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 […]
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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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ADDITIONAL FUNDS ADDED WITH €115,000 DISTRIBUTED ACROSS 16 SPORTS Following an overwhelming response in applications to the Make a Difference athlete fund that was announced by the OFI Athletes’ Commission earlier this year, the Olympic Federation of Ireland has channelled an additional €50,000 directly to athletes. Athletes across sixteen sports were awarded a total amount
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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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