Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre add to their Tokyo silver by earning a bronze medal in the women's pair at the Paris Olympics.
LIVE UPDATES: Follow our blog for all the action highlights and results from day seven as it happens Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre are celebrating becoming two-time Olympic medallists after winning Australia's first rowing medal in Paris, clinching bronze in the women's pair.
The pair were embraced by billionaire mining magnate and rowing benefactor Gina Rinehart after receiving their medal."She was just saying how proud of us she was," said Morrison, who despite completing an economics degree and MBA relies on Rinehart's direct funding to the sport. Morrison and McIntyre join Kate Slatter, who won gold in the pair in 1996 and silver in 2000, and Kim Brennan, who earned two sculling medals in London and gold in Rio, as the only Australian women with multiple Olympic rowing medals."We're really proud of ourselves," the 27-year-old West Australian McIntrye said.
Clevering and Meester, who were part of the Dutch four Australia relegated to silver in Tokyo, burst out from the start line and were never headed.Australia appeared destined for silver after sitting in that position for much of the final but were overtaken by Romania about 100m before the finish, missing second by 0.57 seconds.
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