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Irish Laser Men Now Focus on Paris 2024 After Lynch Fails to Qualify for Tokyo
24th April 2021
Ewan McMahon from Howth YC improved to 48th overall
Credit: Joao Costa Ferreira
Ireland can only look to the future and Paris 2024 - just three years away - for its next chance to compete in the men s singlehanded Laser class following Finn Lynch s failure to qualify Ireland in the Laser event for Tokyo 2020 this week at the Vilamoura International Championships.
Spain and The Netherlands won the two Olympic nation places for Tokyo, with Ireland finishing ninth in the country qualification stakes.
Lynch completed the event in 33rd place overall following a 14th and 42nd places for the day.
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The Irish Government provides funding to Irish Sailing. These funds are exclusively for the benefit of the Performance Pathway. However, this falls short of the amount required to fund the Performance Pathway in order to allow Ireland compete at the highest level. As a result the Performance Pathway programme currently receives around €850,000 per annum from Sport Ireland and €150,000 from sponsorship. A further €2 million per annum is needed to have a major impact at the highest level. The Irish Sailing Foundation was established to bridge the financial gap through securing philanthropic donations, corporate giving and sponsorship.
The vision of the Irish Sailing Foundation is to generate the required financial resources for Ireland to scale-up and execute its world-class sailing programme. Irish Sailing works tirelessly to promote sailing in Ireland and abroad and has been successful in securing funding of 1 million euro from Sport Ireland. However, to compete on a par with