sport.wikisort.org - AthleteFintan McCarthy (born 23 November 1996) is an Irish lightweight rower. He is an Irish national champion and a world and Olympic champion. He won the men's lightweight double sculls championship title with Paul O'Donovan at the 2019 World Rowing Championships and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics where he set a new world's best time for that event. He also won a bronze medal in lightweight single sculls at the 2020 European Rowing Championships.
Irish rower Olympic gold medalist
Fintan McCarthy
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Nationality | Irish |
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Born | (1996-11-23) 23 November 1996 (age 25) |
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Country | Ireland |
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Sport | Rowing |
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Event(s) | Lightweight double sculls |
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Career
McCarthy is from Skibbereen, County Cork. He experienced in rowing while in primary school, but only started taking the sport seriously when he was 15 after seeing the London Olympics in 2012.[1][2] He studied at University College Cork and graduated with a degree in physiology.[1]
McCarthy won his first national title in rowing with his brother Jake in 2016.[2] The brothers qualified for the European Rowing Championships final in 2019.[3]
In 2019, he was partnered with Paul O'Donovan in the men's lightweight double sculls at the World Rowing Championships held at Linz-Ottensheim in Austria, where they won the gold medal and the world championship title.[4][5] In 2020, he won a bronze in the men's lightweight single sculls at the 2020 European Rowing Championships held in Poznan, Poland.
McCarthy raced with O'Donovan at the 2021 European Rowing Championships, where they won gold.[6] The following month they won gold again at the World Rowing Cup II regatta in Lucerne.[7] At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in July 2021, the pair set a world's best time of 6:05:33 while winning their semifinal of the lightweight double sculls event.[8] They went on to win the gold medal, finishing ahead of the German and Italian teams.[9][10]
References
External links
 Olympic champions – Men's lightweight double sculls |
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World champions – Lightweight men's double sculls |
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FISA championships |
- 1978:
(Pål Børnick, Arne Gilje)
- 1979:
(Arne Gilje, Pål Børnick)
- 1980:
(Francesco Esposito, Ruggero Verroca)
- 1981:
(Francesco Esposito, Ruggero Verroca)
- 1982:
(Francesco Esposito, Ruggero Verroca)
- 1983:
(Francesco Esposito, Ruggero Verroca)
- 1984:
(Francesco Esposito, Ruggero Verroca)
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Official world championships |
- 1985:
(Luc Crispon, Thierry Renault)
- 1986:
(Luc Crispon, Thierry Renault)
- 1987:
(Enrico Gandola, Giovanni Calabrese)
- 1988:
(Enrico Gandola, Francesco Esposito)
- 1989:
(Christoph Schmölzer, Walter Rantasa)
- 1990:
(Robert Dreher, Stephen Peterson)
- 1991:
(Michael Buchheit, Kai von Warburg)
- 1992:
(Gary Lynagh, Bruce Hick)
- 1993:
(Bruce Hick, Gary Lynagh)
- 1994:
(Michelangelo Crispi, Francesco Esposito)
- 1995:
(Markus Gier, Michael Gier)
- 1997:
(Tomasz Kucharski, Robert Sycz)
- 1998:
(Tomasz Kucharski, Robert Sycz)
- 1999:
(Michelangelo Crispi, Leonardo Pettinari)
- 2001:
(Elia Luini, Leonardo Pettinari)
- 2002:
(Elia Luini, Leonardo Pettinari)
- 2003:
(Elia Luini, Leonardo Pettinari)
- 2005:
(Zsolt Hirling, Tamás Varga)
- 2006:
(Mads Rasmussen, Rasmus Quist Hansen)
- 2007:
(Mads Rasmussen, Rasmus Quist Hansen)
- 2009:
(Storm Uru, Peter Taylor)
- 2010:
(Zac Purchase, Mark Hunter)
- 2011:
(Zac Purchase, Mark Hunter)
- 2013:
(Kristoffer Brun, Are Strandli)
- 2014:
(James Thompson, John Smith)
- 2015:
(Stany Delayre, Jérémie Azou)
- 2017:
(Pierre Houin, Jérémie Azou)
- 2018:
(Gary O'Donovan, Paul O'Donovan)
- 2019:
(Fintan McCarthy, Paul O'Donovan)
- 2022:
(Fintan McCarthy, Paul O'Donovan)
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Fintan McCarthy, né le 23 novembre 1996 à Skibbereen dans le Comté de Cork, est un rameur irlandais, champion du monde en 2019 avec Paul O'Donovan dans la spécialité du deux de couple poids légers masculin et médaillé d'or olympique en 2021 aux Jeux de Tokyo.
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