Paris Olympics 2024: Cork rowers get ready to go for gold

Fri, 02 Aug, 2024 - 08:30

Rachel Lysaght

Following a triumphant day at the Olympic Games yesterday for Team Ireland, today’s line up of competitors includes a Cork rowing duo vying for a second Gold medal.

Paul O’Donovan of UCC Rowing Club and Fintan McCarthy of Skibbereen Rowing Club made history at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where the pair won Ireland’s first ever rowing gold medal in the Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls A Final.

The O'Donovan and McCarthy pair will revisit this feat today in Paris in the Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls A Final, as the three-time and two-time Olympian duo take another stab at placing first on the honoured podium.

Also competing in the women’s lightweight double sculls A Final is another Cork two-time Olympic rowing duo, consisting of Aoife Casey and Margaret Cremen of UCC Rowing Club.

Here’s the list of what to watch out for today as Team Ireland continue to reap the rewards of their hard work:

ROWING

9am Men’s Coxless Pair [A Final]: Ross Corrigan (FERMANAGH) and Nathan Timoney (FERMANAGH).
9am Women’s Coxless Pair [B Final]: Fiona Murtagh (GALWAY) and Aifric Keogh (GALWAY).
10am Men’s lightweight double sculls [A Final]: Paul O’Donovan (CORK) and Fintan McCarthy (CORK).
10am Women’s lightweight double sculls [A Final]: Aoife Casey (CORK) and Margaret Cremen (CORK).

SAILING

2.35pm Men’s Dinghy Series [Race 3]: Finn Lynch (CARLOW).
11.15am Women’s Dinghy Series [Race 3]: Eve McMahon (DUBLIN).

ATHLETICS

10.10am Men’s 1,500m [Round 1]: Cathal Doyle (DUBLIN) Luke McCann (DUBLIN) and Andrew Coscoran (DUBLIN).
6.10pm Mixed Relay 4x400m [Round 1]: Chris O'Donnell (SLIGO), Rhasidat Adeleke (DUBLIN), Thomas Barr (WATERFORD), and Sharlene Mawdsley (TIPPERARY).
11.15am Men’s Decathalon Shot Put [Group A]: Eric Favors (MAYO).

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