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July 13th, 2003 | by aobaoill |

First off, this is a pic of Heather on the Liffey from a few years ago:boathouse.jpgNext, there has been a bit of coverage of the result so far. RTE has a short piece about Heather’s win, and there’s a longer piece on the Irish Examiner site (which is syndicated on the IOL site). There’s also a story on the Ireland.com (Irish Times) breaking news site, but I can only see the headline, “Lynch and Towey lose out, silver for Boyle,” because the rest is behind the ‘premium access’ wall. Lynch and Towey were in the lightweight men’s double scull, and came fourth in the final.There are some comments on the Irish Rowing Discussion Board including this from Charley: “Silver for Heather this morning in lucerne. You go Girl! I think its your 1st world class medal and what a great one!”An excerpt from the Examiner story:

Heather Boyle claimed a World Cup finals silver medal this morning on the Rotsee lakes in Lucerne, Switzerland.Drawn in lane five, the Galway woman, one third of Ireland’s lightweight female squad and battling for the two places in the double sculls Olympic boat, crossed the line in a time of 07:47.46, nearly eleven seconds quicker than her final qualification time.Croatia’s Mirna Rajle, fourth in last year’s World Cup, and aided by the fact that last year’s podium finishers all moved into doubles crews this weekend, came from fourth at the 1500m point to win from lane 3 in 07:44.84.Boyle, a former UCG student, was fifth of six competitors at the quarter mark, but a strong middle section saw her heading the field and impressive Romanian Liliana Niga by 0.27 seconds, with 500m remaining.Niga, who beat Boyle in Friday’s heats, failed to fourth, as Rajle powered through to take honours and Boyle staved off Daniela Nachazelova of the Czech Republic by 0.34 seconds back in third.

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