First women’s boat at the 2024 Games: Buttignon and Crosio qualify in double sculls

Italian rowing qualifies the first women’s boat – a fifth in total – for the Paris 2024 Games. After the passes obtained by the men in coxless pairs, double sculls, light-heavyweight double sculls and quadruple sculls, Stefania Buttignon and Silvia Crosio (photo Federcanottaggio) also qualified the women’s double sculls for next year’s Olympics.

The two Italian women finished the World Championships in Belgrade in the best possible manner, winning the B final. After a steady start, fifth on the first intermediate pass, Buttignon and Crosio shifted gears and finished in first place in a very closely balanced race ahead of Australia, Norway, China and the Netherlands, with South Africa last by a few tenths-of-a-second and excluded from the Paris Games for the time being.

No way through at the moment, however, for Davide Mumolo in single sculls. Despite a good finish, the Italian finished fifth in the B final of the World Championships, some six seconds shy of third place, the last valid for Olympic qualification.

Also fading away in the A final was the possible Olympic qualification for the women’s eight. The Azzurre finished sixth and last, missing out on one of the top five positions that would guarantee a ticket to Paris 2024. Gold medal for Romania ahead of the United States and Australia.