The 30-year-old Skibbereen rower remains focused on the lightweight doubles for Paris
Ireland’s Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan after winning gold at the World Rowing Championships 2023. Photograph: Detlev Seyb/Inpho
For the past eight years now he’s been the best lightweight rower in the world, winning 13 championship medals, including 10 gold, between the single and double sculls. But with the lightweight crews no longer part of the Olympic programme after this summer’s Paris Games, he’s already looking towards the heavyweights.
For O’Donovan then it’s essentially about race practice, but he’ll get a good idea of where he currently stands in the singles. The top-quality field includes reigning world champion Oliver Zeidler from Germany, Greece’s Olympic champion Stefanos Ntouskos, and Tokyo bronze medallist Damir Martin from Croatia.
A total of 26 nations have entered crews in Szeged, McCarthy’s withdrawal meaning only five Irish crews will race: O’Donovan in the men’s single; the women’s double of Alison Bergin and Zoe Hyde ; Margaret Cremen in the lightweight women’s single; and Jake McCarthy, twin brother of Fintan, in the lightweight men’s single. Steven McGowan will also race the para men’s singles, after already qualifying in the PR2 mixed double sculls for the Paris Paralympics.
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