Eve McMahon
Sailing
BIOGRAPHY
Eve is Ireland’s youngest ever Olympic sailor after qualifying for Paris last January, with a race to spare, while competing in her first senior ILCA6 World Championships in Argentina, where she finished 20th overall. A training partner for Rio silver medallist Annalise Murphy when she was a teenager, Eve currently trains alongside the reigning Olympic champion Anne-Marie Rindom (Denmark). The Dubliner won a ‘triple crown’ of major youth titles (two Worlds and one European) in 2022 before she’d even sat her Leaving Cert. She combines full-time study with sailing and completed second year exams (International Commerce) in UCD in May where she is an Ad Astra scholarship student. Eve won the World Under-21 title last October despite capsizing during the race series and, with five race wins and a race to spare, impressively retained that title in Portugal in July, when she used it as a pre-Olympic warm-up. Earlier this year she carried the Olympic flame for Ireland in the international torch relay when it landed in Marseille, from Athens.
SAILING NEWS
Day 8 – Team Ireland Paris 2024
Team Ireland’s Gymnastics superstar Rhys McClenaghan has won an Olympic gold medal in the Pommel Horse final this evening, with a magnificent score of 15.533, becoming the first Irish gymnast to ever win an Olympic medal. Cyclist Ben Healy secured Ireland’s best ever result in an Olympic road race with a brilliant 10th place finish this afternoon. Team [...]
DAY 4 | AFTERNOON REPORT PARIS 2024
At the canoe slalom Michaela Corcoran in the women’s C1 placed 21st overall and did not advance to the semi-finals, while Kildare paddler Noel Hendrick did enough over the course of his two runs in the K1 to advance to Thursday’s semi-final, ranked 19th. The Irish women’s rugby sevens team concluded their first ever Olympic Games with an eighth place finish [...]
2024 OLYMPIC GAMES – DAY 3 AFTERNOON REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND
In Canoe Slalom double Olympian Liam Jegou put in an incredible run in the semi-final of the Men’s C1 to reach his first Olympic final an hour later where he placed an amazing seventh overall. Defending lightweight champion Kellie Harrington impressively defeated Italian Alessia Mesiano in the last 16 to advance to the quarter-finals on Wednesday evening (31st July). Her [...]
AFTERNOON REPORT ON DAY TWO FROM TEAM IRELAND
On the water in Marseilles Sailors Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove impressed to win the third of their 12 qualifying races in the Skiff this afternoon, having earlier placed fourth in the second race. In boxing Offaly welterweight (66kg) Grainne Walsh was beaten by Hungarian opponent Anna Luca Hamori in the preliminaries this afternoon 4-1.The first ever Irish Women’s Rugby Sevens team at an [...]
MORNING REPORT ON DAY TWO FROM TEAM IRELAND
Three of the five Irish boats in action this morning, including reigning Olympic champions Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan, qualified directly through to the semi-finals of their respective events, with the women’s lightweight double qualifying for the repechage tomorrow where they will have a second chance to secure a semi-final spot, and the women’s four [...]
Irish Sailor Eve McMahon selected to take part in the Olympic Torch Relay in Marseille
Celebrations are about to get underway in Marseille, France today (8 May) as the city prepares for the arrival of the Olympic flame to French soil. Irish sailor, and Team Ireland Paris Scholar, Eve McMahon, has been selected by the French Embassy in Ireland as the Irish representative to participate in the Olympic Torch Relay [...]