Friday's results from the World Rowing Championships in Seville, Spain:

Men
Lightweight pair
Semifinal A/B
(Top three per semifinal advance; rest to final B for places 7-12)
First race -- 1, Chile (Christian Raul Yantani Garces, Miguel Angel Cerda Silva), 6:39.03. 2, Italy, 6:40.13. 3, United States (Simon Carcagno, Michael Altman), 6:43.35. 4, Australia, 6:44.39. 5, France, 6:49.97. 6. Germany, 6:51.71.

Second race -- 1, Ireland (Gearoid Kevin Towey, Anthony Francis O'Connor), 6:34.03. 2, Britain, 6:34.58. 3, Canada, 6:37.14. 4, Netherlands, 6:37.76. 5, Romania, 6:43.18. 6, Russia, 6:46.99.

Lightweight double sculls
Semifinal A/B
(Top three per semifinal advance; rest to final B for places 7-12)
First race -- 1, Germany (Peter Ording, Manuel Oliver Brehmer), 6:18.63. 2, Australia, 6:19.35. 3, Denmark, 6:20.48. 4, Russia, 6:21.75. 5, Netherlands, 6:36.57. 6, Japan, 8:03.15.

Second race -- 1, Italy (Elia Luini, Leonardo Pettinari), 6:15.58. 2, Poland, 6:18.18. 3, Greece, 6:20.40. 4, Spain, 6:25.13. 5, Britain, 6:25.86. 6, Brazil, 6:29.66.

Lightweight four
(Top three to final)
First race -- 1, Denmark (Hans Thor Kristensen, Thomas Ebert, Stephan Moelvig, Eskild Balschmidt Ebbesen), 5:53.17. 2, Italy, 5:56.05. 3, France, 5:57.65. 4, Austria, 5:59.10. 5, Poland, 5:59.79. 6, Britain, 6:03.06.

Second race -- 1, Australia (Simon Burgess, Robert Mitchell, Ben Cureton, Glen Roy Loftus), 5:55.81. 2, Germany, 5:57.13. 3, Canada, 5:57.14. 4, Ireland, 5:59.70. 5, Yugoslavia, 6:00.83. 6, United States, 6:03.13.

Quadruple sculls
(Top three to final)
First race -- 1, Germany (Rene Bertram, Stephan Volkert, Marco Geisler, Robert Sens), 5:42.66. 2, Poland, 5:44.42. 3, Ukraine, 5:46.58. 4, Czech Republic, 5:51.56. 5, Estonia, 5:51.57. 6, United States (Callahan, DuRoss, Allen, Holbrook), 5:53.69.

Second race -- 1, Italy (Mattia Righetti, Marco Ragazzi, Rossano Galtarossa, Simone Raineri), 5:44.46. 2, Russia, 5:46.05. 3, Belarus, 5:46.88. 4, France, 5:50.21. 5, Slovenia, 5:50.41. 6, Netherlands, 5:50.77.

Women
Lightweight double sculls
(Top three per semifinal advance; rest to final B for places 7-12)
First race -- 1, Germany (Janet Raduenzel, Claudia Blasberg), 7:01.05. 2, Britain, 7:02.87. 3, Netherlands, 7:03.58. 4, United States, 7:05.67. 5, France, 7:11.43. 6, Greece, 7:18.33.

Second race -- 1, Australia (Sally Anne Causby, Amber Jae Halliday), 7:03.17. 2, Poland, 7:05.32. 3, Denmark, 7:06.27. 4, Canada, 7:06.43. 5, Romania, 7:14.16. 6, Finland, 7:16.82.