Emily Hegarty
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Nationality | Irish | ||||||||||
Born | Skibbereen, Ireland[1] | 3 August 1998||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||
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Emily Hegarty (born 3 August 1998) is an Irish rower.[2] She competed in the women's coxless four event at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal.[3][4] At the same Olympics, her third cousin Paul O'Donovan also won a gold medal for rowing in the lightweight double sculls.[5][6] Along with her team-mates, she was named as the Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman for July 2021.[7]
References[]
- ^ "Emily Hegarty". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Emily Hegarty". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Rowing - Heat 2 Results". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Tokyo 2020: Irish rowing quartet battle their way to bronze". RTE Sport. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ "Skibbereen Olympic medallists Paul and Emily are related!". Southern Star. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ "Paul O'Donovan tells how Ireland's golden rowers celebrated their win". extra.ie. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ "Amy Hunter named Irish Times/Sport Ireland Sportswoman for October". The Irish Times. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
External links[]
- Emily Hegarty at World Rowing
- Emily Hegarty at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Irish female rowers
- People from Skibbereen
- Olympic rowers of Ireland
- Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Olympic bronze medalists for Ireland
- Irish rowing biography stubs