Sporting Digest: Rowing

FRENCH CHAMPIONSHIPS (Paris): Men: Lightweight single scull: 1 GB (Haining) 6min 56sec; 2 Italy 7.03; 3 Ireland (Kelly) 7.07. Coxed four: 1 GB (Walker, Maclennan, Stewart, Dillon, cox Ellison) 6min 10sec; 2 France 6.12; 3 GB (Poulton, Mavra, Gardiner, Haddon) 6.16. Coxless pair: 1 GB (Redgrave, Pinsent) 6min 33sec; 2 Belgium 6.38; 3 Romania 6.47. Coxed pair: 1 Italy (C Abbagnale, F Abbagnale, cox Di Capua) 6min 51sec; 2 France 6.53; 3 GB (G Searle, J Searle, cox Herbert) 6.55. Women: Lightweight single scull: 1 GB (Appleboom) 7.55; 2 France 8.03; 3 GB (Ashcroft) 8.04. Single scull: 1 France (Muller) 7.51; 2 GB (Key) 7.57; 3 GB (Thomas) 8.09. Pair: 1 GB (Batten, Turvey) 7min 14sec; 2 France 7.16; 3 Germany 7.21. Four: 1 Germany 6min 33sec; 2 GB (Freckleton, Hall, Blackie, Cross) 6.39; 3 GB (Brownless, Davies, Dryden, Williams) 6.44.