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\nThe Women’s Double Sculls pair of Zoe Hyde, right, and Margaret Cremen<\/p>\n
Team Ireland enjoyed an encouraging start to their 2026 World Rowing Cup I campaign in Seville, with plenty of semi-final spots secured.<\/p>\n
Double Olympic champion Fintan McCarthy won his opening heat in the Singe Sculls in a time of 7:08.46, the fourth fastest time overall. The Cork man beat Norway’s Jonas Slettemark Juel to the line, having been keeping pace from third spot throughout the race.<\/p>\n
He was then involved in a quarter-final later in the day, where a second-placed finish to Slovakia saw him secure one of the three automatic qualification spots for the semis that were on offer.<\/p>\n
Fiona Murtagh was first up on Friday and she won her Single Sculls heat with a composed performance, particularly in the second half of the race. She finished ahead of the German team in a time of 7:37.33.<\/p>\n
The Women’s Double Sculls team of Alison Bergin and Sophia Young continued the good run as they took victory in a time of 7:06.30, crossing the line ahead of the Netherlands and Canada.<\/p>\n
\nThe Women’s Double Sculls pair of Zoe Hyde, right, and Margaret Cremen<\/p>\n
In the second heat, Zoe Hyde and Mags Cremen came home second in a time of 7:01.20, a result also good enough to send them into the semis.<\/p>\n
Isobel Clements made the A final in the Lightweight Single Sculls after managing second spot in a time of 8:09.49.<\/p>\n
The Women’s Four are also into their A final as the team of Natalie Long, Claire Feerick, Emma Fagan and Imogen Magner came home second in their heat in a time of 6:51.60.<\/p>\n
The Men’s Pair of Adam Murphy and Fionn\u00e1n McQuillan-Tolan are into their semi-final. They were the sixth fastest crew overall, with a fourth-placed finish in their heat thanks to a time of 6:58.67.<\/p>\n
The Men’s Quad Sculls team are heading for the Final C after coming home fourth in their heat. The crew of Konan Pazzaia, Andrew Sheehan, Ryan Spelman and Martin O’Grady finished in a time of 5:58.67.<\/p>\n
Team Ireland schedule for Saturday:
9:25am – Men’s Quad Sculls Final C (Konan Pazzaia, Andrew Sheehan, Ryan Spelman and Martin O’Grady)
10:05am – Women’s Single Sculls A Final (Fiona Murtagh)
10:15am – Men’s Single Sculls semi-final (Fintan McCarthy)
10:37am – Men’s Pair semi-final (Adam Murphy and Fionn\u00e1n McQuillan-Tolan)
10:49am – Women’s Double Sculls semi-final (Alison Bergin and Sophia Young)
10:54am – Women’s Double Sculls semi-final (Zoe Hyde and Mags Cremin)
1:45pm – Lightweight Single Sculls (Isobel Clements)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Ireland enjoyed an encouraging start to their 2026 World Rowing Cup I campaign in Seville, with plenty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-473663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}