Laser Sharp Eve McMahon Returns Home to Hero's Welcome

1st August 2022

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ILCA Women’s Youth Words Podium at the ILCA Youth Worlds with Ireland's Eve McMahon in gold medal position. This is McMahon’s third gold medal this summer after winning the ILCA 6 Youth European Championships in Greece and the Youth Sailing World Championships in the Netherlands. She finished the event with only 13 net points. Second place went to Germany’s Linda Hensel with 26 net points, who finished eighth in the first race of the day followed by two seconds. Tea Peteh of Croatia secured bronze with a 13th, third, and first in yesterday’s races. The leaderboard of the women’s division was maintained all week by these three women and they all were able to sail consistently enough to bring it home Credit: Eric Andresen

ILCA 6 Laser youth world champion Eve McMahon returns to a Dublin Airport homecoming this morning after a stellar performance on the world stage.

The teen sensation from Howth Yacht Club retained gold in the single-handed ILCA6 class at the 2022 ILCA 6 Youth World Championships in Houston, Texas.

As Afloat reported previously, The Irish Sailor of the Year's gold medal win in Texas is her third consecutive gold medal this year, having also picked up a gold medal at the World Sailing Youth World Championships in the Hague and at the ILCA 6 Youth European Championships in Greece.

Eve McMahon - The 18-year-old sailor from Howth set a pre-season goal of 'three from three' title wins and also managed to sit her Leaving Certificate school exams. In 30 races across all three events, McMahon finished in the top three places in all but five races, averaging around third place as an indication of impressive consistency. Photo: Eric Andresen/ILCA

The 18-year-old Dublin sailor, who is fully embarked on her campaign for Paris 2024 after completing her Leaving Certificate, will be interviewed by the media in-person as she returns to Dublin Airport this morning (August 1^st, 2022) at approximately 10 am.

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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

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