Paul O'Donovan is the only Irish athlete to win a medal at three separate Olympic Games, and a double Olympic champion in the lightweight double sculls alongside Fintan McCarthy.
He won Ireland's first Olympic rowing medal, silver, with his brother Gary at Rio 2016. He took gold with Fintan McCarthy at Tokyo 2020 and successfully defended the title at Paris 2024.
A seven-time world champion, O'Donovan won his first two world titles in the lightweight single sculls in 2016 and 2017. He and Gary won World Championship gold in the lightweight double in 2018, and he added three further titles with McCarthy in 2019, 2022 and 2023.
He rows with Skibbereen Rowing Club. A qualified physiotherapist and medical doctor, he graduated from University College Cork with first class honours, and has been voted Ireland's Greatest Ever Olympian.
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