualified for Tuesday\u2019s C finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":32924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-32921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-high-performance","tag-world-championships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32921","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}