Mc CARTHY Fintan

World Championships

Year	Location	L2x	L4x
2019	Linz, AUT	1	-
2018	Plovdiv, BUL	-	5

European Championships

Year	Location	L2x	L1x
2021	Varese, ITA	1	-
2020	Poznan, POL	-	3
2019	Lucerne, SUI	5	-

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Lightweight Double Sculls	2021	Lucerne, SUI	6:15.48
2	Lightweight Double Sculls	2019	Rotterdam, NED	7:01.620

World Championships Under 23

Year	Location	L2x	L4x
2018	Poznan, POL	5	-
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	8	-
2016	Rotterdam, NED	-	5

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, EXC - Excluded

Athlete

Physiology - University College Cork [UCC], Ireland

English

Skibbereen Rowing Club [Cork, IRL]

Dominic Casey [club], IRL; Dave McGowan [national]

His twin brother Jake McCarthy represented Ireland in rowing at the world championships in 2018 and 2019. (SportsDeskOnline, 10 Jan 2020; echolive.ie, 23 Dec 2019)

He first tried rowing at primary school, and decided to pursue the sport seriously in 2012. (The Rowing Ireland Podcast Episode Five, 13 Jul 2020; southernstar.ie, 07 Apr 2020)

He was in and out of the sport growing up. "The one thing I remember when I came back to rowing [in 2012], it was different. You were training with the seniors, and everyone was really encouraging. Before that, like sporting-wise, I had not really been told that I was good at anything. So, when I actually found out that I might be OK at rowing, that's what kind of got me hooked the second time around." (The Rowing Ireland Podcast Episode Five, 13 Jul 2020)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 27 Dec 2019; echolive.ie, 02 Oct 2019)

He trains for up to five hours a day, seven days a week. He divides his training between the Skibbereen Rowing Club and the National Training Centre [NRC] in Cork, Ireland. (irishexaminer.com, 27 Dec 2019)

Winning gold in lightweight double sculls at the 2019 World Championships in Linz, Austria. (echolive.ie, 02 Oct 2019)

Irish mixed martial artist Conor McGregor. (ACCESS Credit Union YouTube channel, 14 Jul 2018)

"Break your task down into manageable steps. Focus on one at a time, rather than becoming overwhelmed by them all at once." (irishexaminer.com, 27 Dec 2019)