Jake McCarthy (rower)
Jake McCarthy (born 23 November 1996) is an Irish rower. He was a bronze medalist in the lightweight single sculls at the 2025 World Rowing Championships. BiographyHe is from Skibbereen, County Cork.[1] McCarthy and twin brother Fintan McCarthy both compete in rowing. A member of Skibbereen Rowing Club, McCarthy won his first national title in rowing with his brother in 2016.[2] The brothers qualified for the European Rowing Championships final in 2019.[3] After missing two years of competition with a back injury,[4] McCarthy returned to racing and alongside Fintan and Jake, took silver in the directors’ challenge men’s quads at the Head of the Charles regatta in Boston, Massachusetts in October 2024.[5] He won a place in the A final of the lightweight men’s single sculls with a second-place finish in his heat at the 2025 European Rowing Championships in Plovdiv in May 2025, placing fourth in the final.[6][7] He won the bronze medal at the 2025 World Rowing Championships in the lightweight single sculls competing in Shanghai, China, in September 2025.[8] References
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