Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre become two-time medallists with bronze in the women’s pair at the Paris Olympics

Jess Morrison and Annabelle McIntyre are celebrating changing into two-time Olympic medallists after successful Australia’s first rowing medal in Paris, clinching bronze within the girls’s pair.

The Australians completed behind dominant Dutch duo Ymkje Clevering and Veronique Meester, with Romanians Ioana Vrinceanu and Roxana Anghel taking silver on the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.

It is the second Olympic medal for the Australian duo after they gained gold racing within the 4 in Tokyo.

The pair had been embraced by billionaire mining magnate and rowing benefactor Gina Rinehart after receiving their medal.

Morrison, 32, stated Rinehart did extra than simply write cheques for the rowers.

“She was simply saying how happy with us she was,” stated Morrison, who regardless of finishing an economics diploma and MBA depends on Rinehart’s direct funding to the game.

“She’s actually part of the expertise. She would not simply present help and watch from afar, she’s actually in it with us.

“We get messages from her and he or she actually stays up within the loop in her busy schedule so we actually respect the period of time she takes.”

Morrison and McIntyre be a part of Kate Slatter, who gained gold within the pair in 1996 and silver in 2000, and Kim Brennan, who earned two sculling medals in London and gold in Rio, as the one Australian girls with a number of Olympic rowing medals.

The pair stated they had been glad that they had given their all.

“We’re actually happy with ourselves,” the 27-year-old West Australian McIntrye stated.

“We went on the market to execute our race plan and that was to be actually aggressive out of the beginning and simply race the race, actually.

“It is all the time laborious to get pipped on the road however we’re actually happy with our efficiency. We put every little thing on the market at the moment and could not have finished significantly better.”

Clevering and Meester, who had been a part of the Dutch 4 Australia relegated to silver in Tokyo, burst out from the beginning line and had been by no means headed.

They ending 4.3 seconds clear as the remainder of the sector battled for the minor medals.

Australia appeared destined for silver after sitting in that place for a lot of the ultimate however had been overtaken by Romania about 100m earlier than the end, lacking second by 0.57 seconds.

The bronze medal presents some redemption for Morrison and McIntyre after they missed the pair last altogether in Tokyo.

They had been making an attempt the uncommon feat in Olympic rowing of successful medals in two totally different boat lessons at a Video games and achieved their first purpose with gold within the 4.

However as a result of a tropical storm, Tokyo organisers rescheduled racing which meant the pair solely had two hours between the ultimate of the 4 and the semi-final of the pair, quite than the anticipated 24 hours.

It proved too robust, with the duo fading within the last metres to overlook the medal race by 0.34 seconds.

“It was simply ending off the cycle. Coming away with not simply the journey however I assume the {hardware} as properly is all the time good,” McIntyre stated.

AAP