Paul O'Donovan is an Irish lightweight rower born in 1994 and a double Olympic champion in the lightweight double sculls, an event in which he set a world's best time. He is a seven-time world champion in single and double sculls, first winning the lightweight single sculls at the 2016 World Rowing Championships. With his brother Gary he took silver at the 2016 Olympics, and from 2019 he partnered Fintan McCarthy, winning gold at the Tokyo and Paris Games. A poll during the 2024 Olympics voted him Ireland's greatest-ever Olympian, and in December 2024 he was named RTE Sportsperson of the Year.
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He is a double Olympic champion in the lightweight double sculls, where he set a world's best time for that event, and a seven-time world champion in single and double sculls.
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