Paul O'Donovan
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Paul O'Donovan (born 19 April 1994) is an Irish lightweight rower. He is an Olympic gold medallist in lightweight double sculls where he set a new world's best time for that event and is a five-time world champion in single and double sculls.[2]
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Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1994-04-19) 19 April 1994 (age 30) Lisheen, County Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Lightweight double sculls Lightweight single sculls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | Gold medal (Lightweight double sculls, Tokyo 2020) Silver medal (Lightweight double sculls, Rio de Janeiro 2016)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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O'Donovan first won a world championship in the men's lightweight single sculls at the 2016 World Rowing Championships.[3] Together with his brother Gary, he won silver in the Men's lightweight double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[4][5] and gold in the same discipline at the 2018 World Rowing Championships.[6] Since 2019, he also partnered with Fintan McCarthy for lightweight double sculls events, and the pair became world champions at the 2019 World Rowing Championships,[7] gold medalists at the 2021 European Rowing Championships,[8] and gold medalists (and world record holders) at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[9]
At the 2024 Irish Indoor Rowing Championships, he set a national record on the 2000m ergometer and became the third lightweight man to break six-minutes with a time of 5:58.4.[10][11]