The women did that in the double four. Tessa Dullemans, Willemijn Mulder, Margot Leeuwenburgh and Lisa Bruijnincx just kept a title defender and Olympic champion Great Britain behind him. The bronze was for Germany.
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The double four, good for silver at the Olympic Games last year, won the bronze at the European Championship in the Bulgarian Plovdiv earlier this year. Then Olympian Dullemans took the place of Lisanne van der Leij.
Are also successful
Both the Men-Acht and the Women-Acht reached Mick Makker, Jan van der Bij, Finn Florijn, Wibout Rustenburg, Pieter van Veen, Sander de Graaf, Eli Brouwer, Jorn Salverda and mate Jonna de Vries on Thursday at the Rowing World Championships, and only had to leave the British and the Italians in time.
Among the women, Tinka Offereins, Ymkje Clevering, Ilse Kolkman, Hermijntje Drenth, Vera Sneijders, Lisanne van der Lelij, Nika Vos, Linn van Aanholt and mate Dieuwke Fetter only needed the Romanian women in their heat. In the other heat, no country was faster than Orange.
The finals of the prestigious part are Saturday.