New leadership for Irish Rowing

Rowing Ireland have chosen Morten Espersen to be their new High Performance Director.

The 61-year-old served as HPD in Denmark from 1993 to 2001 and went on to chair Denmark’s executive board for elite rowing.

Denmark has had great success in the last two decades: their premier crew, the lightweight four, took three gold and two bronze medals in the last five Olympic Games, while the lightweight double scull took gold at London 2012.

Fie Udby Erichsen also took a silver medal in the women’s single sculls in London. 

Espersen will take up his post in February. He will be based at the National Rowing Centre in Cork. He succeeds Martin McElroy, who has recently been appointed Performance Director for men’s rowing in