Sporting Digest: Rowing
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Indianapolis): MEN: Lightweight double sculls: 1st semi-final: 1 Italy 6min 41.83sec; 2 New Zealand 6:43.43; 3 Spain 6:45.90; 4 Poland 6:51.45; 5 Japan 6:52.00; 6 Denmark 6:58.70. 2nd semi- final: 1 Switzerland 6:45.13; 2 Britain (S Whitelaw, A Sinton) 6:45.95; 3 Germany 6:46.83; 4 Canada 6:47.65; 5 United States 6:54.25; 6 Hungary 6:58.31.
Coxless pairs: 1st semi-final: 1 Britain (S Redgrave, M Pinsent) 6:51.01; 2 Germany 6:54.36; 3 Australia 6:56.01; 4 Italy 7:04.08; 5 Poland 7:04.90; 6 Lithuania 7:05.95. 2nd semi- final: 1 Canada 6:50.95; 2 Croatia 6:54.96; 3 Belgium 6:56.23; 4 United States 6:59.03; 5 Norway 7:02.16; 6 Romania 7:20.39.
Coxless fours: 1st semi-final: 1 France 6:14.47; 2 Britain (J Searle, G Searle, T Foster, R Obholzer) 6:16.44; 3 Poland 6:17.79; 4 Croatia 6:17.94; 5 United States 6:23.08; 6 Canada 6:31.17. 2nd semi-final: 1 Italy 6:15.58; 2 Germany 6:19.10; 3 Slovenia 6:19.48; 4 Australia 6:21.40; 5 Russia 6:33.98; 6 Romania 6:38.49.
Single sculls: 1st semi-final: 1 Czech Republic 7:13.19; 2 Switzerland 7:13.58; 3 Germany 7:15.88; 4 Austria 7:16.43; 5 Hungary 7:25.72; 6 Romania 7:47.36. 2nd semi-final: 1 Slovenia 7:16.28; 2 Denmark 7:17.98; 3 Italy 7:19.57; 4 Canada 7:21.93; 5 United States 7:23.20; 6 Netherlands 7:30.34.
Lightweight coxless pairs: 1st semi-final: 1 Italy 7:29.29; 2 Britain (R Everington, M Partridge) 7:30.28; 3 Ireland (N Maxwell, A O'Connor) 7:32.20; 4 France 7:36.16; 5 United States 7:36.49; 6 Australia 7:49.12. 2nd semi-final: 1 Denmark 7:27.98; 2 Russia 7:28.36; 3 Germany 7:28.63; 4 Spain 7:28.91; 5 Denmark 7:39.18; 6 Canada 7:46.54.
Lightweight single sculls: 1st semi-final: 1 Britain (P Haining) 8:06.70; 2 Slovakia 8:09.88; 3 Switzerland 8:12.41; 4 France 8:16.69; 5 Australia 8:18.73; 6 Canada 8:23.34. 2nd semi-final: 1 Denmark 8:06.97; 2 United States 8:09.60; 3 Ireland (N O'Toole) 8:09.82; 4 Greece 8:24.00; 5 Czech Republic 8:37.62; 6 Netherlands 8:38.11.
Double sculls: 1st semi-final: 1 France 7:02.34; 2 Hungary 7:03.66; 3 Denmark 7:03.71; 4 Austria 7:08.43; 5 Australia 7:16.46; 6 Ukraine 7:17.15. 2nd semi-final: 1 Germany 7:02.99; 2 Spain 7:03.48; 3 Norway 7:04.41; 4 New Zealand 7:06.88; 5 Slovakia 7:11.99; 6 Italy 7:21.88.
WOMEN: Single sculls: 1st semi-final: 1 Canada 8:01.25; 2 Denmark 8:02.25; 3 Australia 8:06.31; 4 United States 8:13.50; 5 Britain (G Batten) 8:21.58; 6 Austria 8:33.00. 2nd semi-final: 1 Germany 7:57.41; 2 Belgium 7:59.33; 3 Netherlands 8:00.43; 4 Sweden 8:18.17; 5 China 8:23.00; 6 Bulgaria 8:35.47.
Eights: 1st semi-final: 1 Belarus 6:48.75; 2 United States 6:51.61; 3 Russia 6:55.23. 2nd semi-final: 1 Australia 6:46.01; 2 Netherlands 6:47.06; 3 Canada 6:50.19; 4 China 6:53.76.
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