Fintan McCarthy
Rowing
BIOGRAPHY
Fintan only started rowing after the 2012 London Olympic Games, and has a degree in physiology from UCC. He won his first Irish title in 2016, and made his first European final with his brother Jake in 2019. He and Paul qualified the LM2x for the Tokyo Games where they won Ireland’s first ever Olympic rowing gold medal. Alongside partner Paul he has won three World (2019, 2022 & 2023) and two European titles (2021 & 2022), and was also a European bronze medallist, in a lightweight single, in 2020. Fintan sat out this year’s Europeans owing to injury but came back to join Paul and win bronze at the recent Lucerne World Cup in May.