Quartet through in coxless four event

There was good news for Ireland in Athens after the lightweight coxless four team of Richard Archibald, Eugene Coakley, Niall O' Toole, Paul Griffin made it through this morning's semi-final.

Men’s coxless four semi-final B:

1 Denmark A 5:55.85 (Thor Kristensen, Thomas Ebert, Stephan Moelvig, Eskild Ebbesen),

2 Netherlands A 5:57.47 (Gerard van Der Linden, Ivo Snijders, Karel Dormans, Joeri de Groot),

3 Ireland A 5:58.89 (Richard Archibald, Eugene Coakley, Niall Otoole, Paul Griffin),

4 Russia B 5:59.75 (Aleksandr Zyuzin, Sergej Bukreev, Valerij Saritchev, Aleksandr Savkin),

5 Germany B 6:03.08 (Martin Mueller-Falcke, Axel Schuster, Stefan Locher, Andreas Bech),

6 Spain B 6:07.01 (Mario Arranz Puente, Jesus Gonzalez Alvarez, Carlos Loriente Perez, Alberto Dominguez Lorenzo)