Fintan McCarthy
Fintan McCarthy (born 23 November 1996) is an Irish lightweight rower. He is an Irish national champion and a world and Olympic champion. He won the men's lightweight double sculls championship title with Paul O'Donovan at the 2019 World Rowing Championships and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics where he set a new world's best time for that event. He also won a bronze medal in lightweight single sculls at the 2020 European Rowing Championships. Career McCarthy is from Skibbereen, County Cork. His first experience in rowing was while in primary school, but only started taking the sport seriously when he was 15 after seeing the London Olympics in 2012. He studied at University College Cork and graduated with a degree in physiology. McCarthy won his first national title in rowing with his brother Jake in 2016. The brothers qualified for the European Rowing Championships final in 2019. In 2019, he was partnered with Paul O'Donovan in the men's lightweight double sculls at the World Rowing Championships held at Linz-Ottensheim in Austria, where they won the gold medal and the world championship title. In 2020, he won a bronze in the men's lightweight single sculls at the 2020 European Rowing Championships