Ireland is to send its largest-ever team to a major international Rowing event at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade from September 3rd to 10th.
Rowing Ireland High-Performance Director, Antonio Maurogiovanni, has announced the selection of 12 crews that will compete at this year’s event.
These championships act as the first opportunity for the Irish rowers to secure Olympic qualification spots for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
After this event, the last chance for Paris 2024 qualification will be next May at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne. At the 2019 World Championships, Rowing Ireland qualified four boats for the Tokyo Olympics followed by two more at the final qualification event.
28 athletes will be racing in just two weeks’ time, the largest number of Irish athletes to compete at a World Rowing Championships for Ireland, with 26 of them being in Olympic class events.
Reigning Olympic Champions Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy will reunite in the Lightweight Men’s Double.
Three of our four Bronze medallists from Tokyo are also travelling. Fiona Murtagh and Aifric Keogh are in the Women’s Pair while Eimear Lambe is joined by Sanita Puspure, Imogen Magber and Natalie Long in the Women’s Four.
Aife Casey and Margaret Cremen are in the Lightweight Women’s Double and there ia a Para Mixed Double team of Katie O’Brien and Steven McGowan, both from Galway Rowing Club.
The action gets underway on Serbia from the 3rd September and we will track the performance of the team right here.
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