Irish sailor Eve McMahon claimed bronze at the ILCA World Championships on Saturday after an epic final day in Qingdao, China.
McMahon finished third in the women's ILCA 6 event behind Poland's Agata Barwinska and Frenchwoman Louise Cervera. It's the first time an Irish female sailor has medalled at a senior World Championships.
It's also another massive feather in the cap for 22-year-old McMahon who has two Under-21 World Championships to her name.
Paris Games Olympian McMahon never fell outside the top six places in the 99-boat event in any of the six races sailed. She also avoided any penalties.
"It's a pretty amazing feeling," McMahon said afterwards. "It's all kind of just set in now. I always kind of had a feeling that it close, I never knew exactly the points or anything like that.
"My coach came up to me just as the five-minute gun went and said I needed to be top five in this race, then he drove off! So I was like, 'oh my God there's obviously a chance for a medal here'."
In the ILCA 7 men's event, Carlow's Finn Lynch bounced back from a slow start on Friday with three top-six results including second place in the final race. That moved him back up the leaderboard to end 15th overall.
Team-mate Ewan McMahon - Eve's brother - counted a ninth and a tenth in the 138-boat event to finish 19th overall and just four points behind Lynch.
Meanwhile, on her first senior level world championship, Sienna Wright ended in a mid-fleet position, though a ninth place in her opening race on Friday plus several top-20 results are indicators of her growing form.
