2023 European Rowing Championships Review
W2x (Women’s doubles)
Great Britain’s Kyra Edwards (bow) and Saskia Budgett finished third in the B-Final.
Both openweight doubles events are currently reigned over – in European terms at least – by doubles which scull to the limit every time they go out, and are very hard to beat. But reigning world, European and Olympic champions Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis were put on the back foot by Lithuania’s Donata Karaliene and Dovile Rimkute, the assistance of Gianni Postiglione in the LTU coaching starting to show. Chomping along at 38-39 strokes a minute the Lithuanians ate up the distance and by 1400m gone had pretty much a full length advantage and showing no signs of relenting.