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Irish Times
16 hours ago
- Sport
- Irish Times
Finn Lynch takes bronze medal at Kieler Woche festival in Germany
Olympic sailor Finn Lynch kept up his recent good form when taking the bronze medal in the ILCA 7 class at the Kieler Woche sailing festival in Germany. The 29-year-old from the National Yacht Club in Dún Laoghaire finished the medal race behind Italian sailors Lorenzo Brando Chiavarini and Dimitri Peroni to secure a second podium finish in the Sailing Grand Slam series, having also taken bronze at the Princess Sofia Regatta. Lynch also finished 15th at the World Championships in China and now heads to the USA with Irish team-mate Ewan McMahon (Howth YC) for the LA Sailing Grand Slam. In the 49er class, Olympians Robert Dickson (Howth YC) and Seán Waddilove (Skerries SC) led for much of the medal race before finishing second and taking fifth overall. READ MORE The pair now travel to Poland for Gdynia Sailing Days, a key regatta on the road to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Gdynia will host the 2027 49er World Championships and is a likely Olympic trial venue.
RTÉ News
21 hours ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Finn Lynch claims dinghy bronze at Grand Slam event
Finn Lynch has continued his good form in 2025 by claiming bronze at the latest Grand Slam event in Germany. Lynch (National Yacht Club) entered the ILCA 7 (Dinghy) medal race at Kieler Woche 2025 in third overall and managed a third place finish to retain his podium spot in the final rankings. On Tuesday the Carlow sailor delivered a strong comeback during the final stages of Gold Fleet racing, with results of second, 11th, and a first to secure his place in the top three. This is his second Grand Slam bronze medal of the season, following on from a third at the Princess Sofia Regatta in Palma. In the 49er class, Robert Dickson and Seán Waddilove (Howth Yacht Club & Skerries Sailing Club) produced a superb performance to finish second in their medla race to jump from seventh to fifth in the final standings. Kieler Woche is one of the world's largest sailing festivals, attracting over three million visitors annually. Now part of the Sailing Grand Slam series, it forms a key leg of a high-performance international circuit that includes four elite European regattas and one in the future Olympic sailing venue of Los Angeles 2028.
