After battling at the top of his 60 boat event all week, Ireland’s Rocco Wright (Howth Yacht Club) held his nerve and emerged overall winner of the ILCA6 Men’s European Championship on the Côte d’Azur today (Monday 21st November 2022, Hyères, France). The 16 year old also won the U21 division and this event is […]
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Eve McMahon has finished in 44th place and leader of the silver fleet at the 2022 ILCA 6 World Championship in Texas last night. The fleet divided earlier in the week, with Eve just missing the cut for gold fleet. She then went on to take three first places and one second in the final series in
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Harry Hermon, together with the Board of Irish Sailing, has announced that he will retire as CEO of Irish Sailing at the end of December 2022. Harry started working with Irish Sailing in 1999 and became CEO in 2006. During his tenure he has overseen four Olympic Games and the historic silver medal won in Rio in 2016 which changed
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Eve McMahon has delivered a dream outcome to her 2022 season by retaining her youth world championship title in Houston, Texas tonight after delivering more race wins on the final day of the series. Competing in the single-handed ILCA6 class (Laser Radial) the Howth Yacht Club sailor has added this second world title to Gold medals
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Both of Ireland’s single-handed sailors have won Gold medals at the Allianz Youth Sailing World Championships in The Hague this afternoon (The Netherlands, Thursday 14th July 2022) Eve McMahon and Rocco Wright, both from Howth Yacht Club delivered outstanding performances over their seven-races series that started on Sunday. McMahon led her 55-strong field from day
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After two days of racing at the Allianz Youth Sailing World Championships in The Hague, (The Netherlands, Monday 11th July 2022) two Irish boats are showing strong early performances at this key pathway event. Following on from her European championship win in Greece last week, Eve McMahon (Howth Yacht Club) leads her one-person dinghy event
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Dickson and Waddilove win silver at sailing World Cup in the Netherlands 49er team Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove have won the medal race and secured a silver medal at the 2022 Hempel World Cup Allianz Regatta in the Netherlands today. The World Cup saw ten Olympic classes compete in Almere in the southern part
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Rhasidat Adeleke (Athletics)Rhasidat (who doesn’t turn 20 until August 2022) is from Tallaght and is already blazing a trail for Irish sprinting. In 2018, aged just15, she became the European Youth (U18) 200m champion in Hungary. In 2019 she won double sprint gold at the European Youth Olympics in Baku. In July 2021 she became
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Clear skies and fresh winds on the Bay of Palma saw two Irish boats make steady ground towards Saturday’s medal race finals. Finn Lynch continued his steady and consistent form that he has displayed all week in the ILCA7 (formerly Laser class) class, scoring eighth and 14th for the day, scores that move him up
Following another windswept day on the Bay of Palma, two Irish single-handed sailors have qualified for the ILCA7 (formerly Laser) men’s event. Rio 2016 Olympian and Carlow sailor Finn Lynch (National Yacht Club) had another consistent day to place 20th overall out 163 boats so easily makes the 55 boat cut for Gold fleet. His
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Welcome to the first Performance Update of 2022. The team are already in Year 2 of a compressed Olympic cycle leading to Paris 2024 (with the sailing taking place in Marseille). Quick recap – Finishing 2021 in style 2021 ended on a high with Finn Lynch winning Silver at the Laser World Championships in Barcelona
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Eve McMahon of Howth has finished in 4th place in the Women’s ILCA6 (Laser Radial) at the Youth Sailing World Championships in Mussanah, Oman. A 3rd, 6th and 8th place in the final three races secured Eve’s 4th place in the fleet of 46. Her result rounds off a highly successful year of competition, winning
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