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Wednesday 6 December 2023 Dublin: 4°C

# Rowing

This year
2023
Ireland's Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy crowned world champions for third time
Skibbereen duo win gold again at World Rowing Championships in Belgrade.
Ireland's Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy crowned world champions for third time
Skibbereen duo win gold again at World Rowing Championships in Belgrade.
McCarthy and O'Donovan through as three Irish crews book Olympic places
The World Rowing Championships are taking place in Belgrade.
O'Donovan and McCarthy get World Championship hat-trick bid off to seamless start
Five Irish boats in action on the opening day of the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade.
McCarthy eyes another medal as Ireland's new pairing progress at European Championships
Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls and Double Sculls duos advance after winning their respective heats in Slovenia.
Last year
2022
Former rugby player Damian Browne welcomed home by crowds at Port of Galway
Browne spent 112 days at sea and travelled over 3,450 nautical miles.
'I wasn't planning to be here' - Puspure savours third World medal in new double act
The two-time single sculls world champion, 40, took bronze with Kerry’s Zoe Hyde in Sunday’s double sculls final.
O'Donovan and McCarthy win their World Rowing Championships semi-final
Meanwhile, Olympic bronze medallists Aifric Keogh, Eimear Lambe, Fiona Murtagh and Emily Hegarty are also through to the final of the women’s four.
O'Donovan and McCarthy storm into semi-finals of World Championships in Czech Republic
The competition is taking place in Racice.
Ireland's Aoife Casey finishes fourth in European Championship final
Lydia Heaphy and Margaret Cremen also finished fourth in the lightweight women’s double sculls final.
Sensational O'Donovan and McCarthy crowned European rowing champions again
Clinical Irish duo win European Championship gold in Munich.
Ireland's women's four take silver medal at European Championships
The Irish women’s pair missed out on a medal in their final.
Ireland's Olympic medalists dominate rowing heats at the European Championships in Munich
A round-up of the Irish in action on the water in Germany.
Ireland's Paul O'Donovan breaks record and wins World Cup gold
The 28-year-old Olympic gold medallist also made history with a time of 6:47.15
All time
'Paris could definitely be on the cards' - Lambe open to Olympic return in 2024
Winning bronze in Tokyo has fuelled a desire to go back for more.
Olympic gold medallists O'Donovan and McCarthy to face each other in Irish Rowing Championships
Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy will both be in action in Inniscarra this weekend.
'There had been four female Irish Olympian medallists and we doubled that number in one race'
Ireland’s bronze-medal wining rowers have returned home.
'There’s nothing special about us and a lot of hard work can get you there'
Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy retuned home today after their stunning Olympic success.
Homecoming celebrations for Skibbereen's Olympic medalists to be low-key
Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy are due home to Ireland tomorrow.
The Irish rowing Olympian who led New Zealand to an unlikely gold in Tokyo
Tony O’Connor saw his team storm to gold earlier.
'It’s heartbreaking to have to pull out' - Puspure withdraws from Olympic B final due to illness
The 39-year-old says she had not been feeling well over the past few days.
'She's done rowing in Ireland proud and she can hold her head high knowing what she's done'
Rowing team chief Fearghal O’Callaghan reflected on a ‘bittersweet’ day.
TV Wrap - Welcome to Rowing Country, where people get up early in the morning
A review of the coverage of Ireland’s first medal success of the Tokyo Olympics.
Olympic rowing schedule disrupted by incoming storm
Sanita Puspure’s semifinal has been rescheduled as a result.
No medal race for Irish pair Byrne and Doyle as they finish last in semi-final
The Irish pair were tipped as medal contenders in Tokyo.
Medal hopes remain on course as Sanita Puspure eases to Olympic semi-finals
Puspure won her quarter-final in the women’s single sculls in Tokyo this morning.
Fine Irish rowing form continues with double repechage success
The women’s pair Monika Dukarska and Aileen Crowley and the lightweight duo of Aoife Casey and Margret Cremen delivered the results they needed.
Sanita Puspure comfortably into quarter-finals as Ireland's Olympics begins
Byrne and Doyle face repechage after missing automatic qualification for the men’s double sculls semis.
‘I’m ready to fight for a medal’: Sanita Puspure on her final shot at Olympic glory for Ireland
At 39, the world champion rower is hoping to banish the disappointments of the 2012 and 2016 Games by unleashing her talent in Japan.
Paul O'Donovan: 'Really, there's a ceiling on how happy you can be, winning medals'
‘There was a pre-Socratic philosopher, Heraclitus, who said, ‘A man can never fall in the same river twice.”
Another gold for O'Donovan and McCarthy as Ireland's rowers win five medals at World Cup II
Gold, three silvers, and a bronze as Ireland’s rowers continue their Olympic campaign in Lucerne.
Successful morning for Irish rowing as another two boats secure Olympic qualification
Mission accomplished for the women’s four and lightweight women’s double at the Lucerne regatta.
Impressive Irish four book place in final at Olympic qualifier
The decider will now be held tomorrow morning due to forecasted poor weather.
O'Donovan and McCarthy win gold for Ireland at European Rowing Championships
Silver in Varese for Irish women’s four of Emily Hegarty, Eimear Lambe, Aifric Keogh and Fiona Murtagh.
Two Irish boats claim spots in European rowing finals
Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy made a statement of intent with their victory.
Four Irish crews book their place in European Rowing Championship finals
Women’s four and women’s pair crews qualify for A Finals along with Lydia Heaphy and Gary O’Donovan.
3-time Olympic rowing champion Kathleen Heddle dies at 55
She was the quiet half of a powerful partnership with the outgoing Marnie McBean.
Meet one of Irish sport’s best athletes - also Irish sport’s best kept secret
Fintan McCarthy has a great chance of winning gold at next year’s Olympics. So how come he is not already a national treasure?
Puspure claims gold at European Rowing Championships as Ireland win medals in four events
Fintan McCarthy was the Irish rower of the day to secure a medal in the lightweight men’s sculls.
Defending champion Sanita Puspure advances to another European final
Five Irish crews have done enough to secure places in tomorrow’s A finals in Poznan, Poland.