The women's lightweight single sculls competition at the 2025 World Rowing Championships took place at Dianshan Lake, in Shanghai.
Schedule The schedule was as follows: Date Time Round Tuesday 23 September 2025 10:05 HeatsThursday, 25 September 2025 10:31 Semifinals 11:22 Final CSaturday, 27 September 2025 13:25 Final B 14:33 Final A All times are UTC+08:00
Results Heats The two fastest boats in each heat and the six fastest times advanced to the semifinals. The remaining boats were sent to the Final C.
Heat 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Kenia Lechuga 7:35.42 SF 2Karissa Riley 7:36.80 SF 3Siobhan McCrohan 7:36.98 SF 4Nicole Yarzon 7:54.33 SF 5Kim Ji-seon 8:19.87 FC 6Binti Zakaria Nurzarinah DNS
Heat 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Mariia ZhovnerIndividual Neutral Athletes 7:44.31 SF 2Dimitra Kontou 7:51.87 SF 3Maia Emilie Lund 7:55.32 SF 4Eszter Fehérvári 8:05.31 FC 5Mariya Chernets 8:22.46 FC
Heat 3 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Michelle Sechser 7:33.64 SF 2Pan Dandan 7:36.79 SF 3Lara Tiefenthaler 7:40.99 SF 4Femke van de Vliet 7:44.91 SF 5Winne Hung 7:45.72 SF
Semifinals The three fastest boats in each heat advance to the Final A. The remaining boats were sent to the Final B. Semifinal 1 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Michelle Sechser 8:01.20 FA 2Pan Dandan 8:04.05 FA 3Lara Tiefenthaler 8:05.48 FA 4Karissa Riley 8:06.77 FB 5Femke van de Vliet 8:18.08 FB 6Maia Emilie Lund 8:26.63 FB
Semifinal 2 RankRowerCountryTimeNotes 1Siobhan McCrohan 8:06.23 FA 2Kenia Lechuga 8:06.27 FA 3Mariia ZhovnerIndividual Neutral Athletes 8:06.35 FA 4 Nicole Yarzon 8:12.40 FB 5Dimitra Kontou 8:20.19 FB 6 Winne Hung 8:23.83 FB
Finals The A final determined the rankings for places 1 to 6. Additional rankings were determined in the other finals.
Final C RankRowerCountryTimeTotal rank 1Eszter Fehérvári 8:36.56 13 2Kim Ji-seon 8:46.68 14 3Mariya Chernets 8:56.70 15
Final B
RankRowerCountryTimeTotal rank 1Karissa Riley 7:43.47 7 2Femke van de Vliet 7:47.08 8 3Winne Hung 7:50.21 9 4Dimitra Kontou 7:52.52 10 5Maia Emilie Lund 7:54.41 11 6Nicole Yarzon 8:09.88 12
Final A RankRowerCountryTimeNotes Michelle Sechser 7:30.14 Pan Dandan 7:30.45 Kenia Lechuga 7:32.23 4Siobhan McCrohan 7:37.25 5Lara Tiefenthaler 7:40.30 6Mariia ZhovnerIndividual Neutral Athletes 7:42.89
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