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
Sport Events Coming up in July
We are at the start of a jam packed July, check here for information on the upcoming events? DATES EVENT (SPORT) 27 June – 6 July EQUESTRIAN Team Ireland – World Equestrian Festival CHIO Aachen – Aachen, Germany LINK 28-29 June ATHLETICS Team Ireland – European Athletics Team Championships Division 2 – Maribor, Slovenia LINK [...]
Wind Powered Performance – How Flogas are supporting Olympic Sailors Robert Dickson and Sean Waddilove
Marginal gains, fine tuning, the elusive final pieces of the jigsaw. Whatever metaphor you care to choose, everyone in high performance sport is desperately seeking an edge. The margins between winning a medal or not in Olympic sport are so miniscule that athletes leave no stone unturned, believing that even the tiniest gain can lead [...]
In The News – June 16th
Men’s Hockey | Ireland Edge Belgium in FIH Pro League Thriller Ireland secured a stunning 3–2 victory over world-ranked #2 Belgium in Antwerp - their first win of the 2024/25 FIH Pro League season. Louis Rowe opened the scoring; Lee Cole struck twice with penalty corners. Jaime Carr delivered a Player of the Match performance, [...]
Eve McMahon ranked as World Number One
Irish sailor Eve McMahon of Howth Yacht Club has achieved another historic milestone, becoming World Number One in the latest World Sailing rankings, released on June 10th. This marks the first time McMahon has held the top spot, following her impressive bronze medal performance at the ILCA World Championships in China last month and a [...]
Eve McMahon’s Breakthrough Moment As She Wins Her First Senior Medal
Eve McMahon has had so much success at youth and age-level sailing that it is easy to presume her historic bronze medal at the ILCA 6 sailing World Championships in Qingdao in May was expected. The 21-year-old Howth Yacht Club star’s phenomenal trajectory – back-to-back World U21 titles and 13th on her Olympic debut last [...]
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 [...]