Jacob Leads the Way at National Championships

25th September 2010

Liam Gorman

Jacob Leads the Way at National Championships

Sean Jacob had plenty to spare as he won the men’s senior single sculls title at the National Championships in the NRC in Cork today. The UCD man credited the programme laid down by national senior coach Adrian Cassidy as important in his continuing good form, but club athletes had surprisingly emphatic wins over those in the international programme in the interemediate single sculls. Marie O’Neill of Cork beat Claire Lambe into second in the women’s event, while John Keohane won the men’s class, with Cian Pidgeon of Castleconnell second and current international Michael Maher in third. Junior international Turlough Hughes did not make the final.

Neptune’s Claire Lambe and Elaine Fitzgerald ended a fantastic season for them by winning the women’s senior pair.

National Rowing Championships, National Rowing Centre, Farran Wood, Cork

Men, Pair – Junior 18: 1 Presentation College (J Griffin, K Neville) 7:33.60, 2 Skibbereen 7:38.81, 3 Bann 7:51.95.

Sculling, Single – Senior: 1 UCD (S Jacob) 7:44.52, 2 Skibbereen (R Coakley) 7:53.52, 3 NUIG (D Mannion) 8:01.50, 4 Tralee IT (R O’Connor). Intermediate: 1 Lee Valley (J Keohane) 7:32.78, 2 Castleconnell (C Pidgeon) 7:44.31, 3 Commercial (M Maher) 7:50.78.

Women, Pair – Senior: 1 Neptune (E Fitzgerald, C Ludlow) 8:35.77, 2 NUIG/Tribesmen 8:41.48, 3 Skibbereen/St Michael’s 8:42.04.

Sculling, Quadruple – Novice, coxed (non Championship): 1 Killorglin A 8:05.41, 2 Garda 8:13.97, 3 Neptune 8:28.48. Junior 18: 1 Skibbereen (L Connolly, C Fitzgerald, D Walsh, S Dinneen) 7:35.71, Cork BC 7:45.06, Bann 7:48.12.

Single - Intermediate: Cork Boat Club (M O’Neill) 8:20.93, 2 UCD (C Lambe) 8:25.76, 3 Killorglin (M Dukarska) 8:25.80.

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Liam Gorman is a writer and reporter. He is the co-author of Little Lady, One Man, Big Ocean, published in the United States and Canada as Crossing the Swell. He is the rowing correspondent of the Irish Times.

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