Rowing Ireland
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| Sport | Rowing |
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| Founded | 1899 |
| Affiliation | FISA |
| Headquarters | National Rowing Centre, Cork |
| President | Con Cronin |
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Rowing Ireland, formerly the Irish Amateur Rowing Union, is the governing body of rowing for Ireland. It is a cross-border organisation administering the sport in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Rowing Ireland is a member of the Olympic Council of Ireland and the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Aviron (FISA).
Eighty clubs are affiliated to Rowing Ireland. These are from every part of the island and include schools, third level institutions and open clubs. The Irish Coastal Rowing Federation was affiliated to Rowing Ireland. but in February 2017 Rowing Ireland discontinued the ICRF's affiliation.
The National Rowing Centre (NRC) in Farran Wood, Cork is the headquarters of Rowing Ireland and is also the base of the High Performance team. The Centre has an eight-lane Albano course and hosts a number of regattas and the Championship Regatta each year. Every four years it hosts the Home International Regatta. In 1999 and 2008 it hosted the Coupe de la Jeunesse and it is scheduled to host it again in 2018.
Established in 1899 as the Irish Amateur Rowing Union, the association hosted its first championship in 1912. At the 1912 AGM, which was held in February, it was agreed that a cup be purchased for £100 for the Union to be presented for annual competition amongst senior eights. This would in time become known as "The Big Pot". The inaugural Senior eights championship took place at Metropolitan Regatta in Ringsend on the Lower Liffey in July 1912 and City of Derry Boating Club were the winners. It would be 1934 before the Junior (Intermediate) eights championship was added. Since then many additional championships have been added and 44 are now contested each year at the Championship Regatta.
Ireland has won six gold, nine silver and eight bronze medals at the World Championships. The Gold winners were:
2016 Gary O'Donovan and Paul O'Donovan were European Champions in the lightweight men’s double sculls.
2017 in Racice, Czech Republic, Shane O’Driscoll and Mark O’Donovan were European Champions in the lightweight men’s pair. Gary and Paul O’Donovan won silver in the lightweight men’s double sculls and Denise Walsh won silver in the lightweight women’s single sculls. All the Irish medal-winners were from the Skibbereen Rowing Club, County Cork.
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