Daire Lynch

Daire Lynch

Rowing

BIOGRAPHY

Daire Lynch secured a bronze Olympic medal in the Men’s Double Sculls (M2x) at the 2024 Paris Olympics alongside partner Philip Doyle. The duo had previously qualified for the Olympics by earning bronze at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade.

The medal was the pinnacle of a year of enormous success for Lynch and Doyle, who won gold at World Cup III in Poznań and bronze at World Cup I in Varese. Lynch also claimed gold at the 2020 European U23 Rowing Championships with Ronan Byrne and bronze at the Senior European Championships the same year. He has won five Irish national championships—four in single sculls and one in pairs.

Lynch began rowing in 2015 during his third year of secondary school. He attended Yale University from 2017 to 2022, studying economics and competing in collegiate rowing.

Gender

Male

Discipline

Men’s Double Scull (M2x)

Date Of Birth

June 19, 1998

Hometown

Clonmel, Co Tipperary

Games

Paris 2024

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Medal For Philip Doyle and Daire Lynch at Paris 2024

Team Ireland rowers Philip Doyle and Daire Lynch have won a brilliant Olympic bronze medal in the final of the Men’s Double Sculls (M2x) at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. In doing the Irish duo have won Team Ireland’s fourth medal at these Olympic Games, after Mona McSharry claimed bronze, Daniel Wiffen gold, and [...]

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