Ireland's Sanita Puspure has retained her gold medal at the World Championships in Austria.

Rowing Ireland’s representation at the Tokyo Olympics swelled again yesterday with Sanita Puspure, Philip Doyle and Ronan Byrne qualifying for the 2020 Games.

Reigning champion Sanita Puspure has booked her place in the semi-finals at the World Rowing Championships.

Ireland’s world champion sculler Sanita Puspure demonstrated the age-old funding quandry faced by elite Irish athletes at the announcement of Kinetica’s major new sponsorship of Rowing Ireland yesterday.

There were red faces at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport following Sanita Puspure’s win in Bulgaria.

Double gold for Ireland was the climax of an historic weekend at the world championships in Bulgaria where Sanita Puspure and the O’Donovan brothers finally reached the top of the podium.

On another superb weekend for Irish rowing, Paul and Gary O’Donovan won gold in the men’s lightweight double sculls at World Rowing Cup 111 in Lucerne, Switzerland yesterday while teammate Sanita Puspure took silver in an incredibly tight race in the women’s single sculls.

The Irish rowing team have claimed two medals at the World Rowing Cup I in Belgrade this morning.

Ireland’s Sanita Puspure came within a fraction of a second of claiming bronze in the women’s single sculls final at the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday.

On a wonderful day in Sarasota in Florida for Skibbereen and Irish rowing, two boats secured gold medals, with the lightweight pair of Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll capping a glorious season with their first world gold, before Paul O’Donovan defended the lightweight single sculls title he claimed in Rotterdam last year.

As the Irish assault in Racice last Friday began, another positive development for Irish rowing was emerging at home; it was announced that Antonio Maurogiovanni had been confirmed as Rowing Ireland’s new High Performance Director, succeeding Morten Espersen who resigned earlier this year.

The 2017 World Rowing Cup series kicks-off in Belgrade tomorrow with most Irish eyes on the O’Donovan brothers, Paul and Gary in the lightweight men’s double sculls. The regatta has attracted rowers from 26 nations, with a number of Rio 2016 Olympic medallists competing.

Irish international rowers didn’t disappoint at last week’s hugely successful Skibbereen Regatta.

Paul and Gary O’Donovan remain the two fastest lightweight scullers in the country. 

More good news for Munster rowing: The Kerry Head of the River returns after a seven-year absence. 

There was a heartbreaking end to Sanita Puspure’s Olympic dream yesterday with the 34-year-old missing out on a place in the single sculls semi-finals by 0.65 of a second.

It was a mixed bag for the Irish on the official opening day of action.

Rowing Ireland chief executive Hamish Adams hopes yesterday’s medal haul at the European Championships in Germany lays the foundation for glory at the Olympic Games in Rio later this year.

There were encouraging Irish performances at the World Rowing Championships yesterday, although the final mood will be determined after the Olympic roll call is finalised this weekend.

It was a day of narrow misses for the Irish crews at the World Rowing Championships, although Olympic qualification remains very attainable for three boats in France’s Lac d’Aiguebelette.

Rowing Olympian Sanita Puspure advanced to the semi-finals of the single sculls on a remarkable day for the Irish at the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France yesterday.

ROWING: European rowing championships bronze medallist Sanita Puspure traded her sculls for a sweep blade last weekend and took on the world’s fastest eight at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston.

Irish rowers enjoyed a stunning day on the waters of the Bosbaan regatta course at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.

Irish Olympian Sanita Puspure won a bronze medal in a thrilling women’s single sculls final at the European Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia yesterday.

Rowing Ireland’s High Performance Director Martin McElroy is convinced Sanita Puspure can build on her Olympic performance as she plots a course to the Rio Games in 2016.

Sanita Puspure has won her C Final in the women's single sculls.

Cork-based rower Sanita Puspure yesterday qualified for the Olympic single sculls C final at Eton Dorney.

Sanita Puspure has won her C semi-final in the women's single sculls at the Olympic Games.

Sanita Puspure is first of the Irish competitors out today in the women's C semi finals in the sculls at the London Olympics.

A DAY of ifs, buts and maybes for Irish rower Sanita Puspure as her Olympic dream came to an end in the toughest of the morning’s single sculls quarter-finals yesterday.

Team Ireland's Sanita Puspure come up just short of qualifying for the semi-finals of the women's single sculls event at the Olympics today.

A little over 12 months ago Ireland’s rowing team manager, Martin McElroy, sat in a plush conference room at the top table of a London Olympic briefing.

Rowing is perhaps the greatest endurance sport of the Olympic Games.

Six years ago Sanita Puspure was working as a shop assistant in Dublin.

Sanita Puspure is the latest athlete to join Ireland’s Olympic Games tilt in the summer.