GRANGE School student Scott Ozsanlav-Harris narrowly missed out on a place in the final at the World Rowing Junior Championships.

The 18-year-old, in Great Britain’s men’s double with Matthew Swiss, finished a creditable fourth at the end of the semi final in Rio on Friday.

Only the leading three boats progress to the A final.

Ozsanlav-Harris and Swiss, racing for the third time in 24 hours, trailed off the pace in fifth after 500m before moving through to fourth by the race’s halfway mark.

They increased their stroke-rate again, gaining an overlap on third-placed Czech tandem Jan Cincibuch and Eduard Bezdek.

However an oar from the British boat struck an oar in the closing stages, and their rivals held on.

“We were close to them all the way through,” said Ozsanlav-Harris afterwards.

“We started to get nearer in the last 250m, but ran out of course.”

Their time, 6.37.44, would have earned second spot in the other semi final.

The duo, coached by Grange's Matthew Jump, now contest the B final on Saturday, when a victory will secure seventh overall.

Ozsanlav-Harris and Swiss had improved on a fifth-place finish in Thursday morning’s heat to win their repechage later the same day after making a decisive break to leave behind crews from France and New Zealand.

They are scheduled to be back on the water in Brazil at 12.50pm on Saturday, China, Estonia, France, Netherlands and New Zealand complete the line-up.