EVE MCMAHON
Age: 20
World Ranking: 12th (best to date)
Olympic Ranking: 12th
Hometown: Howth, Dublin
Club: Howth YC
Coach: Rory Fitzpatrick
When she was younger, Eve followed in the footsteps of her two older brothers (Ewan and Jamie) and started summer sailing courses in Howth YC at the age of just 7. Although new enough to the senior circuit she started training alongside senior athletes long before this Olympic cycle. She worked as both Anne-Marie Rindom’s DEN (Tokyo Olympic Gold medallist) and Annalise Murphy’s IRL, official training partner for the Tokyo Olympic cycle.
So, it is no surprise that after finishing her time in the youth fleet with a Triple Crown, McMahon then went on to qualify Ireland in the ILCA 6 fleet for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. McMahon would like to be the most successful Irish female, ILCA 6 sailor ever and be a figurehead for women in sport, especially sailing.
- Paris 2024 Team Ireland Olympian
- 2023 U21 ILCA 6 World Champion
- 2022 Youth ILCA 6 World Sailing Champion
- 2022 Youth ILCA 6 European Championship
- 2021 ILCA 6 Youth World Championship
- 2021 U19 Silver Medallist European Championships
- Afloat Irish Sailor of the Year 2019, 2020 and 2021, 2022 and 2023
Eve was also awarded Afloat’s Sailor of the Year 2023 as well as UCD’s Sportsperson of the Year and was nominated for RTE’s Young Sportsperson of the Year. She is from from Howth Co. Dublin, and on being selected for the Irish Olympic Team she is one of Team Ireland’s Paris Scholars studying International Commerce at UCD.
Eve additionally had the unique opportunity to carry the Olympic Flame on the initial stages of its journey landing in Marseille, France, where she will be competing this summer, on its route to the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Eve McMahon's 2021 sailing achievements
- Irish Sailor of the Year 2021
- Gold Medallist Youth World Championships Italy Highest Ranked Irish Female
- Star Sailors league Silver medal at the Youth European Championships Croatia Gold medallist U19,
- Silver medallist U21 Senior European Championships Bulgaria Race win Senior European Championships Bulgaria
- Selected Paris 2024 Olympic Solidarity Scholarship Sport Ireland
- 15th Senior European Championships Bulgaria, 1st Irish Female, securing Sport Ireland Carding.
- Youth ISAF World Representative Oman, equivalent to Youth Olympic in sailing,
- 4th overall Guinness World Record Participant Beach Clean up -
- Oman Gold medallist U19 Allianz World Cup Netherlands
- Gold medallist U23 Lanzarote International Regatta 4th
- U21 European Championships Montenegro
- Nominated for Irish Sailor of The Year
- Bronze medallist Connaught's Wexford
- 9th Silver Fleet European Continental Qualification
- 5th Pre-Qualifciation regatta Lanzarote
