LIAM YOUNG of Bantry Rowing Club won the 33rd Cork Sculling Ladder, while his club-mate Alison Downey won the women’s event for the fifth successive year.

Eamon Joyce of Cork BC and the Cork sculling ladder caused a major upset at the sixth Guinness sculling challenges when he defeated Enda Marron of Lady Victoria boat club and the Belfast sculling league and Sean Jacob of Commercial rowing club and the Dublin sculling ladder in Belfast on Saturday.