{"id":607530,"date":"2026-08-28T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607530\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T19:00:09","slug":"zoe-hyde-and-mags-cremen-win-gold-for-ireland-at-world-rowing-championships-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607530\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Hyde and Mags Cremen win gold for Ireland at World Rowing Championships \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Zoe Hyde and Mags Cremen won gold for Ireland in the women\u2019s double sculls at the World Rowing Championships in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish duo were the fastest qualifiers for the A final, with Friday afternoon\u2019s racing delayed for over an hour due to adverse weather conditions in Amsterdam. After a conservative start, the Dutch pair of Roos De Jong and Benthe Boonstra holding the lead, Hyde and Cremen maintained the gap to gold at just under half a second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Upping their stroke rate at the halfway point, they quickly pulled level with the Dutch and were neck-and-neck as they sped past the stand, the Dutch cheered on by a strong home support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish boat opened up a two-meter lead by the line, finishing in 6:43.38, 1.03 seconds ahead of De Jong and Boonstra in second. Bronze went to Switzerland\u2019s Salome Ulrich and Fabienne Schweizer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Earlier, Fiona Murtagh finished first in the third quarter-final in the women\u2019s single sculls, seeing her through to Saturday\u2019s semi-final (2.12pm Irish time). Fintan McCarthy will also be in semi-final action on Saturday (2.19pm), finishing third in his quarter-final in the men\u2019s single sculls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">And in the women\u2019s pair B final, Imogen Magner and Natalie Long finished fifth in 7:14.03.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Hyde and Mags Cremen won gold for Ireland in the women\u2019s double sculls at the World Rowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28139,222849,61,60,43,26917],"class_list":["post-607530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fintan-mccarthy","tag-fiona-murtagh","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-rowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607530","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=607530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}