Sporting Digest: Rowing

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Roundnice, Cz Rep) Preliminary heats (GB results only): MEN: Lightweight coxless fours: 1 Great Britain (Bates, Smith, Kay, Hessian) 6min 17sec; 2 Italy 6:20; 3 Japan 6:28. Lightweight coxless pairs: 1 Spain 6:49; 2 Netherlands 6:56; 3 USA 6:56.61; 4 Great Britain (Williams, Baker) 6:57. Coxless fours: 1 France 5:54; 2 Great Britain (Obholzer, Manners, Larkin, Hunt Davis) 5:58; 3 Romania 6:00. Coxless pairs: 1 Great Britain (Redgrave, Pinsent) 6:28.16; 2 Croatia; 6 28.99; 3 Belgium 6:36.

WOMEN: Lightweight double sculls: 1 Denmark 7:19; 2 Netherlands 7:22; 3 Great Britain (Mangan, Corless) 7:24. Women's coxless fours: 1 Australia 6:29; 2 Belarus 6:33; 3 Great Britain (F Freckleton, A Hall, D Blackie, P Cross) 6:35. Coxless pairs: 1 France 7:05; 2 Great Britain (J Turvey, M Batten) 7:09; 3 USA 7:10.