SAILING
Sailing has a long history in the Olympic Games.
The sport made its debut in 1900 and with the exception of 1904 it has appeared at every Olympic Games since then.
The sport’s name was changed from ‘Yachting’ to ‘Sailing’ at the Sydney 2000 Games. They won their first medal in Moscow in 1980, a silver in the Flying Dutchman discipline with the team of David Wilkins and Jamie Wilkinson. Most recently Analise Murphy won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in the Laser Radial.
The Irish Sailing Association or ‘Irish Sailing’ is the national governing body for sailing, powerboating and windsurfing, and the international organisation is the International Sailing Federation.
The aim of Irish Sailing is to develop, support and promote sailing, through the core values of Inspiration, Representation and Participation. In 2018 they established a Sailing Centre of Excellence at Dun Laoghaire which serves as an administrative and training base for their high performance programme and supports Olympic sailing.
Olympic Sailing features a variety of craft, from dinghies and keelboats to windsurfing boards.
Event Programme:
RS:X – Windsurfer (Men/Women)
Laser – One Person Dinghy (Men)
Laser Radial – One Person Dinghy (Women)
Finn – One Person Dinghy (Heavyweight) (Men)
470 – Two Person Dinghy (Men/Women)
49er – Skiff (Men)
49er FX – Skiff (Women)
Nacra 17 Foiling – Mixed Multihull
National Federation: Irish Sailing
International Federation: World Sailing
SAILING NEWS
Day 8 – Team Ireland Paris 2024
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DAY 4 | AFTERNOON REPORT PARIS 2024
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2024 OLYMPIC GAMES – DAY 3 AFTERNOON REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND
In Canoe Slalom double Olympian Liam Jegou put in an incredible run in the semi-final of the Men’s C1 to reach his first Olympic final an hour later where he placed an amazing seventh overall. Defending lightweight champion Kellie Harrington impressively defeated Italian Alessia Mesiano in the last 16 to advance to the quarter-finals on Wednesday evening (31st July). Her [...]
AFTERNOON REPORT ON DAY TWO FROM TEAM IRELAND
On the water in Marseilles Sailors Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove impressed to win the third of their 12 qualifying races in the Skiff this afternoon, having earlier placed fourth in the second race. In boxing Offaly welterweight (66kg) Grainne Walsh was beaten by Hungarian opponent Anna Luca Hamori in the preliminaries this afternoon 4-1.The first ever Irish Women’s Rugby Sevens team at an [...]
SELECTED ATHLETES
Eve McMahon
BIOGRAPHY Eve is Ireland’s youngest ever Olympic sailor after qualifying for Paris last January, with a race to spare, while competing in her first senior ILCA6 World Championships in Argentina, where she finished 20th overall. A training partner for Rio silver medallist Annalise Murphy when she was a teenager, Eve currently trains alongside the reigning [...]
Finn Lynch
BIOGRAPHY Born in Australia and living in Carlow since he was two, Finn started sailing on Blessington Lakes when he was eight. A silver medallist at World Youth Championships in 2012, he was World U19 champion in 2014, and has been training full-time since he completed his Leaving Cert. He was only 20 when he [...]
Robert Dickson
BIOGRAPHY Proudly representing Ireland in the 2024 Paris Olympics, this dedicated and passionate athlete has demonstrated exceptional skill and commitment to their sport. Competing at the highest level, they embody the spirit and resilience of Irish athletes, striving for excellence on the global stage. The entire nation stands behind them, cheering for their success and [...]
Sean Waddilove
BIOGRAPHY World U23 champion in 2018 and bronze medallist in 2019, Seán was an extremely young Olympic debutant in Tokyo 2020 when he won his first and last races but ultimately getting two DQs over harness regulations. He was eighth at the subsequent 2021 Worlds and won the final Irish trial convincingly by finishing fifth [...]
Annalise Murphy
BIOGRAPHY Tokyo is the third Olympics for Annalise. She came agonisingly close to a medal when she finished fourth in London 2012 but bounced back by winning silver in Rio 2016. That was the culmination of years of hard work and success. Annalise was 8th at the 2009 World Championships and sixth at Worlds in [...]