Three Ireland Finalists for World Rowing Awards 2019

15th October 2019

Ronan Byrne after winning his European Under-23 gold

#Rowing: Ireland figure strongly in the finalists for the World Rowing Awards 2019. World champions Sanita Puspure, in the single sculls, and the lightweight double of Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy are finalists for women’s and men’s crews of the year. Ronan Byrne (21) is one of four finalists for the Filippi Spirit Award for outstanding university rower. Byrne won gold in the single sculls at the European Under-23 Championships just a week after partnering Philip Doyle to silver in the double sculls at the senior World Championships.

The award ceremony is on November 22^nd in London.

Finalists for the 2019 World Rowing Awards

Thomas Keller Medal – for a rower who has had a long and successful rowing career and who has made an outstanding contribution to rowing as a competitor and as a sports personality.

· Kim Brennan,Australia
· Ekaterina Karsten,Belarus
· James Cracknell,Great Britain
· Pete Reed,Great Britain
· Andrew Triggs Hodge,Great Britain

Filippi Spirit Award – for a university rower who has demonstrated the core values of rowing in his/her social, academic and sporting life and, through these values, also enabled or inspired exceptional success in other people's lives.

· Ria Thompson,Australia
· Jean Maillard,France
· Ronan Byrne,Ireland
· Nicholas Perovich,United States

World Rowing Sustainability Award – for an organisation that has implemented an innovative project or initiative delivering a clear and positive sustainability impact.

· Spring Creek Regeneration Project,Australia
· 2018 World Rowing Coastal Championships,Canada
· Wintech: Clean air, water and solar power,China
· Rowers Against Rubbish,Great Britain
· Developing Environmental Ambassadors,Japan

World Rowing Para-rowing Crew of the Year

· Kathryn Ross,Australia,Para PR2 Women’s Single Sculls
· Ellen Buttrick, Giedre Rakauskaite, James Fox, Oliver Stanhope and Erin Wysocki-Jones (coxswain),Great Britain,Para PR3 Mixed Coxed Four
· Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley,Great Britain,Para PR2 Mixed Double Sculls
· Birgit Skarstein,Norway,Para PR1 Women’s Single Sculls
· Roman Polianskyi,Ukraine,Para PR1 Men’s Single Sculls

World Rowing Men’s Crew of the Year

· Zhiyu Liu and Liang Zhang,China,Men’s Double Sculls
· Valent Sinkovic and Martin Sinkovic,Croatia,Men’s Pair
· Oliver Zeidler,Germany,Men’s Single Sculls
· Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy,Ireland,Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls
· Dirk Uittenbogaard, Abe Wiersma, Tone Wieten and Koen Metsmakers,The Netherlands,Men’s Quadruple Sculls

World Rowing Women’s Crew of the Year

· Olympia Aldersey, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe and Lucy Stephan,Australia,Women’s Four
· Yunxia Chen, Ling Zhang, Yang Lyu, Xiaotong Cui,China,Women’s Quadruple Sculls
· Sanita Puspure,Ireland,Women’s Single Sculls
· Zoe McBride and Jackie Kiddle,New Zealand,Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls
· Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler,New Zealand,Women’s Pair

World Rowing Coach of the Year

· Bernd Nennhaus,Germany,junior rowing crews
· Tom Dyson,Great Britain,Para-rowing coach
· Eelco Meenhorst,Netherlands,men’s sculling head coach
· Gary Hay,New Zealand,women’s head coach
· Johan Flodin,Norway,head coach

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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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