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Rowers Thea Hofset and Inger Kavlie during the European Rowing Championships in Hungary. -
Thea Helseth.
Rowers Thea Hofset and Inger Kavlie during the European Rowing Championships in Hungary. Photo: Oskar Sødal / handout / NTB
Thea Helseth. Photo: Javad Parsa / NTB
Rowers Thea Helseth and Inger Kavlie ensured Norway’s first championship medal on the women’s side in double sculls.
Sunday 28 April at 14:03The Norwegians went out in the lead together with Lithuania and had a small gap to the other competitors after 1000 metres. Eventually they gained a lead of half a boat’s length and kept away all the way to the finish line in Szeged, Hungary.
Lithuania with Donata Karaliene and Dovile Rimkute and Romania with Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis took silver and bronze respectively.
Helseth and Kavlie are a newly composed duo after Jenny Marie Rørvik did not get a place in the European championships.
It was Rørvik and Helseth who qualified the double sculls for the Olympics in Paris, but only the boat is qualified. The Rowing Association has not selected the athletes yet.
Ahead of the European Championships, the association stated that it would send the athletes “with the greatest performance potential in terms of placing in the Olympics/PL in Paris”.
