Rowing
Introduction to Rowing
A sport involving 14 different classes of boat and between one and eight rowers. Rowing requires athletes with incredible upper body strength and a commitment to the sport from an early age in order to develop the correct physical shape and muscle definition. For contact details of Irish Amateur Rowing Union please click on Full story
European Rowing Team Selected
John Keohane has been selected on to the Ireland team for the European Championships. The Lee Valley man was the fastest man home in the Irish trials on Saturday and will compete for Ireland in Seville in four weeks’ time. Sanita Puspure is selected in the women’s single scull; Claire Lambe in …
Esperson casts net wider
Morten Espersen Irish Rowing High Performance Director will attend this weekend’s Irish trials at the National Rowing Centre. Esperson’s is keen to widen the base of the sport and building international crews with an eye to Rio 2016. More than 120 junior athletes will trial this weekend with hopes of places from …
Irish Rowing CEO appointed
Hamish Adams has been announced as the new Chief Executive Officer of Rowing Ireland. He takes over from Acting CEO Frank Coghlan and will be based in the National Rowing Centre at Farran Woods, Cork. Adams moves from his current role with the Irish Rugby Union Players Association (IRUPA) in …
Puspure’s World Final
Sanita Puspure who recently qualified for London 2012 finished sixth in yesterday’s single sculls A final in Munich. She recovered after a poor start, but not enough to figure in the business end of a race won by double Olympic champion Ekaterina Karsten. “I got a bit left at the …
Puspure boost for Irish Rowing
Sanita Puspure gave Irish rowing a terrific boost when she finished fourth in the single sculls final at the Olympic qualifier in Lucerne in Switzerland and gave Ireland a rowing presence at London 2012. “I still can’t believe I did it,” Puspure (30) said as she came off the water. …
Rower’s final push in Lucerne
Ireland’s men’s lightweight double scull and single sculler Sanita Puspure go into the Olympic Qualification Regatta, which starts on Sunday in Lucerne, with qualification for London in mind and/or preparation for the next Olympic cycle in Rio 2016. The double of Mark O’Donovan and Niall Kenny, who are both 23, know …
Lambe and McCrohan withdrawn
The lightweight women’s double of Claire Lambe and Siobhán McCrohan who were due to compete in an international regatta in Piediluco in Italy today have been withdrawn. “There is a consistent weight management issue in this crew,” said Ireland performance director Martin McElroy. The crew struggled last year as McCrohan found …
Irish rowers in semi final
Ireland’s women’s double scull of Lisa Dilleen and Sanita Puspure qualified for the semi-finals of the World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia this afternoon. In today’s repechage, they finished in second qualification spot, behind the United States. If Dilleen and Puspure finish in the top eight at the Championships come Saturday’s …
Rowers compete on Olympic course
Martin McElroy's choice of spending time at the Olympic Rowing course will help inspire his crews.
London 2012