Big Ireland Team Named for World Rowing Championships

12th August 2015

#Rowing: Fifteen athletes have been selected on the Rowing Ireland team which will compete at the World Championships in Aiguebelette, France, from 30^th August – 6^th September. This is the first opportunity for crews to qualify their Olympic boats for Rio 2016. There is also a paralympic athlete, Karol Doherty of City of Derry.

The Ireland team is:

Women

Women’s single sculls; Sanita Puspure (Old Collegians BC)
Lightweight women’s single sculls; Denise Walsh (Skibbereen RC)
Women’s double sculls; Lisa Dilleen (Grainne Mhaol RC) & Helen Hannigan (Three Castles RC)
Lightweight women’s double sculls; Sinead Jennings (St. Michaels RC) & Claire Lambe (Old Collegians BC)
Women’s four; Monika Dukarska (Killorglin RC), Leonora Kennedy (Portora BC), Aifric Keogh (UCC RC) & Barbara O’Brien (UCC RC)

Men

Lightweight men’s double sculls; Paul O’Donovan (UCD BC) & Gary O’Donovan (Skibbereen RC)
Lightweight men’s pair; Shane O’Driscoll (Skibbereen RC) & Mark O’Donovan (Old Collegians BC)
Arms and shoulders men’s single sculls ; Karol Doherty (City of Derry BC)

Coaches

Don McLachlan, Lead Coach and coach of women’s single sculls, lightweight women’s double & lightweight women’s single sculls
Giuseppe De Capua, Coach of women’s double sculls
Dominic Casey, Coach of lightweight men’s double sculls
Sean Casey, Coach of lightweight men’s pair & women’s four
Declan Doherty, Para Coach of Arms and Shoulders men’s single sculls

Staff

Morten Espersen, HPD & Team manager
Andrew Coleman, Assistant Team manager & Towing Vehicle

Sarah Jane McDonnell, Physiotherapist

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Liam Gorman is a writer and reporter. He is the co-author of Little Lady, One Man, Big Ocean, published in the United States and Canada as Crossing the Swell. He is the rowing correspondent of the Irish Times.

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