One nation place for the Paris 2024 Olympics in the Men’s Skiff event will be decided this week at the 49er European Championship in Portugal (Vilamoura, November 8th -n13th) where two Irish crews will be in action. Robert Dickson (Howth Yacht Club) and Sean Waddilove (Skerries Sailing Club) missed qualification by one place at …
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Weekend Round Up: Gillespie is a double European Champion, O’Sullivan and Healy go 1-2 in Espoo, Fay becomes the fastest Irishman ever over 5000m, Coscoran lowers his 1500m National Record, Irish Sailors finish up at the Olympic Test Event in Marseille It was a weekend marked by a long-awaited breakthrough, Gillespie having just been …
Marseilles test event marking countdown to Olympic Sailing regatta With just over one year before the Sailing events of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games get underway, the Marseilles venue is preparing to stage a full rehearsal regatta for all involved next week (7th-16th July 2023). Ireland will have an entry in three events which is …
Gold fleet racing ended on Friday 7th of April, at the Princess Sofia World Cup of Sailing regatta in Palma with no Irish crews through to medal race finals for the first time in several editions. Despite a small improvement in form for Robert Dickson (Howth Yacht Club) and Seán Waddilove (Skerries Sailing Club) in …
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There has been a quick turnaround for the Irish Sailing Performance Team. With the ILCA European Championships behind them where Finn Lynch secured a top 10 finish, Eve McMahon scored 14th and sixteen-year-old Rocco Wright won bronze in the ILCA 6 Men’s class, the senior athletes are now in Mallorca for the Trofeo Princesa Sofia, the first event in the 2023 World Cup series. …
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