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Fintan McCarthy
Personal information
Nationality Irish
Born (1996-11-23) 23 November 1996 (age 27)
Cork, Ireland
Height 1.77 m
Sport
Country Ireland
Sport Rowing
Event(s) Lightweight double sculls
Medal record
Men's rowing
Representing  Ireland
Olympic Games
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Gold 2024 Paris Lwt double sculls
Gold 2020 Tokyo Lwt double sculls
World Championships
Gold 2019 Ottensheim Lwt double sculls
Gold 2022 Račice Lwt double sculls
Gold 2023 Belgrade Lwt double sculls
European Championships
Gold 2021 Varese Lwt double sculls
Gold 2022 Oberschleißheim Lwt double sculls
Bronze 2020 Poznań Lwt single sculls

Fintan McCarthy (born 23 November 1996) is an Irish lightweight rower. He is an Irish national champion, world champion and double Olympic gold medallist. 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 held in Poznan, Poland.

McCarthy raced with O'Donovan at the 2021 European Rowing Championships, where they won gold. The following month they won gold again at the World Rowing Cup II regatta in Lucerne. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in July 2021, the pair set a world's best time of 6:05:33 while winning their semifinal of the lightweight double sculls event. They went on to win the gold medal, finishing ahead of the German and Italian teams.

McCarthy and O'Donovan once again represented Ireland at the 2024 Summer Olympics, claiming their second successive gold medal in the lightweight double sculls.

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