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Irish Times
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Ireland's Eve McMahon secures historic bronze medal at World Championships in China
In a historic first for Irish sailing, Howth Yacht Club's Eve McMahon won a bronze medal at the ILCA World Championships during the final day of action in Qingdao, China. McMahon finished third behind France's Louise Cervera, with Poland's Agata Barwinska in second. It is the first time an Irish female sailor has medalled at senior World Championships and a huge achievement for the 22-year-old who already has two back-to-back Under-21 World Championships to her name. The result marks a big step up step-change for the Irish sailor who competed in her first Olympics last summer in Paris after just two years at senior level. In the six races sailed in China, McMahon recorded results within the top six places in the 99-boat event, while also avoiding any penalties. READ MORE 'We were struggling in the last few events but we've worked really hard to fix that before coming to China,' commented Irish Sailing coach Vasilij Zbogar. 'We spent time in Lymington training in [tidal] current with the British team and that really helped us fight for a medal – and get a medal.' 'It was a really difficult day with very strong winds but Eve made three solid races,' said Zbogar, who won silver for Slovenia at this venue in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 'She is sailing really well and we're looking forward to the days and months of competition ahead.'
RTÉ News
17-05-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Eve McMahon claims historic sailing bronze at World Championships
Irish sailor Eve McMahon claimed the bronze medal at the ILCA World Championships on Saturday after an epic final day in Qingdao, China. McMahon finished third in the women's ILCA 6 event behind Poland's Agata Barwinska and Frenchwoman Louise Cervera. It's the first time an Irish female sailor has medalled at a senior World Championships. It's also another massive feather in the cap for 22-year-old McMahon who also has two Under-21 World Championships to her name. Paris Games Olympian McMahon never fell outside the top six places in the 99-boat event in any of the six races sailed. She also avoided any penalties. "It's a pretty amazing feeling," McMahon said afterwards. "It's all kind of just set in now. I always kind of had a feeling that it close, I never knew exactly the points or anything like that. "My coach came up to me just as the five-minute gun went and said I needed to be top five in this race, then he drove off! So I was like, 'oh my God there's obviously a chance for a medal here'." In the ILCA 7 men's event, Carlow's Finn Lynch bounced back from a slow start on Friday with three top-six results including second place in the final race. That moved him back up the leaderboard to end 15th overall. Team-mate Ewan McMahon - Eve's brother - counted a ninth and a tenth in the 138-boat event to finish 19th overall and just four points behind Lynch. Meanwhile, on her first senior level world championship, Sienna Wright ended in a mid-fleet position, though a ninth place in her opening race on Friday plus several top-20 results are indicators of her growing form.
