Women’s rowing pairs set the pace

Australian rowers Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre have progressed to the semi-finals of the women’s pairs by setting the fastest time in the heats at the Vaires-Sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.

The pair won heat four in a time of 7mins 16.58secs while The Netherlands was next fastest in 7mins 17.81secs to win heat one.

Despite qualifying fastest, Jess said she and Annabelle had plenty of improvement left in them ahead of the semi-finals on 31 July at 6.54pm AEST.

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"Technically we can improve parts of our stroke and adapt to the conditions differently than we did today,” Jess said.

"There are different parts of the race, where we can make tactical moves and find speed more efficiently, that's the art of rowing and we're always looking to improve that."

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