Displaying items by tag: Odhran McNally

26th July 2019

Odhran McNally Takes Fifth in World Under-23 Final

#Canoeing: Odhran McNally took fifth place in the men’s Under-23 K1 sprint final at the Wildwater World Junior and Under-23 Championships in Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina today.

The 22-year-old Irishman finished in 56.54 seconds, just 3.24 seconds behind gold medallist Anze Uranakar of Slovenia.

Wildwater Canoeing Under-23 World Championships, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Irish interest)

Men

K1 Sprint Final: 1 A Urankar (Slovenia) 53.30; 5 O McNally (Ireland) 56.54

Published in Canoeing

Tagged under

Seán Waddilove & Odhrán McNally For TU Dublin’s ‘Olympic Hopefuls Road To Tokyo’ Panel Discussion This Thursday

Seán Waddilove (right) with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and 49erFX partner Robert Dickson at Howth Yacht Club in December

Joint Irish Sailor of the Year for 218, Seán Waddilove, will be part of a panel discussion this Thursday afternoon (28 February) with the men and women of elite sport at TU Dublin who are busy preparing for qualification bids for 2020.

The event in St Laurence’s on the new university’s Grangegorman campus will provide a unique insight into the lives of Ireland’s future sports stars and what it takes to realise dreams of representing Ireland at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo next year.

Among the other elite athletes on the Olympic Hopefuls Road to Tokyo campaign panel hosted by RTÉ sports presenter Darren Frehill will be Odhrán McNally, who competes in both wild water and sprint disciplines in his sport of canoeing and represented Ireland at the Wildwater Worlds.

The event marks TU Dublin Sport’s new sponsorship by SISK FCC, who have signed on for a three-year deal for the university’s Elite Sports Scholarship programme.

Published in News Update

Tagged under

About the Melges 15 Dinghy

The Melges 15 was designed by Reichel/Pugh and built by Melges.

The design prioritises stability, comfort, ease of use, and performance.

The Melges 15 is built to be sailed by everyone from friends and couples to families and kids. The design offers performance, comfort, and stability in one sleek package.

The Melges 15’s stable hull shape and ergonomic cockpit make it a suitable layout for adult racing and educational sailing. Easy conversion from a club configuration (non-spinnaker) to a one-design setup, provides more versatility to club programs and options for individual owners.

“The Melges 15 creates a clear pathway for junior sailors to get started and stay excited about sailing while also being comfortable and accessible enough for adults to learn, race, or cross-train,” according to Harry Melges III.

With the main design goals focused on stability and performance in various conditions, the boat features a narrow overall beam and a flat cross-section shape for stability, righting moment, and ease of planing. For a more forgiving feel upwind and to navigate larger sea states, the Melges 15 has just the right amount of fore and aft rocker.

Melges conducted extensive research and product testing to produce this layout factoring in cockpit depth, backbone height, and floor plan. The result, they say, is a comfortable environment for both the skipper and crew. The deeper cockpit takes the load off the sailor’s knees helping them feel locked into the boat while the high boom and gnav vang system work together to make the boat easier to manoeuvre.

The asymmetric spinnaker offers an additional performance element, while the single-pull launch and retrieval system makes handling the sail easy and fast.