Eve McMahon Leads at ILCA 6 U21 European Championships in Mallorca

19th March 2024

Howth's Eve McMahon in winning form on the opening day of the ILCA 6 U21 European Championships in Mallorca

Howth's Eve McMahon in winning form in the opening day of the ILCA 6 U21 European Championships in Mallorca Credit: Thom Touw

Ireland's Paris 2024 representative in the ILCA 6 class, Eve McMahon, is leading the 2024 Women's U21 European Championships after three races sailed in Spain.

The Howth Yacht Club ace is the top boat in the 65-boat fleet at the Reial Club Nautic Port de Pollensa in Mallorca, Spain.

The day commenced with a one-hour postponement on shore due to a lack of wind. Eventually, the first warning signal was sounded at noon, with steady winds ranging between 10-14 knots from a direction of 65 degrees.

Reigning ILCA 6 Women’s Under-21 World champion McMahon counts two race wins in her tally to be seven points clear of Spain's Marga Perello on 15 points. Poland's Lilly May Niezabitowska is one point behind Perello in third place.

Emma Mattivi from Italy (3-4) recently finished fifth overall at her first Senior Europeans in Athens and is here defending the U21 European title after winning the 2023 edition in Norway.

Italian sailor Maria Vitoria Arseni, recently crowned World champion at the 2024 ILCA 6 Youth Worlds in Argentina, is eighth.

Two more races are scheduled for Wednesday, with the first warning signal at 12:00.

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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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