{"id":609349,"date":"2026-08-30T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609349\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:30:12","slug":"medals-for-ireland-as-fiona-murtagh-mags-cremen-and-konan-pazzaia-win-silvers-at-world-rowing-championships-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/609349\/","title":{"rendered":"Medals for Ireland as Fiona Murtagh, Mags Cremen and Konan Pazzaia win silvers at World Rowing Championships \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland won two silver medals at the World Rowing Championships on Sunday, with Fiona Murtagh<\/a> finishing second in the A final of the women\u2019s single sculls before Konan Pazzaia and Mags Cremen<\/a> matched the feat in the mixed double sculls.<\/p>\n

On the final day of the championships in Amsterdam, Pazzaia and Cremen were first on the water for their semi-final, finishing third in the second race to qualify for the afternoon\u2019s A final.<\/p>\n

The Dutch pair of Roos De Jong and Simon Van Dorp sealed gold in convincing style, crossing the line in 6:15.80, 6.54 seconds clear of Pazzaia and Cremen in second. Bronze went to Sophia Vitas and Cedar Cunningham of the USA.<\/p>\n

The result added to Cremen\u2019s medal haul from the championships, having already won gold alongside Zoe Hyde<\/a> in the women\u2019s double sculls on Friday. <\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s single sculls, a measured start from Murtagh had her at the back of the pack for the early stages before gradually upping the tempo to sit fourth by the midway point.<\/p>\n

Switzerland\u2019s Karoliek Florijn set the early pace, holding the lead until Britain\u2019s Lauren Henry launched her attack to the finish. Henry took the lead and built up a two-seconds gap to Florijn with 500m to go, at which point reigning-world-champion Murtagh made her move.<\/p>\n

The strong late push saw the Galway woman edge past the Swiss athlete in the closing stretch for the silver medal. Henry was the comfortable winner in 7:15.93, 2.11 seconds ahead of Murtagh, with Florijn taking bronze.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy with it,\u201d Murtagh said of her performance. \u201cI\u2019m really proud of how I\u2019ve kind of grown throughout this competition. Prep was really hard, camp was tough, I spent a good three or four weeks on the bike and I didn\u2019t see a lot of the boat at all from after Lucerne [Rowing World Cup event in June] until the second week of camp, so mentally that played a lot. I tried to downplay it quite a bit, but it\u2019s been really hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to be resilient and, regardless of the challenges that I kind of face, that I could kind of grow from them and that anything that swings my way that I can take it on the chin and I can still lay down a performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll look back on this race, was it ideal, no, but I really liked the last 750. I love how I moved through in the final sprint, I\u2019m really proud of that. So more things to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fintan McCarthy<\/a> was also in action, finishing fifth in the B final of the men\u2019s single sculls after missing out on the A final with his fourth-place finish in Saturday\u2019s semi-final. The 29-year-old struggled to make headway on Sunday, briefly fighting his way up to fourth before slipping back to fifth, finishing in 6:46.07 as the win going to Switzerland\u2019s Kai Schaetzle in 6:42.25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland won two silver medals at the World Rowing Championships on Sunday, with Fiona Murtagh finishing second in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28139,222849,61,60,258163,43],"class_list":["post-609349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fintan-mccarthy","tag-fiona-murtagh","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-margaret-cremen","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}