Paris 2024: Aoife Casey and Margaret Cremen win repechage to make double sculls semis

Aoife Casey and Margaret Cremen won their repechage to make semi-finals of women's double sculls at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.

The Irish boat will go in lane five of the second semi-final, with the first race going off at 10.34am on Wednesday.

Second after 500m, they took control from there on, eventually finishing in a time of 7:11.38, more than five seconds ahead of the Canada crew, who moved into semis along with third-place Argentina, who were 28 seconds behind Casey and Cremen.