Irish women’s four crew win European rowing silver medal

Ireland’s Eimear Lambe, Tara Hanlon, Afric Keogh and Natalie Long celebrate with their silver medals. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/InphoA typically aggressive and determined effort by the women’s four crew has opened Ireland’s medal account at the 2022 multi-sport European Championships in Munich, with Eimear Lambe, Aifric Keogh, Tara Hanlon and Natalie Long winning the silver medal as the A-finals got under way on Saturday at the Olympic regatta venue.

It was an exciting race which saw the Irish boat take out the early pace and build a narrow advantage over Britain, the title favourites who won gold at both of the World Cups that they attended earlier in the season, in Belgrade and Poznan. It was a brave and bold tactic by the Irish women, the silver medal certainly well earned. The British crew drew calmly alongside at 500m and by the third quarter of the race had pulled well clear. Sill Lambe, Keogh, Hanlon and Long kept to their own task and finished a clear second, the British boat clocking 6:50.92, the Irish 2.07 seconds down, with Romania coming through to take the bronze medals, 2.91 seconds down on the British.

Congratulations ladies on to The World and Olympics

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