Three NUIG rowers – Alan Martin, Cormac Folan and James Wall – combined with Sean O'Neill from the St. Michael's club to take fourth place in the Heavyweight Men's Four B final in Sunday's Rowing World Cup event in Lucerne. The strong finish places the Irish crew tenth in the overall World Cup standings.

The Irish four, which is already assured of a starting berth in Beijing, after securing qualification at last year's World Championships, was looking to improve on Saturday's performance, which saw them take sixth in their semi-final.

On the scenic Rotsee lake, the quarter were fifth at the halfway point but pushed in, found more and moved into fourth place. As they approached the line they closed on the Canadian crew occupying third position with every stroke but the line came too soon and the Irish just missed out on pipping Canada by 0.24 of a second. The German four won the race narrowly ahead of a British crew.

Bowman Wall was pleased with the improved performance; "We definitely put together a better race today. We put more of our training from our camp over the last three weeks into our race today, which is a positive step. It's not as good as we can go, but we're pleased and we've made huge progress over the weekend, which is very important."

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