Nationality Irish Weight 74 kg Siblings Gary O'Donovan | Height 1.77 m | |
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Event(s) Lightweight double sculls Coached by Teddy O'DonovanDominic Casey Olympic finals Silver Medal (Lightweight double sculls, Rio 2016) Parents Teddy O’Donovan, Trish O’Donovan Similar Gary O'Donovan, Annalise Murphy, Jérémie Azou, Graham Norton, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa | ||
Paul o donovan world rowing champion
Paul O'Donovan (born 19 April 1994) is an Irish rower. Together with his brother Gary, he won silver in the Men's lightweight double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He then became world champion in the men's lightweight single sculls at the 2016 World Rowing Championships.
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- Paul o donovan world rowing champion
- Paul o donovan nissangenerationnext
- Early life
- Rowing career
- 2016
- References
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Early life
Paul O'Donovan was born on 19 April 1994 in Lisheen near Skibbereen, County Cork to Teddy and Trish O'Donovan. Like his elder brother Gary, he attended Lisheen National School and St Fachtna's De La Salle secondary school in Skibbereen. He is attending University College Dublin where he studies physiotherapy part-time.
O'Donovan was introduced to rowing in 2001 aged around seven when his father took the two brothers to Skibbereen Rowing Club. His father, himself a rower, coached them in the sport and remained a coach to O'Donovan until 2013.
Rowing career
In 2008, the O'Donovan brothers were selected for the Irish junior team at the Home International Regatta held in Cardiff, Wales, and won gold in the junior quad sculls. Paul O'Donovan also competed in the single sculls; he became the junior single sculls champion of Ireland when he was 15, and was placed fourth in the 2011 World Junior Championships. When he was 19, he won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight sculls at the World Rowing U23 Championships held in Linz, Austria.
2016
In April 2016. Paul and Gary O'Donovan won silver in the lightweight double sculls at the first World Rowing Cup events of the year in Varese, Italy. In the following month in May 2016, the pair won the 2016 European Rowing Championships gold medal in Brandenburg, Germany.
The O'Donovan brothers had narrowly qualified for the Rio Olympics by beating Greece at the 2015 World Championship. In August 2016 at the Rio Olympics, the O'Donovan brothers won silver behind France in the lightweight double sculls, the first rowing medal won by Ireland at the Olympics.
Two weeks later, he won the lightweight single sculls final at the World Rowing Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands.