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title: Australian Eights join busy day five schedule in Shanghai
description: Australia’s campaign at the 2025 World Rowing Championships steps into another gear on Thursday with the Women’s and Men’s Eights making their long-awaited debuts, joined by crews across Para and small boat events in a packed day of racing.
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# [Australian Eights join busy day five schedule in Shanghai](https://rowingaustralia.com.au/latest_news/australian-eights-join-busy-day-five-schedule-in-shanghai)

 Written by [Nick Jones](https://rowingaustralia.com.au/latest_news/author/nick-jones) | 24 September 2025 11:51:56 AM

**By Nick Jones with the Rowsellas in Shanghai**

Australia’s campaign at the 2025 World Rowing Championships steps into another gear on Thursday with the Women’s and Men’s Eights making their long-awaited debuts, joined by crews across Para and small boat events in a packed day of racing.

 

The Women’s Eight will feature in Heat 1 against Canada, China, the Netherlands and Romania at 12:05pm (AEST).

 

Just over 10 minutes later, the Men’s Eight will launch in Heat 1 against Romania, Poland, Great Britain and Italy.

 

In Para-rowing, the PR3 Mixed Double Sculls of Sam Stunell and Lisa Greissl begin their campaign in Heat 1 against Uzbekistan, Brazil, Japan and Italy at 12:57pm.

 

The Men’s Double Sculls of Oscar McGuinness and Mitchell Reinhard return to racing after their Semi-Final was moved to Thursday due to weather conditions. They face Switzerland, Poland, Serbia, New Zealand and Belgium in Semi-Final 2 at 1:21pm, with the top three progressing to the A-Final.

 

The Men’s Quadruple Sculls of Nicholas Blackman, Johnson Daubney, Jackson Free and Alexander Rossi will round out the day in the B Final at 3:53pm against crews from the Czech Republic, Spain, China, Romania and France. The Women's Pair of Taylor Caudle and Eleanor Price will also wrap up the Shanghai campaign in the B Final at 3:35pm.

 

Australian Crews Racing Tomorrow – Day Five

12.05 (AEST) – Women’s Eights Heat 1: Hayley Verbunt OLY (Cox), Paige Barr OLY, Jaime Ford, Laura Gourley OLY, Zara Collisson, Ella Bramwell, Sophie Houston, Katherine Easton, Georgie Gleeson

12:17 (AEST) – Men’s Eights Heat 1: Nicholas Dunlop (Cox), Patrick Long, Angus Dawson OLY, Alex Nichol, Harry Manton, Marcus Emmett, Jack Robertson OLY, Alexander McClean, Mitch Salisbury

12.57 (AEST) – PR3 Mixed Double Sculls Heat 1: Lisa Greissl, Sam Stunnell

13.21 (AEST) – Men’s Double Sculls Semi 2: Oscar McGuinness, Mitchell Reinhard

15.35 (AEST) – Women’s Pairs B-Final: Taylor Caudle, Eleanor Price

15.53 (AEST) – Men’s Quadruple Sculls B-Final: Nicholas Blackman, Johnson Daubney, Jackson Free, Alexander Rossi

 

**How to Follow the 2025 World Rowing Championships**

Here is how to follow the event on mobile, tablet, or desktop:

1. The provisional time table for the events can be found [here](https://worldrowing.com/event/2025-world-rowing-championships/?tab=information) and entries for all the events can be found [here](https://worldrowing.com/event/2025-world-rowing-championships/?tab=entries).
2. Live race tracker and LIVE audio will be available for ALL races on [www.worldrowing.com.](https://worldrowing.com/)
3. LIVE video streaming will be available on the World Rowing [website](http://www.worldrowing.com/), Foxtel, and Kayo Sports from Sunday September 21 from 12.00 AEST. The video streaming will start 5 minutes before the first race.

[Meet your 2025 World Rowing Championships Rowsellas](https://rowingaustralia.com.au/the-australian-rowing-team)

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