Sanita Puspure and Konan Pazzaia advance to Olympic qualifier finals

Ireland's Sanita Puspure and Konan Pazzaia have advanced to their respective finals at the Olympic qualifier regatta in Switzerland.

The Lucerne event represents a last chance saloon for rowers bidding to make it to Paris this summer, and Puspure progressed to her single sculls final in particularly impressive fashion.

The 42-year-old clocked the fastest time of all tomorrow's finalists when she recorded a time of seven minutes 38 seconds to win her semi-final, with Switzerland's Aurelia-Maxima Katharina Janzen and Slovakia's Nina Kostanjsek her nearest pursuers.

Konan Pazzaia finished third in his single sculls semi-final behind Romania's Mihai Chiruta, with Tokyo silver medallist Kjetil Borch of Norway filling the runner-up berth.

The top two in Wednesday's finals will secure Olympic qualification.