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
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.
Rowing trials in Newry
The best young rowers in Ireland will be in Newry this weekend trying to impress and pushing for an opportunity to row for Ireland in this pre-Olympic year.
Rowers benefit from National Centre
Rowing Ireland’s international programme was on view to the OCI this week.
World Rowing U23 Championships
The World Rowing U23 Championships in Belarus brought reward after year’s hard work to four athletes and their coaches. The crew of Justin Ryan (Skibbereen RC), Mark O Donovan (Skibbereen RC), Michael Maher (Commercial RC) and Niall Kenny (NUIG BC) (pictured left to right) finished just one second behind Germany, …
Casey fails to qualify
Sean Casey , Irish Rowing's sole representative at the World Rowing Championship finished third in the men's single scull repechage missing out on a chance to compete in the A or B finals. The race was won by Ondrej Synek (Czech Republic) with Ariel Suarez (Argentina) came second with Sean Casey a clear third well ahead of Jueri Jaanson (Estonia). Synek and Suarez now go through to the semi-finals.
McElroy appointed to Irish Rowing
Martin McElroy who guided the British men's eight to Olympic gold in Sydney in 2000, has been appointed as the new performance director for Irish rowing, it has been announced.
Lightweight Men's 4 qualify for Beijing,
Ireland's Lightweight Men's Four finished 2nd , behind winners Germany, this morning , therefore qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.They will join the Men's Heavyweight Four who have already qualified for Beijing.
London 2012