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McBride carries on Kiwi winning ways in Bled heats
McBride carries on Kiwi winning ways in Bled heats
Adaptive sculler Danny McBride continued the Kiwi rowing
team's winning ways with a great win in his heat in the
Rowing World Championships at Bled in Slovenia
overnight.
Second at the first 500 metres, McBride
then stormed through the German sculler Johannes Schmidt and
powered away into a lead he would not lose. His row
qualified the Te Awamutu athlete directly to the semi
final.
The lightweight women's double of Louise
Ayling and Lucy Strack was hunting for direct progression to
the semi final and pressured the highly regarded British
crew of Hester Goodsell and Sophie Hosking throughout. In
the last 500 metres the Kiwi girls came right back into
contention and finished less than a second down - not good
enough for direct progression but a firm indication that
they have the pedigree to progress further in the
regatta.
The men's eight needed to finish in the top
three in the repechage to guarantee progression into the A
or B semi finals and duly obliged by tracking the boats from
France and the Czech Republic closely and moving away from
Lithuania. At the finish line they were just a length of the
French and through to the main semi finals.
ends
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