{"id":33032,"date":"2025-09-28T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/?p=33032"},"modified":"2025-09-28T12:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:00:39","slug":"golden-day-for-rowing-ireland-at-the-2025-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/golden-day-for-rowing-ireland-at-the-2025-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Day for Rowing Ireland at the 2025 World Championships\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rowing Ireland celebrated a historic final day at the 2025 World Rowing Championships in Shanghai, claiming two gold medals in thrilling style. Fiona Murtagh stormed to victory in the Women\u2019s Single Sculls, while just two races later Mags Cremen and Fintan McCarthy added a second gold in the Mixed Double Sculls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>W1x | Fiona Murtagh<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fiona Murtagh delivered a sensational performance to win gold in the Women\u2019s Single Sculls. Leading from the early stages, she maintained a two-second advantage over the field for much of the race. In a dramatic finish, Great Britain\u2019s Lauren Henry mounted a late challenge, but a photo finish confirmed Fiona as World Champion in a time of 07:12.27 \u2014 just 0.03 seconds ahead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mix2x | Mags Cremen &amp; Fintan McCarthy<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fintan McCarthy and Mags Cremen added a second gold for Ireland in the Mixed Double Sculls. After winning their heat earlier in the day, the pair produced a powerful performance in the final. They seized the lead at the halfway mark and held off a strong challenge from the Netherlands to claim victory in 06:24.22. Mags and Fintan are the first ever World Champions in this event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary of the 2025 World Championship Results<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>W1x | Fiona Murtagh \u2013 Gold\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mix2x | Mags Cremen &amp; Fintan McCarthy &#8211; Gold\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>LM1x | Jake McCarthy \u2013 Bronze\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>M2x | Fintan McCarthy &amp; Philip Doyle \u2013 Bronze\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>M2- | Nathan Timoney &amp; Ross Corrigan &#8211; 6th\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>LW1x | Siobh\u00e1n McCrohan \u2013 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>W2x | Mags Cremen &amp; Zoe Hyde \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup> (B Final)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PR2 Mix2x | Tiarn\u00e1n O\u2019Donnell &amp; Sadhbh N\u00ed Laoighre \u2013 3<sup>rd<\/sup> (B Final)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>W4- | Natalie Long, Emma Water, Aisling Hayes &amp; Imogen Magner \u2013 3<sup>rd<\/sup> (B Final)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>M4x | Andrew Sheehan, Adam Murphy, Brian Colsh &amp; Ronan Byrne \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup> (C Final)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>M1x | Konan Pazzaia \u2013 2<sup>nd<\/sup> (C Final)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>W2- | Emily Hegarty &amp; Aoife Casey \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup> (C Final)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d3fpn4c9813ycf.cloudfront.net\/pdfDocuments\/WCH_2025_1\/WCH_2025_1_ROW-------------------DAY-002800--_C74A_20250928X1605.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Sunday Results Summary<\/mark><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Updated-2025-World-Rowing-Championships-Shanghai-Media-Guide-5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media Guide<\/a>\u00a0<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominic Casey, Rowing Ireland High Performance Lead Coach, said:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe 2025 World Rowing Championships in Shanghai have been very rewarding for our athletes, coaches and support staff. Our team delivered strong performances showing real promise with lots of new crew combinations. Congratulations to all our team, our medalists, to all our crews who performed so well in A, B and C finals, our coaches, and all our support staff. It was an excellent team performance particularly as many of our athletes were balancing training alongside college and work commitments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are determined to build on these results over the next three years as we prepare for the 2028 Olympics. We have a fantastic team overall. I would like to say thanks to Sport Ireland and the Sport Institute for their help and support throughout the year, it is a huge help to our team. Well done to all.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowing Ireland congratulates all our athletes on their outstanding performances throughout the Championships. From world titles to breakthrough results, every crew demonstrated resilience, teamwork, and dedication on the international stage. We also extend a special thanks to the High-Performance coaching team and support staff, whose expertise and commitment have been central to this success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to our sponsors for their continued support. Your commitment is vital in enabling&nbsp;our athletes to&nbsp;compete on the world stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowing Ireland celebrated a historic final day at the 2025 World Rowing Championships in Shanghai, claiming two gold medals in thrilling style. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":33035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-33032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-high-performance","tag-world-championships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowingireland.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}